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

[DJC3]

I did think as much after it all they are better off at home. I hope the other dog is coping. Thanks for asking but I have macular edema/retinal vein occlusion in my right eye. I have lost quite a bit of sight and hopefully the course of injections I start tomorrow will prevent it getting worse. Its administered by the consultant into the white part after hopefully some good anaesthetic. Some on the forum have had it done and it helped. Luckily the other eye is good because my biggest fear is being unable to drive.

Oh dear, I’m sorry to hear that. The treatment sounds a bit unpleasant and stressful, I’m keeping my fingers crossed for a good result for you. Will you know straight away if it’s helped or do you have to go back for them to check?

 

[Shas3]

The office iftaar party was good but the carb and sugar loaded food scared ... sneaked out after a bite of vegetable fritter (little batter).... on the other hand there was a ‘best dressed’ award and well... a fabulous kurta from this fabulous chain in India called FabIndia paired with dark blue Levis and a hand embroidered Kashmiri vest did the magic . Yours Truly




I am going to bed with my blood sugar around 6.5... hopefully it will be below 6 in the morning.. continuing the recent trend !!! Fingers crossed

 

[dunelm]

5.8 this morning - happy with anything in the 5s at the moment though.
@dunelm you could write a book, your posts are so entertaining, I’m really getting the atmosphere of your wonderful sounding holiday. I loved the fact that all evidence of the strawberry lolly had to be hidden before returning to base camp but I don’t expect you fooled anyone, it’s sort of expected from grandads. Food sounds fab too.
@Krystyna23040 good luck with the retinopathy check today.
@Bildad and @poemagraphic I agree there sometimes seems no rhyme or reason for the readings. The thing that irritates me is how much I allow it to affect my mood for the day. Wish I could be a bit more zen and accepting of its vagaries.

Thank you, we are having a great time of it. Someone has discovered that the TV has NetFlix on it and it is now in the control of the Peppa Pig collective.

 

[dunelm]

The office iftaar party was good but the carb and sugar loaded food scared ... sneaked out after a bite of vegetable fritter (little batter).... on the other hand there was a ‘best dressed’ award and well... a fabulous kurta from this fabulous chain in India called FabIndia paired with dark blue Levis and a hand embroidered Kashmiri vest did the magic . Yours Truly

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I am going to bed with my blood sugar around 6.5... hopefully it will be below 6 in the morning.. continuing the recent trend !!! Fingers crossed

Great outfit, like the idea of the dark blue jeans with the pale Kurta and vest.

 

[dunelm]

Morning all. 5.5 from my meter today just on the outside edge of personal target zone. @dunelm the holiday sounds ideal and is reflected in well mannered fbg readings. @Krystyna23040 hope retinal scanning goes well and your results letter says all clear. Some members seem to feel the well being aspect of managing this condition does seem to have a considerable impact on bg levels. @HarrisonK your day sounds as though it should compliment your great start. @Freema, 3 generations at the gym sounds about perfect to me - what a great idea. I didn't have a bucket list but may start one now with that.

@ianpspurs - I had no idea why the fbg readings are so well mannered - there have been significantly more carbs involved than usual but they do play a very minor roll in the overall plan and absolutely no bread, liquid or otherwise.

 

[Shas3]

Great outfit, like the idea of the dark blue jeans with the pale Kurta and vest.

Thanks

 

[Krystyna23040]

Thank goodness you asked for the test Krystyna...it is better to know & get it addressed...will be thinking of you next week...good luck

You are so right - it is much better to know and get it addressed.

 

[dunelm]

agree with the others @dunelm
deffo getting a feel for that holiday..can almost taste that strawberry Calippo..
(orange used to be my fav )
have fun in da hot sun...

and i suppose the MOOD V BG, makes sense.

i know when my GB's are lowering OR high.
that affects my mood..as does the stressing and anxiety about NOTHING at all...
( now add in stressing that you'll stress about the numbers in the morning... )

Perfect combo for a BG Storm i'd say.
Throw in a bad nights sleep, as well..and it's a BG Tornado.:***:

Today FBG 6.6.....mmmhhh

tested after i had to run to work
(motorcycle...so no traffic stress, just a big cheesy grin at those stuck in the jams...Mmwwhhhaaahaha )

so was it THAT early start..?
Was it the vodka N tonic last night...?
The hefty meal early part of the evening, slowly spiking late on..?

My moneys on the sweetener*...usually hermesetas,
but got NONE
so using the kitchen stores Canderel...

*probably not, but who wants to go straight to the 'good' stuff when banishing foods items..
** yes i'm aware Vodka is not a food item, but, please... don't take away the magic..

Yes, it does seem that mood is a factor in lots of things in life. Some things in life do stress folk out. For some , they have the good fortune to inherit a castle but spend the rest of their lives worrying about the mildew in the bathroom.

Nothing better for de-stressing than riding a motorcycle - and what fun filtering through traffic, especially if other road users are courteous (rather than jealous).

 

[Krystyna23040]

I gave a like rather than a hug because you seem relatively calm about what will be done to you and sure about what needs to be done by you. Best wishes and thinking of you.

Its really strange that I do feel calm - it may be because I feel feel more in control of what is happening because I prompted the doctor to do the tests that I am not experiencing the usual fear of the injection into the eye.

The hospital rang when I got home to book the other 2 injections and to tell me that the doctor is now only going to inject one eye because the other eye isn't bad enough to do and hasn't met the criteria for an injection, especially as each injection is £600 a time. I will talk to the doctor about this on Monday.

Last year one of my clients did a wing walk for a special chair (I think it cost £11K) which makes it more comfortable for the staff who do the injections and also its is much better for the patients. I did do my bit for the fund raising effort so, hopefully, will be one of the lucky ones to use the chair.

 

[PenguinMum]

Its really strange that I do feel calm - it may be because I feel feel more in control of what is happening because I prompted the doctor to do the tests that I am not experiencing the usual fear of the injection into the eye.

The hospital rang when I got home to book the other 2 injections and to tell me that the doctor is now only going to inject one eye because the other eye isn't bad enough to do and hasn't met the criteria for an injection, especially as each injection is £600 a time. I will talk to the doctor about this on Monday.

Last year one of my clients did a wing walk for a special chair (I think it cost £11K) which makes it more comfortable for the staff who do the injections and also its is much better for the patients. I did do my bit for the fund raising effort so, hopefully, will be one of the lucky ones to use the chair.

Hi Krystyna good that you asked and are getting the treatment you need. I am having my first of three antiVEGF injection early tomorrow. I was told they would rescan after 3 to see if I need more. How long have you been having the injections and how are you afterwards? Wishing you all the best for Monday.

 

[ianpspurs]

Hi Krystyna good that you asked and are getting the treatment you need. I am having my first of three antiVEGF injection early tomorrow. I was told they would rescan after 3 to see if I need more. How long have you been having the injections and how are you afterwards? Wishing you all the best for Monday.

I forgot to wish you all the best for tomorrow @PenguinMum so I'll take this opportunity.

 

[PenguinMum]

I forgot to wish you all the best for tomorrow @PenguinMum so I'll take this opportunity.

Thanks Ian. I am just keen to get on with it now!

 

[poemagraphic]

good morning all

was 5.2 yesterday a couple of hours after I woke up because I forgot to test straight away, 4.6 today

it actually looks to be dry so far here finally after such a lot of rain I'm hoping that we will get some good drying so we can get some grass cut, Mum's soil is quite heavy with quite a bit of clay so it takes ages for her garden to dry out whereas ours is much dryer and sandier so it dries more quickly.

mr. gee is thinking of taking off the top of a couple of small trees which are getting too tall, I will stand by and probably do some strimming too if it's dry enough

Hope everything goes well tomorrow @PenguinMum
Hugs for you and good wishes for your mum's recovery @dogslife
My thoughts are with your family @DJC3 so hard on both ends of what happened, hope everyone will be ok going forward.

Nice HDR work @poemagraphic so often HDR is so obviously overdone

Hope your day treats you kindly everyone

Hi Gee
Thank you for you comment re. HDR. You are so right. It is tempting at times to 'beef it up'... too much saturation and a host of other tweaks leave the photograph looking anything but natural.

The eye is able to compensate for dark shadows and brightly lite aeras however most cameras have such a small range of 'what it can see unless you change the exposure (the time you let it look and absorb the light). then without a light metre you just guess what you think it can do in the seconds you give it.

So a shot overexposed and one normal with another at underexposed layered on top of each other (a bit like placing transparent slides on top of each other) and you get more of what the eye can see and three times what the camera can combined into one shot with the dark shadows lighter and the blown out windows as the bright sunshine does it shiny thing, all nicely exposed to see the kind of detail that the human eye can.

I expect you already know that G this just a way to explain to anyone else in simple terms what we are talking about lol

I may have gone a slight 'Hulk' hue seeing your numbers this morning Well done! Good job no one has a camera on me.
Po

 

[poemagraphic]

good morning all

was 5.2 yesterday a couple of hours after I woke up because I forgot to test straight away, 4.6 today

it actually looks to be dry so far here finally after such a lot of rain I'm hoping that we will get some good drying so we can get some grass cut, Mum's soil is quite heavy with quite a bit of clay so it takes ages for her garden to dry out whereas ours is much dryer and sandier so it dries more quickly.

mr. gee is thinking of taking off the top of a couple of small trees which are getting too tall, I will stand by and probably do some strimming too if it's dry enough

Hope everything goes well tomorrow @PenguinMum
Hugs for you and good wishes for your mum's recovery @dogslife
My thoughts are with your family @DJC3 so hard on both ends of what happened, hope everyone will be ok going forward.

Nice HDR work @poemagraphic so often HDR is so obviously overdone

Hope your day treats you kindly everyone

I keep meaning to mention your results in your signature. That is a very impressive set of numbers and a testament to what 'putting your mind to it' can do. Great achivement!

 

[poemagraphic]

The office iftaar party was good but the carb and sugar loaded food scared ... sneaked out after a bite of vegetable fritter (little batter).... on the other hand there was a ‘best dressed’ award and well... a fabulous kurta from this fabulous chain in India called FabIndia paired with dark blue Levis and a hand embroidered Kashmiri vest did the magic . Yours Truly

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I am going to bed with my blood sugar around 6.5... hopefully it will be below 6 in the morning.. continuing the recent trend !!! Fingers crossed

Great shot. Nicely composed... It looks like you have a wonderful aura. Om Shanti Om
Po

 

[poemagraphic]

So yesterday had such a lovely relaxing and tranquil day at Sheringham Park walking through the Rhodedendroms. Carbs 22g. Blood sugars in the 4s and 5s all day - even after eating. 4.8 before bed. All perfect.

Went to bed and suddenly remembered that I have retinal screening at the hospital. My relaxed and tranquil state shattered - couldn't sleep for ages. 6.1 this morning. So @ianpspurs I do think that you were right when you saw a link between my lower fbs and level of tranquillity. Definitely something to work on.

I am certain that for me, meditation works wonders. I am convinced that I would not have had the results I have had in the last couple of months without it. I bath in a sea of tranquillity
Po

 

[Shas3]

Great shot. Nicely composed... It looks like you have a wonderful aura. Om Shanti Om
Po

Thanks
Shanti Om

 

[Krystyna23040]

Hi Krystyna good that you asked and are getting the treatment you need. I am having my first of three antiVEGF injection early tomorrow. I was told they would rescan after 3 to see if I need more. How long have you been having the injections and how are you afterwards? Wishing you all the best for Monday.

Hi PenguinMum
I had my 3 injections in my left eye over 3 years ago. I haven't had to have any since. The right eye is the one they are now going to inject for the first time.

Actually - although I was really scared of the injections when I had them - they are not that bad because they do use drops to numb the eye prior to having the injections. I found that I felt OK afterwards. Vision was a bit funny for a few hours and I was rather stupid and went back to work because I didn't want to let clients down. This time I will be more sensible.

Hope all goes well tomorrow.

 

[Krystyna23040]

I am certain that for me, meditation works wonders. I am convinced that I would not have had the results I have had in the last couple of months without it. I bath in a sea of tranquillity
Po

Actually - meditation is definitely something I need to look into. Do you have any tips for a complete beginner.

 

[PenguinMum]

Hi PenguinMum
I had my 3 injections in my left eye over 3 years ago. I haven't had to have any since. The right eye is the one they are now going to inject for the first time.

Actually - although I was really scared of the injections when I had them - they are not that bad because they do use drops to numb the eye prior to having the injections. I found that I felt OK afterwards. Vision was a bit funny for a few hours and I was rather stupid and went back to work because I didn't want to let clients down. This time I will be more sensible.

Hope all goes well tomorrow.

Hi Krystyna
Thanks for getting back to me with such helpful info. Best wishes.