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

lindisfel said:
Daughter coming up today to help us. She still works some though she is properly retired and a pensioner.
They are staying at a farm that has three stays in one building and are superbly equipped fully heated and with excellent views. One of many, cost for week about two nights in a Premier Inn for a comfortable week.

Only snag, a big one, if it snows they will be towing them in out with a tractor.

There is no way a normal car with all its fabled properties will get down the farm road to the beck and get up their hill to the farm. Its a long but difficult drive, you need one that converts to a rally car.

They would at least have to put chains or straps on. That's not funny after 45

It will be great having her and her partner with us for the week.They have a day at Keswick, are booked at the Lakeside with a big nearby car park, food and entertainment, if it's clear the mountains will be special.
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Fingers crossed that the snow waits until you all have had an amazing week and they have gone home @lindisfel
 
The vicissitudes of being an old age poster who uses a bunch of bananas on a mobile phone keyboard. He has the bad habit of having to use edit for rewriting drafts and not post them straight away. Do not use the forum as a draft refining tool. If your battery goes down low you lose it all when your kit drops off as in a mains loss.
:) I am suitably admonished :)
 
Had a family discussion the family would never support a nasty party and labour would have their vote every time, so when I said I am not sure next time she wasn't happy, you will let the others in. Far from true I am not given a multiple vote.
I like most of labour policies but they support strikes and are funded by unions. Why are doctors striking? It is diametrically against their oath to help humanity.
I know a lot of older doctors have never been on strike and never would. A similar argument applies to teachers.
D.
 
lindisfel said:
The vicissitudes of being an old age poster who uses a bunch of bananas on a mobile phone keyboard. He has the bad habit of having to use edit for rewriting drafts and not post them straight away. Do not use the forum as a draft refining tool. If your battery goes down low you lose it all when your kit drops off as in a mains loss.
:) I am suitably admonished :)
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We all understand the software on the phone/iPad when we are writing our posts, which has recently got so clever in correcting what it perceives as our mistakes, but we made no mistakes initially in our writing (maybe apart from the odd typo), and I find, as I try to correct what the software has changed what I have written to, as I try to correct it, the software is changing my sentence/paragraph before I have finished correcting the software's fairy story corrections to something totally different. And I then have not got a clue what I wrote initially...

And I have to delete my whole post and try again.

I spend more time correcting the software's alterations to my post than I do initially writing it....

So, in my eyes, no apologies are needed @lindisfel
 
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For anyone who gets a rise in BG from exercise (some of our bodies don't read the script) yesterday I walked for an hour with some testing gradients. Measured BG on return (after 20 hours fasting, which is usual for me) 7.2!!!! An hour later 6.1. Would probably have gone down further but I was hungry so had something to eat. Normally I'm in the 5s. So don't despair if exercise raises your BG as you are not alone!
 
jjraak said:
Had to arrange the bloods for my upcoming HBA1c test.

Local hospital used to be roll up take ticket & wait your turn.
Now it's pre book & then roll up & wait

So I Booked, got there ...forgot the GP bit authorising blood test.. :banghead:

Back home, fetch sheet, rebook, roll up & wait.

All done, but while I was waiting my eye tests blood results came through ..nothing untoward, but once again they've rejigged the NHS (?) app, and it reads down into previous test results ..cool.

Spot my B12, as I've talking about such recently .

Hadn't noticed last year's had me (up from 225-337 post dx to late 2019) at 447....obv due to no Metformin, just had too much on, what with one thing & another to take yet another med.

So good to know for me, it's not the T2D causing the shortfall or my age AND the supplements can help recover somewhat from pretty low numbers.

Quite chuffed by that and it's given me a little lift ....nice
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Bit of a faff but all moving along - thanks for the heads up about the NHS app.
 
Outlier said:
For anyone who gets a rise in BG from exercise (some of our bodies don't read the script) yesterday I walked for an hour with some testing gradients. Measured BG on return (after 20 hours fasting, which is usual for me) 7.2!!!! An hour later 6.1. Would probably have gone down further but I was hungry so had something to eat. Normally I'm in the 5s. So don't despair if exercise raises your BG as you are not alone!
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There will always be a stash of glucose and if not your body will make it. Glucose raising hormones like glucagon and adrenaline will pump out blood glucose to match whatever your muscles need so probably your body is just doing what it’s supposed do do. Just a thought.
 
lindisfel said:
Daughter coming up today to help us. She still works some though she is properly retired and a pensioner.
They are staying at a farm that has three stays in one building and are superbly equipped fully heated and with excellent views. One of many, cost for week about two nights in a Premier Inn for a comfortable week.

Only snag, a big one, if it snows they will be towing them in out with a tractor.

There is no way a normal car with all its fabled properties will get down the farm road to the beck and get up their hill to the farm. Its a long but difficult drive, you need one that converts to a rally car.

They would at least have to put chains or straps on. That's not funny after 45

It will be great having her and her partner with us for the week.They have a day at Keswick, are booked at the Lakeside with a big nearby car park, food and entertainment, if it's clear the mountains will be special.
D.
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Hope they have a great time of it and no tractor aid. I applaud you use of a mobile phone keyboard, banana fingers or nay. Perhaps you are royalty? :cool: I avoid them and use a proper keyboard attached to my IPad as my own fingers have a habit of seizing up without warning .
 
Good morning everyone from another day in paradise here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.4 this morning. Interesting how readings flip up and down if you have to get up during the night. If you are quiet, liver might slumber on but if you are in a mad rush to get somewhere and lights are switched on then maybe not. Anyhow, art bit. Another exercise similar to yesterday. Two colours. Hope your day is kind. I have drunk my koffy and may just make another.


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JohnEGreen said:
Good morning 6.4 today nothing else to report I live a very mundane life of late.
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I sometimes feel like that when class members tell me about their exotic holidays. But actually I really do love my mundane life.

Thank goodness I read my reply before pressing the post reply button because predictive text decided to spice up my post by substituting another word for exotic.
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone from another day in paradise here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.4 this morning. Interesting how readings flip up and down if you have to get up during the night. If you are quiet, liver might slumber on but if you are in a mad rush to get somewhere and lights are switched on then maybe not. Anyhow, art bit. Another exercise similar to yesterday. Two colours. Hope your day is kind. I have drunk my koffy and may just make another.


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Brilliant! I love this. I am a fan of using a limited colour palette @dunelm
 
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