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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

Annb said:
How amazing to be able to hold such a lovely bird.

Food today is going to be a disaster carb-wise. For some reason my BG's gone haywire and I keep dropping down into hypos. Struggling to keep it up to a reasonable level and so far have had:

a whole packet of fruit pastilles
the last 2 oatcakes
two dry RyVitas
one banana
a dish of cold cassolet
2 mugs of tea with plenty of milk
a mug of milky coffee - made with sweet Camp coffee - usually used to make coffee cakes

and it's still dropping - lifts into the lower 4's briefly after some carb then drops into the 3's and 2's a few minutes later. I've just called the Health Centre to cancel my appointment for rebandaging my legs for today and asked Neil not to go to town meantime, in case I need help.

I started with BG at 6.3 at 03.30 today - had my first mug of tea and a couple of Panadol, and dozed off in the chair. When I woke again an hour later it was 8.1. Another cup of tea and my basal insulin and an hour later (in the shower) I was approaching a hypo at 3.5. Took a couple of fruit pastilles to stop the drop but it just kept on going. Before long I was sweating and shaking and Libre read 2.5. More fruit pastilles and a RyVita (didn't butter it because I wanted it to act quickly). BG rose to 3.4, then the Libre decided not to work again for a while so I turned to my Accuchek finger pricker. It told me my BG was 6.6, which, feeling the way I was, could not have been correct. Eventually I got the Libre to give me a reading. 2.5 this time. And so it has gone for the last 3 hours and showing no sign of sorting itself out.

I wondered if I had made a mistake and taken my basal insulin twice but I have absolutely no memory of doing so and looking at the level still in the pen, I don't think I did. Not sure what the issue is but I will just have to try to keep on top of it until it sorts itself out. Right now my Libre has gone on strike again and says that no reading is available - try again in 10 minutes!

As I said, today is going to be a disaster carb-wise.

EDIT: Libre just warned me that my BG is over 8! Forgot to add that I was quite cavalier and had about half a bar of Lindt milk chocolate with almonds because I was desperately looking for carbs to consume.
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Do hope it settled as the day went on. Sounds very alarming wonder if Libre is accurate I know it struggles with very high and very low readings. Sounds suspicious too if Libre has gone on strike. Hope you are feeling okay x
 
Visited a friend today whose garden is doing well - her runner beans have survived the slug plague - unlike mine! I was very lucky to be given some surplus beans for tea and some of her wonderful dahlias ( see new avatar)
Off out into my more slug damaged garden in a few mins to water my plants especially the outdoors tomatoes which are starting to ripen and the wonderfully plump raspberries. Think we have a few sunnier hotter days coming up so will help tomatoes ripen further. I love garden tomatoes - well worth the effort of looking after them and as I grow them in grobags on gravel the slugs haven't found them yet!
 
Antje77 said:
After all that, I'd be happy to run a little higher the rest of the day and tomorrow @Annb !
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Yes, I'll be quite comfortable if BG stays high (it still is just over 8.0) but I'm not sure whether to risk taking the Tresibo insulin tomorrow morning, in case the same thing happens, or whether to keep carbs to an absolute minimum and not take the insulin. Might just take a smaller dose and see how I get on.
 
MrsA2 said:
@Annb please do keep doing plentiful finger pricks, just in case it's the libre playing up not you!
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It's not the Libre. It was definitely hypos so Libre was approximately right to give a reading in the 2's each time. The finger pricks were really odd though. BG couldn't have been at 6.6 while I was having a hypo.
 
shelley262 said:
Do hope it settled as the day went on. Sounds very alarming wonder if Libre is accurate I know it struggles with very high and very low readings. Sounds suspicious too if Libre has gone on strike. Hope you are feeling okay x
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Recovered now with BG's in the 8's since late afternoon. Feeling much better if still a little puzzled. We'll se what tomorrow brings (next time I take Tresibo insulin).
 
Annb said:
Yes, I'll be quite comfortable if BG stays high (it still is just over 8.0) but I'm not sure whether to risk taking the Tresibo insulin tomorrow morning, in case the same thing happens, or whether to keep carbs to an absolute minimum and not take the insulin. Might just take a smaller dose and see how I get on.
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Any changes to your Tresiba take up to 3 days to take full effect, it's a very, very long acting insulin.
So should you decide not to take your Tresiba, you'll still have Tresiba in your system for over 48 hours.
You'll likely only start noticing the effect of the missed dose by the end of the missed day, and in the next few days because of that missing insulin.

If it were me, I'd likely lower my dose for peace of mind for one day and see what happens, but I wouldn't completely cut it out.
During the past year, I've needed to lower my doses of basal (mostly Tresiba with a little Levemir thrown into the mix) from 100 to 120 units to my current 58 to 70, which has been a pain in the proverbial. You seem to have been following a similar journey, you take far less insulin than a while back.

It may be your insulin needs have lowered further, or it may just be a funny blip. It could even have been the panadol if you have something brewing or just pain.
I remember I once had a nasty cold with a fever and higher BG, and every time I took paracetamol the fever and feeling rubbish dropped, and so did my BG, which I thought was hilarious at the time.
Annb said:
It's not the Libre. It was definitely hypos so Libre was approximately right to give a reading in the 2's each time. The finger pricks were really odd though. BG couldn't have been at 6.6 while I was having a hypo.
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You had also been treating hypos with sweet stuff, any chance of residual sugar still on your finger when testing?


And yes, I went swimming again this morning, will go again tomorrow or expect a telling off here!
 
Antje77 said:
Any changes to your Tresiba take up to 3 days to take full effect, it's a very, very long acting insulin.
So should you decide not to take your Tresiba, you'll still have Tresiba in your system for over 48 hours.
You'll likely only start noticing the effect of the missed dose by the end of the missed day, and in the next few days because of that missing insulin.

If it were me, I'd likely lower my dose for peace of mind for one day and see what happens, but I wouldn't completely cut it out.
During the past year, I've needed to lower my doses of basal (mostly Tresiba with a little Levemir thrown into the mix) from 100 to 120 units to my current 58 to 70, which has been a pain in the proverbial. You seem to have been following a similar journey, you take far less insulin than a while back.

It may be your insulin needs have lowered further, or it may just be a funny blip. It could even have been the panadol if you have something brewing or just pain.
I remember I once had a nasty cold with a fever and higher BG, and every time I took paracetamol the fever and feeling rubbish dropped, and so did my BG, which I thought was hilarious at the time.

You had also been treating hypos with sweet stuff, any chance of residual sugar still on your finger when testing?


And yes, I went swimming again this morning, will go again tomorrow or expect a telling off here!
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I wondered about that. I didn't think so but wasn't being very smart at the time, due to hypo symptoms. I'll try it out again tomorrow. Tonight, I'm just leaving well alone. Feeling OK but very tired - no wonder after so many hypos today. Tomorrow I will take a half dose (24u) of Tresibo and see where that gets me.
 
Nice walk with a friend followed by coffee.
L: hm coleslaw with pate and cream cheese. A peach and cream. A hm lc cinnamon cake.
A sleep
Another nice long telephone chat with a friend - 2 hours!
D: steak and butter fried courgette. Hm lc coffee cake with small ice cream

Lots of self care to help my stress.. A good day
 
I finally met with @JoKalsbeek and her husband, after many years of being very close friends online, first only on the forum and in later years through WhatsApp and email as well. :joyful:
It made me very happy, we've shared so much over the years, she's a true friend and very brave to overcome her anxiety to meet, hug, and hear eachothers voices for the first time!

It's a very happy day today, even though my own anxiety made for higher bg than made sense, until I realised it was anxiety, no matter how happy the occasion. :happy:
 
LivingLightly said:
Wow! Is it a kestrel?@Antje77. One seldom has the opportunity to see a bird of prey at close quarters and appreciate its beauty, especially its amazing plumage.
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I think it is a hawk, but I'm depending on google translate.
I speak diabetes and Bob Dylan mostly fluently in English, other subjects not so much. I don't even speak bird stuff in my own language, I wouldn't have had a clue on the type of bird in Dutch except 'bird of prey', had someone not told me it was a male 'havik'.

@KennyA or @Pipp , do you know what bird this is in English? I know you know a lot more about wildlife than I do.
 
shelley262 said:
Visited a friend today whose garden is doing well - her runner beans have survived the slug plague - unlike mine! I was very lucky to be given some surplus beans for tea and some of her wonderful dahlias ( see new avatar)
Off out into my more slug damaged garden in a few mins to water my plants especially the outdoors tomatoes which are starting to ripen and the wonderfully plump raspberries. Think we have a few sunnier hotter days coming up so will help tomatoes ripen further. I love garden tomatoes - well worth the effort of looking after them and as I grow them in grobags on gravel the slugs haven't found them yet!
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Yes, the exceptionally wet weather has produced a bumper crop of slugs! @shelley262. Some gardeners persisted in putting slug pellets round their plants only to poison our hedgehogs, toads and song thrushes, so now we have fewer slug eaters to keep their numbers down.

I love garden tomatoes too. Which varieties do you grow?
 
Antje77 said:
I think it is a hawk, but I'm depending on google translate.
I speak diabetes and Bob Dylan mostly fluently in English, other subjects not so much. I don't even speak bird stuff in my own language, I wouldn't have had a clue on the type of bird in Dutch except 'bird of prey', had someone not told me it was a male 'havik'.

@KennyA or @Pipp , do you know what bird this is in English? I know you know a lot more about wildlife than I do.
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It certainly looks large enough to be a species we call a goshawk in English, @Antje77. Prachtig! I've never seen one in flight, never mind at such close range.
 
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LivingLightly said:
It certainly looks large enough to be a species we call a goshawk in English, @Antje77.
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Looks like it to me, it was underweight at a little over 500 grams, being a young one, according to the professionals. But while I'm pretty good at reading, I'm not good at interpreting visual information at all, so many birds look the same to me unless someone points out their differences to me.
They had two adult birds of the same species in te sanctuary, and their heads looked much wider to me if that helps.
 
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Annb said:
It's not the Libre. It was definitely hypos so Libre was approximately right to give a reading in the 2's each time. The finger pricks were really odd though. BG couldn't have been at 6.6 while I was having a hypo.
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Could it have been glucose on your finger from all the emergency snacking? Not sure if that is a thing but the instructions do say to make sure clean and dry so maybe?
 
Antje77 said:
I finally met with @JoKalsbeek and her husband, after many years of being very close friends online, first only on the forum and in later years through WhatsApp and email as well. :joyful:
It made me very happy, we've shared so much over the years, she's a true friend and very brave to overcome her anxiety to meet, hug, and hear eachothers voices for the first time!

It's a very happy day today, even though my own anxiety made for higher bg than made sense, until I realised it was anxiety, no matter how happy the occasion. :happy:
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For a bunch of anxious people, the three of us did pretty good, didn't we? ;) Once we finally found your place, anyway, haha! :)
 
Dosed with 24units of Tresibo at 04.45 this morning but BG was already high and just went higher, so at 06.30 I added another 12u. Hasn't gone down yet - still 11.2. Maybe if I take my bolus dose of Humalog and have breakfast, that will do something. Too much carb early yesterday? Probably.

Yesterday would have been Tom's 90th birthday - he didn't make it that far, of course, but still a day to remember. I hadn't mentioned it to Em but in the afternoon she arrived with a bunch of sunflowers which she had bought with some of the money I gave her for cleaning the car. "For Grandad's birthday". Sweet child. Sunflowers were her Grandad's favourite flower - she even remembered that from when she was 5.

Breakfast will be bacon and egg.
2nd meal will be some more of the cassoulet with some chicken added.
MommaE said:
Could it have been glucose on your finger from all the emergency snacking? Not sure if that is a thing but the instructions do say to make sure clean and dry so maybe?
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I didn't think so, but today the finger-prick is very much in agreement with the Libre - 11.3.
 
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