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

Well I fell off the wagon yesterday, gotta pick myself up and carry on. Started with a hypo yesterday afternoon, I’m thinking the extra energy use and exertion Saturday may have been involved. Then I listened to the carers who insisted shakes weren’t enough I needed to have some food, only option was pizza, took some insulin and had about 5 slices. Blood sugars went up to about 9 (I was surprised it wasn’t 20s) and stayed high all night, until 5 am when I was 4.2 and they insisted on a glass of coke to bring me back up, hit 9 again. At 7am I was 6.9.

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ziggy_w said:
Good morning all.

Fasting blood sugars were 4.7 today.

@DJC3 -- No vacation planned unfortunately, but we spend two days in Paris in July and visited a concert by Melody Gardot. Incredible experience and really enjoyed it.

@ianpspurs -- Good luck with your hospital visit this weekend. Hope everything gets fixed and this will be your last visit in a long, long time.
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Good wishes much appreciated @ziggy_w. Hopefully be all about ruling out the last potential real nasty. Really miss proper exercising (have tested gently this weekend) critical for coping with using LC as a T2 management tool. I can stick to LC - it was very apparent I was following a very different WOE on my last hospital stay - but my tastes make for a very limited menu and energy in. The exercise is what makes this doable for me - salad is fine but I have to be nagged to eat hot food - lost the taste for meat recently and was never much of a dessert person.
 
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geefull said:
good morning all :)

4.7 today

Didn't eat anything after dinner yesterday then I overslept :sorry: I'll swear I didn't use to get so 'creaky' after the journey, (It's down to about 450 miles now with the road improvements) :hilarious:

@ianpspurs , @jjraak and @DJC3 yes it's difficult to see people who know they have an issue doing so little, even on the level of research, but it could have been me if I hadn't found this site and the informed and supportive people here on this forum :happy:
I think I shall try stealth nagging tactics ;) sending them occasional recipes or links to videos 'since we're all T2D's' :p

Hope your day treats you well :)
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Stealth nagging is a good plan.
 
Cumberland said:
How good was the cricket
Ben Stokes is from Cumberland

All that fruit mmm mmm
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Bumper year for raspberries, blackberries and conference pears - the du comice is still a baby. Far more apples last year but good crop of spartans and a few of my favourite russets. I do take a few bites and discard. Will look for patio versions for the new normal sized garden. Limited variety of apples on those v small stocks and I am selective with apples.
 
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ziggy_w said:
Good morning all.

Fasting blood sugars were 4.7 today.

@DJC3 -- No vacation planned unfortunately, but we spend two days in Paris in July and visited a concert by Melody Gardot. Incredible experience and really enjoyed.
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I’m sure you’ll benefit from the lack of work related stress just as much as if you’d gone away anyway. A ‘Staycation ‘ can be brilliant
 
ianpspurs said:
The Fens will soon no longer be my base, moving to Breckland. I was born in Cambridge and basically measure everywhere against it but I do love the absurdities of the place - town v gown previously and biotech rich v normies latterly. This list of snippets sums up the area well - Trumpington is definitely well healed but our new nearest branch will be Newmarket (serious money conspicuously displayed). I found this funny as I could either name or put a face to all of them. What am I doing posting here? This kind of article is, for me at least far better, at maintaining my wellbeing (I don't think wellness works) than LC woe.
https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/ne...gs-overheard-waitrose-cambridgeshire-16811622
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Brilliant link, made me laugh a lot. I don’t think it’s just Cambridge though, and I have to confess a couple of those quotes could have been me!!!
 
Massive attach of sun; 27 degrees already. Luckily it was out early and back by 12 for lunch. Mrs Miggins has taken the grandchildren home now and left me here to do some “jobs” - I know that the decking needs jet washing and some new curtains hung - apart from that I think she wanted everything in the fridge and freezer using up, wine also I suppose.

So, I will hide indoors until it cools down. The aircon is on (two fans on full blast with bottles of frozen water in front) and a large glass of something with ice in it (ice, sparkling water and a wee wee dash of Cabernet Sauvignon).

No curtain twitching if you are hiding indoors.
 
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@geefull

LOVING the 'sneaky Nagging"..loL
And what great idea.:D

@DJC3 i agree, hard to keep a civil tongue sometimes as @gennepher says :rolleyes:

@dunelm what a super grandad you sound..bet those kids remember you forever.

@PenguinMum
omg..that sounds like the most glorious of days..x

@ianpspurs ..1 out of two ain't bad..;)
and still a good score.

@Krystyna23040 .he's deffo a keeper..:D
great thinking by him..so enjoy the day.

@Bubbsie ..aww mate, that's not good..any real reason
still ya get to join Mc today in his siesta, if ya like..:bag:

@Muddy Cyclist ..i do admire your get up and just go..wish it came in bottles at tesco's

But @karen8967
POST of the DAY.

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hahaha..so D**n accurate, to boot..:hilarious::hilarious::hilarious:
 
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