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kev-w said:
:p funnily enough I've tried mending an old singer m/c earlier this year, but unsuccessfully I'm afraid, I bought a Stussy t-shirt from E-bay and it wears like a mini skirt so I was going to take it up, but anyway :)

Hypo again, 2.8 on the Libre & 3.5 on a finger stick but I'm ok, a little headache waiting to start and a medium porridge waiting to be eaten then my little to take to school and windows to clean.

Have a good day y'all :)
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Commiserations!
 
Knikki said:
Annoyed and yep this time of the morning.
Out last night had curry, i also have download the carb count details from Bertie online.
So was 6.8 calculated about 80 grams carb so 1 for 10 in goes 8.
Fine.
Hour later up at 12.5, ok expected that, dump another 4 in, Novo Rapid.
10pm dropped to 3.5, did not expect that, so couple of Jaffa cakes and in with the lantus.

This morning.

Etch A Sketch is at 15.9 going up. Gggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!

8 rapid ( don't care if it crashed me that's what i want now) plus the rest of the lantus.

It is baking hot in this room so that might not be helping. Or this carb count last night was seriously wrong, if that's the case why it drop so low last night?

Or this whole carb counting thing from a list is less use than me using Mk1 eye ball, adding how old I am divided by the distance to the moon and adding 5 to get the dose i need.

Sorry for the ar5eness of this just royally hacked of at the moment.

So bad I've crash my SPV in disgust.
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Patience is a virtue but also can hold the lid on a pressure cooker too long !! I know the temptation to thump the high BSLS down to subzero ! But the see-saw is not fun to be on. Even on a pump the boluses are the same, do you abide by the suggested bolus or override it ?
 
kitedoc said:
Patience is a virtue but also can hold the lid on a pressure cooker too long !! I know the temptation to thump the high BSLS down to subzero ! But the see-saw is not fun to be on. Even on a pump the boluses are the same, do you abide by the suggested bolus or override it ?
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Suggested bolus??? I did know there was one TBH but as I'm not on a pump i simply take a guess and shove some in.
Anyway breakfast in a minute so will recalculate after i have eaten and will probably stick some more in, maybe.
 
Good morning all. Well 2.8 hypo in the middle of the night. Thought "I wont eat the fridge" So 4 jelly babies and a crunchie. Woke this morning with a 19.8 DOH! Big correction dose with breakfast and am now running at 14.9 with a trending down arrow. Oh happy days :)
 
Morning all, first, my condolences Sue - take it easy and take care do whats important to you right now and sod everything else.

Funny old day yesterday, BG was hovering about normal all day until it came to a family photo shoot in the evening and out the blue I dropped to a 2.3, no problems just odd! anyway went to bed on a good number and woke up on an even better number.

Off to see an osteopath after work, I've had a 'bad' back for ages but now my sciatic nerve is giving me grief, walking like a cross between John Wane and Quasimodo!
 
porl69 said:
probably shouldn't have had the jelly babies as well
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ummmmmm...........probably should have just had the jelly babies and not the Crunchie! how many carbs per jelly baby? I don't do jelly babies, glucotabs 4g each and you won't want any more than you need! :rolleyes:
 
Do we think BG can drop via the placebo effect? Turns out I didn't give Novorapid 3.5u as I thought I did, but unsure whether I sleepily gave myself some extra Levemir by mistake as my levemir isn't in a half unit pen! At work now so no way to check. But I definitely had a drop before I ate breakfast
 
slip said:
ummmmmm...........probably should have just had the jelly babies and not the Crunchie! how many carbs per jelly baby? I don't do jelly babies, glucotabs 4g each and you won't want any more than you need! :rolleyes:
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I count them as 4g each. They are usually enough for me BUT I wanted a long lasting effect as well. Sure got that lol
Running at 9.9 with a downward trend arrow, so am getting back to normal. Fiasp seems to be acting like NovoSluggish today
 
kev-w said:
:p funnily enough I've tried mending an old singer m/c earlier this year, but unsuccessfully I'm afraid, I bought a Stussy t-shirt from E-bay and it wears like a mini skirt so I was going to take it up, but anyway :)
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Now I have an image of you in a mini skirt cleaning windows **SHUDDERS** I hope the stress of that doesn't put my bloods up lol - sorry @kev-w :)
 
helensaramay said:
I hope that arrow is levelling out at the right values now.
Your comment reminds me of something I've been meaning to ask.
I have read a few people mentioning they are waiting for their BG to come down before eating. I am too usually impatient (and hungry) to do this but wonder if my/our approach of big correction and eating is usual and/or should be avoided.
I would be interested how others react at mealtime when they realise their BG is very high (whatever that is).
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I wouldn't be able to wait. I start work at 8.30 and don't get up until 7! I have always given myself extra bolus for what I will be eating for breakfast OR whatever time of day I am high. After 46 years I can't see me changing any time soon lol. BUT agree with you on seeing what other people do
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Forgot to mention level at 4.4
 
Knikki said:
Suggested bolus??? I did know there was one TBH but as I'm not on a pump i simply take a guess and shove some in.
Anyway breakfast in a minute so will recalculate after i have eaten and will probably stick some more in, maybe.
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Apologies. With the pump and settings such as insulin:carb ratio and insulin sensitivity one can enter a carb amount for a meal ( or cake) and a bolus dose is calculated. which I can either enter as is or alter if desired.
If the bsl only is entered a correction bolus is given. The calculations are not prefect but they can be adjusted for different times of the day by having different I:C and insulin sensitivity setting for day, evening night etc. Takes some of the guess work out.
As well the basal can be adjusted up or down for stress etc. Hope that clarifies things !
 
Afternoon all! Very late on parade today. Had a very mild (3.9) hypo at bedtime, understandable give the mahoosive-for-me 5.5u correction dose I took last night. A couple of dex tabs sorted that out, and I woke up at eightish with a 7.6. Six corrections so far today! So back to trickling in small doses all day, keeping a steady level of 2u Novorapid on board. Seem to be running in the 8s no matter what I do so far today. V frustrating. Resisting the urge to “rage bolus” just to bring it into line...

Seriously considering switching back to the Lantus I have in my fridge and seeing if I can get better results with that, but then I remember the night hypos, leg muscle pains and stinging injections and think again.
 
helensaramay said:
I hope that arrow is levelling out at the right values now.
Your comment reminds me of something I've been meaning to ask.
I have read a few people mentioning they are waiting for their BG to come down before eating. I am too usually impatient (and hungry) to do this but wonder if my/our approach of big correction and eating is usual and/or should be avoided.
I would be interested how others react at mealtime when they realise their BG is very high (whatever that is).
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i only ever correct at meal times this is what consultant told me so if high i give extra bolus with meal depending on how high it is i may do half b4 meal and half after meal:)
 
karen8967 said:
i only ever correct at meal times this is what consultant told me so if high i give extra bolus with meal depending on how high it is i may do half b4 meal and half after meal:)
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That’s what I was taught on the DAFNE course - but I found I’d then be spending hours really high, waiting for the next time-slot to correct. I understand their fears regarding stacking insulin, which is why they recommend it.
 
helensaramay said:
I hope that arrow is levelling out at the right values now.
Your comment reminds me of something I've been meaning to ask.
I have read a few people mentioning they are waiting for their BG to come down before eating. I am too usually impatient (and hungry) to do this but wonder if my/our approach of big correction and eating is usual and/or should be avoided.
I would be interested how others react at mealtime when they realise their BG is very high (whatever that is).
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I was told the same as @karen8967 so that's what I always did until recently. I can't remember where but on a thread somewhere here people were talking about correction doses at times other than pre-meals. I spoke with my DSN and with her agreement and 'extreme caution' ;) I now sometimes correct independently of meals. I'm most likely to do it when I've bolused too little expecting to exercise which then hasn't happened, when I sky-rocket after a hypo, or very occasionally when I'm too high before bed.
 
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