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Morning all! In horrible Welsh comp today, got a load of verbal abuse off a 15 year old girl yesterday, which was nice. Let’s see what fresh horror the day has in store...

Still battling my liver with the foot on the floor thing :banghead:
 
Morning teabags. Woke much earlier with higher than wanted bs. Realise I should have put in x2 the Fiasp I did for supper. Also wondering if the current sensor’s worth complaining about so I’ll be sitting down with pen and paper to list cross checking with bloods.
On the happy side, there’s more blooming in the garden, bit by bit. It’s nearly frogspawn time, and I don’t mean tapioca, too. I’m really really hoping that having a knee op and not driving for 6 weeks coincides with warm weather and good things to watch and walk to outdoors.
 
Mel dCP said:
Morning all! In horrible Welsh comp today, got a load of verbal abuse off a 15 year old girl yesterday, which was nice. Let’s see what fresh horror the day has in store...

Still battling my liver with the foot on the floor thing :banghead:
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That is why I could never be a teacher.....there would have been a blazing row lol
 
One for Mel
David Tenant and Catherine Tate in the classroom
 
At least you can leave the rough stuff and refuse to do it again Mel! Pennies willing. Wish the whole shebang were better for the young and their teachers x
 
Greeting fellow colanders looks like we are having a good day BG wise, well except me. Since i cam back fro holiday last week apart from 1 wee blip i have been pretty well behaved.

Good BG all day yesterday until around 9pm. Quick Libre check and 4.1 and going down. OK so had a biscuit to keep me going. 20 mins later Libre now 3.2 and going down, finger check said 3.6. Cup of coffee with 2 sugars should do the trick, it usually does. NO. 5 mins later Libre now at 2.5 and going down, finger check now at 2.8 OOOOPS. Really feeling the hypo now so coffee with 6 sugars, mmmmm lovely along with a biccie. 20 mins later feeling better but still only at 4.2 on finger check, thought it would have been much higher.

Even 1.5 hours later its only at 6.1, so off to bed. Woke up at 1.30 to a 10.6 and going up so 3 units to bring me down. Woke at 6.30 to a lovely 14.6, the sugar revenge.

Big correction dose this morning and back to normal.

Think i have really psyched myself up now for getting my pump and hopefully avoiding lots of these silly highs and lows.

Biggest problem I have is when I go below 3 I really start to panic and maybe tend to overdo the correction. Or do I ?. I read that some of you guys only take a few glucotabs/jelly babies etc are back to normal. I can eat a whole packet of mini jelly beans and that makes no difference to my BG in the short term.

Ah well, we are all different
 
@smc4761 The question is what caused the low? was it a post meal low where you've jabbed the right dose, had the meal and then gone low, probably because the carbs haven't kicked in but the insulin had? then to correct that sort of low takes a good dollop of fast carbs to counter act the already actively working IOB, then maybe what you think is the over-correct is in fact the carbs that were in the meal? Then again you may well have just over compensated but with out knowing everything is difficult to say.

On Sundays, I usually have a cooked breakfast and skip lunch so by mid afternoon I've no IOB and breakfast carbs/fat and protein have all but gone, if I drop a bit low I know there's no need to panic, it's not going to drop significantly any time soon and I can take 1 glucotab to keep me bumbling along if I'm not doing anything too strenuous.
 
smc4761 said:
Think i have really psyched myself up now for getting my pump and hopefully avoiding lots of these silly highs and lows.

Biggest problem I have is when I go below 3 I really start to panic and maybe tend to overdo the correction. Or do I ?. I read that some of you guys only take a few glucotabs/jelly babies etc are back to normal. I can eat a whole packet of mini jelly beans and that makes no difference to my BG in the short term.

Ah well, we are all different
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You will still get the silly highs and lows with the pump.....I haven't had many highs and only a few lows (so far :))
4 or 5 jelly babies usually sorts my lows out with 20 mins
 
smc4761 said:
Greeting fellow colanders looks like we are having a good day BG wise, well except me. Since i cam back fro holiday last week apart from 1 wee blip i have been pretty well behaved.

Good BG all day yesterday until around 9pm. Quick Libre check and 4.1 and going down. OK so had a biscuit to keep me going. 20 mins later Libre now 3.2 and going down, finger check said 3.6. Cup of coffee with 2 sugars should do the trick, it usually does. NO. 5 mins later Libre now at 2.5 and going down, finger check now at 2.8 OOOOPS. Really feeling the hypo now so coffee with 6 sugars, mmmmm lovely along with a biccie. 20 mins later feeling better but still only at 4.2 on finger check, thought it would have been much higher.

Even 1.5 hours later its only at 6.1, so off to bed. Woke up at 1.30 to a 10.6 and going up so 3 units to bring me down. Woke at 6.30 to a lovely 14.6, the sugar revenge.

Big correction dose this morning and back to normal.

Think i have really psyched myself up now for getting my pump and hopefully avoiding lots of these silly highs and lows.

Biggest problem I have is when I go below 3 I really start to panic and maybe tend to overdo the correction. Or do I ?. I read that some of you guys only take a few glucotabs/jelly babies etc are back to normal. I can eat a whole packet of mini jelly beans and that makes no difference to my BG in the short term.

Ah well, we are all different
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I find my digestion sluggish after 7pm, and often completely unresponsive at night. Could be the same for you? My hypo recovery time has been well over 30 minutes for the past few years, although it didn't used to take so long.

I used to need a good 20g CHO to recover from a hypo, but now I'm keto, it usually only takes one or two gluco tabs. So I think maybe it all depends on what your body is used to. As well as other things, like whether the moon is in Aquarius.
 
So after a week, yes a week, of pretty perfect levels. (For the first time ever) Between 4.5 and 8 and mainly 5s!! No real peaks and definitely no hypos. Last night I started to go low. This morning 3 lows and now of course high. Nothing done differently. You couldn’t make it up!
Apart from the fact I was injecting insulin I had begun to think I was cured . Down to earth with a bump!
 
Lots of lows for people today: I find I need less insulin when the weather’s warmer and the blood vessels expand. Except for last night, which was a daft one.
 
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smc4761 said:
Greeting fellow colanders looks like we are having a good day BG wise, well except me. Since i cam back fro holiday last week apart from 1 wee blip i have been pretty well behaved.

Good BG all day yesterday until around 9pm. Quick Libre check and 4.1 and going down. OK so had a biscuit to keep me going. 20 mins later Libre now 3.2 and going down, finger check said 3.6. Cup of coffee with 2 sugars should do the trick, it usually does. NO. 5 mins later Libre now at 2.5 and going down, finger check now at 2.8 OOOOPS. Really feeling the hypo now so coffee with 6 sugars, mmmmm lovely along with a biccie. 20 mins later feeling better but still only at 4.2 on finger check, thought it would have been much higher.

Even 1.5 hours later its only at 6.1, so off to bed. Woke up at 1.30 to a 10.6 and going up so 3 units to bring me down. Woke at 6.30 to a lovely 14.6, the sugar revenge.

Big correction dose this morning and back to normal.

Think i have really psyched myself up now for getting my pump and hopefully avoiding lots of these silly highs and lows.

Biggest problem I have is when I go below 3 I really start to panic and maybe tend to overdo the correction. Or do I ?. I read that some of you guys only take a few glucotabs/jelly babies etc are back to normal. I can eat a whole packet of mini jelly beans and that makes no difference to my BG in the short term.

Ah well, we are all different
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I think it’s mainly lower carb folk who need just small amounts of glucose - we tend to have much less insulin (both basal and bolus) on board that needs soaking up - plus sensitivity to carbs is massively increased after doing it for a while. I used to need the full 15g plus a second lot at the very least for a hypo when eating the recommended high carb, low fat diet. Now two dextrose tabs and turning off the pump for half an hour sorts most things - I rarely drop below 3mmol these days. The alarm on my watch buzzes at 3.8mmol, which gives me time to fix the issue. Again, less insulin in my body means that hypos happen very slowly, I don’t get sudden drops.
 
slip said:
@smc4761 The question is what caused the low? was it a post meal low where you've jabbed the right dose, had the meal and then gone low, probably because the carbs haven't kicked in but the insulin had? then to correct that sort of low takes a good dollop of fast carbs to counter act the already actively working IOB, then maybe what you think is the over-correct is in fact the carbs that were in the meal? Then again you may well have just over compensated but with out knowing everything is difficult to say.

On Sundays, I usually have a cooked breakfast and skip lunch so by mid afternoon I've no IOB and breakfast carbs/fat and protein have all but gone, if I drop a bit low I know there's no need to panic, it's not going to drop significantly any time soon and I can take 1 glucotab to keep me bumbling along if I'm not doing anything too strenuous.
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@slip Think it was me just trying to behave and try to stay as close to the "line" as possible. As I am sure you know we can eat same things at same time, take same insulin,some days it perfect others, high or low. There is no exact science to this Type 1 nonsense. I put it down to wearing red polka dot boxers:):):)
 
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