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Good morning y'all :) my Libre said low on waking but a finger stick said 4.1 and I feel ok, the sensor's got 48 hours left, pre bolussing from a red line's a little counter intuitive but I've risen to 5.7 since so I'm good to eat :)

World diabetes day tomorrow....
 
Bore da from Rhondda...

Went to bed on a 5.9, woke up on a 4.1 - same ~2mmol drop overnight for the past couple of nights, so I think it’s time to adjust my overnight basal. Had a single 3g dextrose tab and turned the insulin off for an hour.

My car needs a new fuel pump, so the husband had kindly lent me his, and he’s using his motorbike to go to work. It’s an ancient Nissan Micra automatic, so I feel like I’m driving a roller skate! And my left foot feels quite redundant... it’s quite good fun to drive, but not quite as amusing as the Reliant Robin we had a couple of years ago. That was hilarious :D
 
helensaramay said:
Noooooo. A pie has a lid.
A quiche is an omelette flan.
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Oooh now that could cause problems lol. My misses makes cheese and potato pie....which is just mashed potato with cheese mashed into it! We have heated debates about it often lol
 
helensaramay said:
Bonjour de Bruxelles a mes colanders

There was me thinking tea of goats cheese and chia seed salad followed by Belgian chocolate in my hotel room whilst doing final meeting preparations would be a productive and cheap option.
I guess it was. Unfortunately, it did not prepare me for a good night's sleep as my BG rose and rose and rose.
Would have been a good time for Libring but alas I am only partially wired today.
And that wiring is wrapped around my thigh as I chose to wear a dress today (gotta look smart for customers). Last night, as I wandered through the airport, I discovered my wrapping was not tight enough as I could feel my pump slipping. Thankfully, I averted a major International incident but not without a lot of public fidgeting.
Strap is tighter today so pump shouldn't slip - I may lose feeling in my leg because it is too tight but the pump is not going to slip.
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As long as it all looks good on the outside!
 
Morning everyone,

Not very exciting blood sugar night, it behaved reasonably well, after a week of causing trouble.

I think maybe my diabetes gremlin is a bit of an attention seeker, if I start taking him for granted, he starts misbehaving.
 
helensaramay said:
I don't understand why you would call some mash potato a pie. It is just mashed potato with cheese. I guess it is like shepherd's pie with no shepherd.
My partner also has a problem with pies with no pastry bottom or sides, just a bit of pastry plonked on the top - he calls them "stew with a lid". They are not pies.
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My menfolk are also pie purists :D But they still happily trough the very beefy “stew with a lid” that our 79 year old friend makes for them. I think she feels sorry for them because I don’t eat meat, and assumes they don’t ever get any :rolleyes:
 
And good morning all. Funeral yesterday so didn't make an appearance...
According to my Libre I shouldn't be here....LO from midnight untill 6am-----compression low??? even thou my sensor is on the inside of my arm. Finger prick said 4.4 - and calibrated Xdrip+ with that
helensaramay said:
I don't understand why you would call some mash potato a pie. It is just mashed potato with cheese. I guess it is like shepherd's pie with no shepherd.
My partner also has a problem with pies with no pastry bottom or sides, just a bit of pastry plonked on the top - he calls them "stew with a lid". They are not pies.
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I am with you on that lol....And she is a Shepherd as well....well Shephard - sorta close lol. A pie should be crust all around - well in my eyes it should be-------this could get interesting :hilarious::hilarious:
 
Timostags said:
she said must be wrong because she tells people it should be 10:1)
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As a starting point for all newly diagnosed this is right but not for a diabetic who had lived with it, your right to insist on showing her your libre info and explaining about carbs eaten etc.
 
Ugh. The horrible Jeremy Vine show is on and they’re talking about these massively sugary “freakshake” milkshakes with 39 teaspoons of sugar in them. “If I drink one, will it jolt me into diabetes?” he says. Cue a massive amount of shouting at the telly with some creative portmanteau swearwords :mad::banghead:
 
Mel dCP said:
Ugh. The horrible Jeremy Vine show is on and they’re talking about these massively sugary “freakshake” milkshakes with 39 teaspoons of sugar in them. “If I drink one, will it jolt me into diabetes?” he says. Cue a massive amount of shouting at the telly with some creative portmanteau swearwords :mad::banghead:
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I swore about it on Facething when I saw it, a milkshake to me is a small drop of vanilla essence and half a pint of semi skim milk blitzed in a blender and that'd be a rarity.
 
My definition of a milk shake is a cup of coffee then 20 minutes on a trampoline..........
I considered a much ruder definition but thought better of it!!!
 
Buenos tardes amigos
Not been on for a few days because of how busy I've been.
Sunday was mega.....spent the morning making reindeer then watched the marvellous Manchester derby where we thrashed the reds then had a perfect roast followed closely by Doctor Who.

Bloods have been tickety boo too.

Tony
 
kev-w said:
Good morning y'all :) my Libre said low on waking but a finger stick said 4.1 and I feel ok, the sensor's got 48 hours left, pre bolussing from a red line's a little counter intuitive but I've risen to 5.7 since so I'm good to eat :)
World diabetes day tomorrow....
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Snap @kev-w I felt OK too.Went to the vet this morning coz I've been feeling continually tired, hot, flushy, cold, shivery and also getting fat. So he drained me of an armful of blood, told me to go back in a week for the results or plan B and by the way he said your last Hb1Ac was 5.8%. I thought that was OK. Went and had a hair cut and skipped home
 
Mel dCP said:
Ugh. The horrible Jeremy Vine show is on and they’re talking about these massively sugary “freakshake” milkshakes with 39 teaspoons of sugar in them. “If I drink one, will it jolt me into diabetes?” he says. Cue a massive amount of shouting at the telly with some creative portmanteau swearwords :mad::banghead:
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@Mel dCP that'll teach you to watch rubbish... sorry I find the programme awful
 
SueJB said:
@Mel dCP that'll teach you to watch rubbish... sorry I find the programme awful
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slip said:
I was going to say thats what you get for watching day time TV!
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I absolutely hate it. Jeremy Vine makes my teeth itch. Unfortunately my husband likes/needs to have it on in the background as he gets ready for work, routine and ingrained habit since he had his brain injury have meant that he has to do things by rote. We quite liked it when it was the Wright Stuff, but it’s just like having the Daily Hate Mail beamed into the living room now. Tried switching back to Radio 4 but he got a bit disoriented regarding the time, and was late for work. On the plus side, I’ve vastly expanded my repertoire of imaginative swearing... This is where working from home in a small, open plan house fails.
 
karen8967 said:
Its a pain isnt it japes
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This is my first descent into winter since being on insulin, so I'm being ultra-careful as I monitor it all. But, yes, definitely a pain and the amount of head-space the diet/exercise/insulin calculations seem to be occupying at the moment is huge!
 
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