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What was your fasting blood glucose? (full on chat)

PenguinMum said:
@ianpspurs you are on the money about the lamb burgers with apricot etc. 8g carbs x 2 not great. It never occured to me to check the pack. Will make some and freeze in pairs for future. Thanks for the illumination.
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IDK, to me "lamb burgers with apricot" sounds like people snacking in a luxury car! :D

Apricot "lamb burgini"
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@gennepher you poor girl that is more than anyone anywhere would find it easy to deal with. I am very cross on your behalf. I cant think of anything helpful other than you hife outin your wonderful shed....thank goodness you have it! The only comfort I can offer is these things do pass and I hope you can get through. Sending you lots of virtual hugs.
 
gennepher said:
I have had a really bad day.

I was meditating on my bed when suddenly the bed started shaking and the cat leapt up.

It didn’t make sense.

So went outside. My newly laid drains which had been completed last week on Tuesday were being dug up again. They were smashed.

I told the workmen to stop and asked what was happening. I am shaking. The workmen said they were repairing the blocked drains. I explained it had been completed last Tuesday. And why did they not ring the bell or something. Because you wouldn’t hear they said. The bell had been with me in the same room as me meditating so I knew the blue light hadn’t flashed.

I had spent all week cleaning up, replacing plants pots, planting new plants and making that area look good again. I began crying. It was all a mess again.

Workmen tell me to go in and make a cuppa and sit down. And he is trying to usher me in the house telling me to calm down with a cuppa.

I turned round and asked to see their worksheets.

He had to get them. It said customer rang and complained that the drains were still blocked after the work last Tuesday.

So I asked him what customer? He said you. So I said as I am profoundly deaf I cannot hear on the telephone, so it was not possible for me to have rung and made that complaint. I am still crying.

So it’s my neighbour next door, I say, and I start saying a lot more...

I also ask why I was not informed about this., and more. And how can they enter my property without my say so...

But he is ushering me in saying I have nothing to worry about, I won’t have anything to pay and they will clear up when they have repaired the drains.

I pour a small sherry. I am shaking and crying. And I cannot calm down. I don’t understand because this was all done and dusted and completed last Tuesday. And a bunch of strangers descend on my property this morning unexpectedly and start drilling through the concrete...

They haven’t finished, they are coming back tomorrow, specialist parts need to be ordered.

I cannot face it. This is the last straw with everything that has happened recently.

My bg readings are 15.9 now 7pm. I have not been in double figures like that for a very very long time. I have been in the 7’s in the day recently. I am very upset. Was it the two small sherries I had that did that?

I was going to have a relaxing day today in the potting shed, but I had to sit by the window today because of the workmen. So that raised my stress levels.

I sent a text to the number I had, but I got no reply.

I am going out first thing tomorrow and not coming back until the end of the day.

I have had too much stress recently here. I need to put physical distance between me and this place.

>^..^<
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@gennepher how horrible! Where on earth do you live that people can be treated in such an insane way! (I know, none of my business, but good grief.) I've never heard of anything like this. I am so sorry they are doing this to you. I would have been crying and shaking too. And the idea of that workman being so patronizing to you -- that is inexcusable. Cuppa, my foot. I'd have wanted to brain him with a full BOTTLE.

Big hug, and purrs from the KittenCat.
 
HarrisonK said:
I just got back, can't say I want to repeat that journey. People are so loud and impolite, I couldn't face public transport coming back so got a taxi. I was supposed to have a private room for the interview but didn't get one, and then they told me that Wednesday was 'autism awareness day' for two hours. I did point out that they should be aware every day 24/7 unless they wanted to see me running havoc in their building. Anyway, it's over now and whisky is called for :)
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You are very brave. I don't know that I could have managed.

A few months ago I applied for the free mobility bus service here. I filled out the application, my doctor signed it, I mailed it in, and THEN I got a call from the bus company saying I have to go in and be "tested" or "observed" to see exactly what mobility issues I deal with. It's not enough apparently that I did the app and my doctor signed it. They will send a driver to get me, they said, but I must bring a snack and water as they don't have any vending machines (or, apparently, water fountains -- do they have rest rooms?) -- and they can't tell me how long I will be there or how long it will take. Considering that one of my main "issues" on the app is that I have "anxiety" among crowds and in strange places ...

I never have gone. The thought of being picked up by a stranger and driven to a strange place to be alone among strangers for an unspecified length of time and then brought home by another stranger, in who knows what kind of conveyance ....

No way.
 
zauberflote said:
Thanks for hug! Note on correct usage of "y'all" one person is "you", more than one is "y'all", and a pile of persons can be "all y'all" which has been legitimately proposed as a correct translation for New Testament Greek "you" plural! As has simply "y'all". So glad they didn't choose Philadelphia's "youse guys"....
Er....sorry born with 4 cylinders and need 6 to understand your final question... I know I should know it but it's not turning up in data banks. Corrupted no doubt...
FBG 6.2 or 6.3, depending on decimals.
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Ah, yes. Another Southerner. Hey. :)

I used to get tickled watching Tony Blair do press conferences with Bill Clinton and addressing the press as "you guys." I wondered that he had not picked up on "y'all" from Clinton.
 
SaskiaKC said:
@gennepher how horrible! Where on earth do you live that people can be treated in such an insane way! (I know, none of my business, but good grief.) I've never heard of anything like this. I am so sorry they are doing this to you. I would have been crying and shaking too. And the idea of that workman being so patronizing to you -- that is inexcusable. Cuppa, my foot. I'd have wanted to brain him with a full BOTTLE.

Big hug, and purrs from the KittenCat.
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I have no idea how I didn’t clock him one.
I was very close to losing it....
It was safer I did go in...
Thank you for your words.
>^..^<
 
SaskiaKC said:
I never have gone. The thought of being picked up by a stranger and driven to a strange place to be alone among strangers for an unspecified length of time and then brought home by another stranger, in who knows what kind of conveyance ....
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I feel for you. It is so difficult to explain these things to people who do not suffer from them, in my case I get the usual "you don't look autistic" followed by "well, we're all a bit autistic". When you try to explain that you literally cannot do what they are asking you to do, you get met with blank stares or hostility.

@gennepher That is a nightmare, I hope it resolves itself quickly and you can get re-centred
 
SaskiaKC said:
You are very brave. I don't know that I could have managed.

A few months ago I applied for the free mobility bus service here. I filled out the application, my doctor signed it, I mailed it in, and THEN I got a call from the bus company saying I have to go in and be "tested" or "observed" to see exactly what mobility issues I deal with. It's not enough apparently that I did the app and my doctor signed it. They will send a driver to get me, they said, but I must bring a snack and water as they don't have any vending machines (or, apparently, water fountains -- do they have rest rooms?) -- and they can't tell me how long I will be there or how long it will take. Considering that one of my main "issues" on the app is that I have "anxiety" among crowds and in strange places ...

I never have gone. The thought of being picked up by a stranger and driven to a strange place to be alone among strangers for an unspecified length of time and then brought home by another stranger, in who knows what kind of conveyance ....

No way.
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That is utterly rediculous.
I couldn’t have coped with what they were asking of you. And for similarish reasons as you. The rest room availability would have been a big issue (as well as other issues) for me.

We miss out on stuff because of the inflexibility of people who have no problems whatsoever, and we have to fit within the parameters of this total inflexibility which causes us immeasurable stress. It is easier to take the option of losing out.

Sometimes we can’t take that option of losing out, and we have fight the system. But that can cause additional health issues for us or worse.

Hugs for you x
>^..^<
 
Thanks, @gennepher .

My whole decision on whether or not to move to the peaceful small mountain town hangs on issues like these. As stressful as it is living in the city, at least here I can get out and walk to the grocery store, etc., on my own schedule and on my own two feet. Of course, most other places I have to go periodically are a long way away, across town, through horrid traffic, which they would not be in a small town. ...
 
SaskiaKC said:
Thanks, @gennepher .

My whole decision on whether or not to move to the peaceful small mountain town hangs on issues like these. As stressful as it is living in the city, at least here I can get out and walk to the grocery store, etc., on my own schedule and on my own two feet. Of course, most other places I have to go periodically are a long way away, across town, through horrid traffic, which they would not be in a small town. ...
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My dream is a cottage in woodland in the wilds with waterfalls, creatures and birds in the wild and more...
I will have a young man who can do the coppicing of the woods and he makes his money/living that way. He will do odd jobs on my cottage.
Mind you, the only person that will know anything about coppicing would be an elderly wizened gentleman...

It is not very practical is it? I am dependent on my car for my mobility and I am getting older...

But I dream.....

...maybe part or all of my dreams will come true...

...one day I may be pushed too far...and I could find a way for my dream...

>^..^<
 
An elderly wizened gentleman who knows what coppicing is (let alone how to do it!) ...

Wow. He would be a dream come true. :) And I don't necessarily mean a gentleman in the Jane Austen sense, just not a ruffian.

I have an old friend who wants just what you want: a cabin in the woods, with all the deer, bear, birds, and other wild creatures.

I would like what Hilaire Belloc wanted, a "house in the high wood, within a walk of the sea" ... or rather, for me, within a horse ride of the sea ...
 
SaskiaKC said:
An elderly wizened gentleman who knows what coppicing is (let alone how to do it!) ...

Wow. He would be a dream come true. :) And I don't necessarily mean a gentleman in the Jane Austen sense, just not a ruffian.

I have an old friend who wants just what you want: a cabin in the woods, with all the deer, bear, birds, and other wild creatures.

I would like what Hilaire Belloc wanted, a "house in the high wood, within a walk of the sea" ... or rather, for me, within a horse ride of the sea ...
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Brilliant :)
...and to ride your horse along the sea shore among the wild white foam horses of the waves...

>^..^<
 
gennepher said:
I have had a really bad day.

I was meditating on my bed when suddenly the bed started shaking and the cat leapt up.

It didn’t make sense.

So went outside. My newly laid drains which had been completed last week on Tuesday were being dug up again. They were smashed.

I told the workmen to stop and asked what was happening. I am shaking. The workmen said they were repairing the blocked drains. I explained it had been completed last Tuesday. And why did they not ring the bell or something. Because you wouldn’t hear they said. The bell had been with me in the same room as me meditating so I knew the blue light hadn’t flashed.

I had spent all week cleaning up, replacing plants pots, planting new plants and making that area look good again. I began crying. It was all a mess again.

Workmen tell me to go in and make a cuppa and sit down. And he is trying to usher me in the house telling me to calm down with a cuppa.

I turned round and asked to see their worksheets.

He had to get them. It said customer rang and complained that the drains were still blocked after the work last Tuesday.

So I asked him what customer? He said you. So I said as I am profoundly deaf I cannot hear on the telephone, so it was not possible for me to have rung and made that complaint. I am still crying.

So it’s my neighbour next door, I say, and I start saying a lot more...

I also ask why I was not informed about this., and more. And how can they enter my property without my say so...

But he is ushering me in saying I have nothing to worry about, I won’t have anything to pay and they will clear up when they have repaired the drains.

I pour a small sherry. I am shaking and crying. And I cannot calm down. I don’t understand because this was all done and dusted and completed last Tuesday. And a bunch of strangers descend on my property this morning unexpectedly and start drilling through the concrete...

They haven’t finished, they are coming back tomorrow, specialist parts need to be ordered.

I cannot face it. This is the last straw with everything that has happened recently.

My bg readings are 15.9 now 7pm. I have not been in double figures like that for a very very long time. I have been in the 7’s in the day recently. I am very upset. Was it the two small sherries I had that did that?

I was going to have a relaxing day today in the potting shed, but I had to sit by the window today because of the workmen. So that raised my stress levels.

I sent a text to the number I had, but I got no reply.

I am going out first thing tomorrow and not coming back until the end of the day.

I have had too much stress recently here. I need to put physical distance between me and this place.

>^..^<
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Sending hugs gennepher xx
 
Last call ... clocking in at 4.4 after a walk to the grocery store to pick up some Pepcid and Whiskas for the KittenCat and some milk and Atkins bars for me. If I can get 4s and 5s late in the day I'm not worrying too much about my morning FBGs as long as they don't go up into the 7s very often. I did not buy bread today; will try to keep my carbs down to oatmeal and oat cereal if I get a craving, and see if I can lose some more weight. I feel like @jjraak on his desert island -- I have been on this weight plateau long enough!
 
PenguinMum said:
Goodnight everyone. Sleep tight. C
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Sweet dreams, @PenguinMum .

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gennepher said:
I knocked the evening 500mg Metformin off because I was going even lower carbs. My carbs then were 50g to 100g daily. Knocking the Metformin off made no difference to my readings which were double figures nearly all the time.

So, this morning I stopped taking a second Metformin, because I am happy with my 7’s during the day. And I will see how my fbg and other readings are in the next few days/week.

This means I am now down to 1 x 500mg Metformin and 1 x Sitagliptin a day.

Now, to give a true picture with other supplements I take. I take Vitamin E daily to help with the Sjogrens Syndrome with dry eyes and mouth, and I take a good vitamin B complex because of stresses and stuff.

About 3 months ago I had been researching Co Enzyme Q10 (actually I had been researching it all last year but only just decided to take the plunge and take it) and I had some 30mg capsules. Advice I read, said start with 100mg, so I could only start with 90mg. That made a seeable difference in at least two ways. One was my bsg appeared to drop at least one point overall each reading, and the other was finally when I pricked my finger to take the bsg reading a drop of blood actually came out more easily. Before, I had to prick several times, sometimes, before a drop of blood agreed to come out. This was despite warming my hands, rubbing them etc.

There is a third benefit which appears to come from the Q10 and happened when I started taking it. I have peripheral neuropathy in fingers, toes and feet. Absolute agony. Also I have had Raynauds Syndrome since I was a child and this has caused my fingers to go white and totally numb very frequently, and not just in cold weather.

The nightly pains, in bed in particular, from the peripheral neuropathy, subsided very quickly. I couldn’t believe it. For the first time in forever I don’t have the constant varying pains all night in my toes. For years, I would have been happy to lose my toes if it meant no more pain. Not any more. My toes still don’t have proper feeling in them, but they don’t cause me constant pain any more.

My hands and fingers - the Raynauds Syndrome appears to have completely gone. I have not had one instance of my fingers going white and cold and then totally numb maybe for hours on end sometimes, and then agony when the feeling comes back. This happened very regularly before I took the Q10.

I can actually touch ice now in my freezer, I can touch the frozen food without losing total feeling in my fingers where they went to frozen and totally numb. I can touch snow now, and I made a tiny snowman last time we had a little snowfall, with my bare hands. Silly I know, but it made me smile that I could now do this now.

My fingers still go cold, I presume the same as anyone’s fingers do, but they do not go white and totally numb any more.

I attribute the above to the Q10. However, this is my personal experience with it.
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Hi @gennepher

interesting read on Q10.
had seen it earlier in other posts as recommended for certain situations.
nice to see you getting the benefit from it.

do wonder, and you after a year of researching, can probably say, did LCHF make any difference ?
as in is it clearly the Q10..or the effects of low carbing..?
only ask as it seems LCHF, does appear to have a far greater impact across many diseases / symptoms then just simply T2D

For someone who has also reversed a lot of neuropathy in his feet, see @Jim Lahey post, from absolute agony so he says, to full recovery.
marvelous story of grit and pure determination.

I did read ( and my wife had some issues with feet, so i bought for her,) that B12 is poorly absorbed unless in a sub lingual application (under the tongue )..she tried and found some help.
then we ran out of ours and looked to replace, holland & barrett raved about a b12 spray so wife uses that to what she says is good effect..
Myself i use a decent B12 complex daily
seems to help, but i cant be certain without lab reports, but we all do travel in hope when trying to improve our health.

One thing that did help me, was the magnesium tablets and spray for my cramps.
take one each end of day and spray IF needed..so far way more comfortable waking up in mornings.

Might look into the Q10 a little more now you've mentioned the good effects.

If you needed a more detailed look at some vitamins like q10. @Winnie53 , has been a great source of informed opinion on the subject and well able to pull up relevant data seemingly at will.
she Might be another to check out for possible good advice.

Now if only there was a tablet to take for all the tech/building suffering your undergoing...mmhh,
a noted brick through an office window is just SO yesterday, yet a n angry E-Mail, just DOESN'T cut the mustard somehow..Lol

Hope all resolves soon or at least you find a way to manage the situations..


My bedtime reading 5.1..so i end the day below where i started it, which is nice.:)
 
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