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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

RosemaryJackson said:
Morning all. a big hug for you @MrsA2, I know how hard it is. I have stopped taking the anti-biotics because I was getting worse by the day. They left a disgusting taste in my mouth as well and as nothing else had changed in my life, it had to be them that caused all the problems I had. I haven't got better overnight obviously but I slept better. To be honest, I suddenly feel like an old woman and I have never felt this way before. But tomorrow is another day. Have a nice day folks. :)
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Sorry to hear you are feeling poorly and not your usual young self. Hope you feel better soon.
 
We often talk about impact of food on our blood glucose numbers but wonder if anyone has had an impact on their bgs of food they dreamt about rather than ate?
I was chatting to a family friend yesterday evening about the sweet shop that George's Mum and Dad owned and we also ran for a couple of years to help them out and earn some money to pay for post graduate training. We talked about various old fashioned sweets and I had a really vivid dream last night with tastes and smells of the sweets. Very enjoyable but it was so realistic that I woke up worried my fasting bloods would be up so imagine my surprise when meter said my lowest fasting bgs ever of 3.7 ! My usual is 4.9 to 5.2. All I can think is that body produced insulin in anticipation of the sweet treats which never appeared in reality!
 
shelley262 said:
We often talk about impact of food on our blood glucose numbers but wonder if anyone has had an impact on their bgs of food they dreamt about rather than ate?
I was chatting to a family friend yesterday evening about the sweet shop that George's Mum and Dad owned and we also ran for a couple of years to help them out and earn some money to pay for post graduate training. We talked about various old fashioned sweets and I had a really vivid dream last night with tastes and smells of the sweets. Very enjoyable but it was so realistic that I woke up worried my fasting bloods would be up so imagine my surprise when meter said my lowest fasting bgs ever of 3.7 ! My usual is 4.9 to 5.2. All I can think is that body produced insulin in anticipation of the sweet treats which never appeared in reality!
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Not a dream, but definitely something similar. I posted about it in 2017, a year after diagnosis and a year before a C-peptide test showed I was still producing some insulin, if only a small amount.
I guess I'll have to watch GBBO again to see if I'm still producing insulin! :hilarious:

I swear watching The Great British Bake-off makes me hypo

Well, technically not the great british bake-off, but Heel Holland Bakt, the Dutch copy of the show. Not sure if type2 or LADA, but I guess it proves I still make some of my own insulin. Is it even possible to produce insulin in anticipation of food? Anyone else experienced this? The first...
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shelley262 said:
We often talk about impact of food on our blood glucose numbers but wonder if anyone has had an impact on their bgs of food they dreamt about rather than ate?
I was chatting to a family friend yesterday evening about the sweet shop that George's Mum and Dad owned and we also ran for a couple of years to help them out and earn some money to pay for post graduate training. We talked about various old fashioned sweets and I had a really vivid dream last night with tastes and smells of the sweets. Very enjoyable but it was so realistic that I woke up worried my fasting bloods would be up so imagine my surprise when meter said my lowest fasting bgs ever of 3.7 ! My usual is 4.9 to 5.2. All I can think is that body produced insulin in anticipation of the sweet treats which never appeared in reality!
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That’s really interesting but hard to test unless you can have the same dream for a few nights running :p Would be great if it worked the opposite way and you could bring Hba1c down by only dreaming low carb!
 
I "have" a social worker I've been in contact with once every two years when the funding for my help (needed to prevent me from drowning in my own household) needs to be extended.
He's a really cool guy, always willing to look at what works rather than what the rules say, even though he works for the local government.

I'm still struggling with wanting to work, but no idea what I want to do now overly physical jobs are out with the stupid arm, and no idea on how to get a job really, I've always been sailing which is completely different from regular jobs. and new things scare me still.

I found out the department for helping people find their way into jobs is actually the same department dealing with people needing help with basic housekeeping.
So I skipped all the complex applications and simply sent this Wouter a text message to ask if he would be willing to think with me. Which I think is bending the rules, but it's much quicker and much more informal and mentally safe than following the official route. :angelic:

It took him a week to reply (holiday to Denmark, lucky him!), but he has time to come by tomorrow morning, too bad he forgot to tell me at what time.

When he still hadn't messaged me at 9:30 pm I sent him a message I'd be available from 9:30 am, but please let me know his plan so I might be able to go for my morning swim, or call me half an hour before he plans to come if earlier. Or if he fancies a swim to be written as working hours, meet me at 9:30 at my swimming spot. :hilarious:

Anyway, I hope he can help me find my way in this new world of finding a job,

Anyone having ideas on cool jobs I could apply for, please tell me, I really have no idea!
 
A busy day today as we had invited the 3 neighbours who had recently looked after our Cat for a "thank you" meal
I cooked a proper cake ( which sank in the middle and had to be turned into trifle), a fritatta, a ham, a walnut and mushroom loaf.
Accompanied by green salad, Sicilian fennel and orange salad and greek salad and roasted peppers. Bread for the carb eaters.
Pud was trifle and birthday cake
Wine and beers and after dinner drinks were drunk.

Bg went really high twice (cake in the morning and trifle in the evening,)but came back down really quickly. Is that relatively good?
 
MrsA2 said:
went really high twice (cake in the morning and trifle in the evening,)but came back down really quickly. Is that relatively good?
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Sounds very good to me, not relatively.
Life is allowed to get in the way occasionally, and coming back down quickly is amazing!
MrsA2 said:
I don't think one needs a cool job to be cool, or validated. You seem pretty cool to me anyway. Most jobs are actually boring and sedate. The cool bit comes from the hours outside the job, imho
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Thanks a lot for thinking me cool!

I should have worded it differently I guess. I'm not looking for a job that sounds cool, I'm looking for something interesting enough to keep me going.
I liked the gully sucking because it was outside in different places, and that's about as uncool as it gets.

I'm probably spoilt, having worked with people on sailing ships, even if it was for very low wages.
I'm looking for something I like doing but I have no idea what.
Library employee, crane operator, social worker, ships rigger, i really have no idea!
 
Happy Birthday @Annb hope you had a lovely day

Antje77 said:
I "have" a social worker I've been in contact with once every two years when the funding for my help (needed to prevent me from drowning in my own household) needs to be extended.
He's a really cool guy, always willing to look at what works rather than what the rules say, even though he works for the local government.

I'm still struggling with wanting to work, but no idea what I want to do now overly physical jobs are out with the stupid arm, and no idea on how to get a job really, I've always been sailing which is completely different from regular jobs. and new things scare me still.

I found out the department for helping people find their way into jobs is actually the same department dealing with people needing help with basic housekeeping.
So I skipped all the complex applications and simply sent this Wouter a text message to ask if he would be willing to think with me. Which I think is bending the rules, but it's much quicker and much more informal and mentally safe than following the official route. :angelic:

It took him a week to reply (holiday to Denmark, lucky him!), but he has time to come by tomorrow morning, too bad he forgot to tell me at what time.

When he still hadn't messaged me at 9:30 pm I sent him a message I'd be available from 9:30 am, but please let me know his plan so I might be able to go for my morning swim, or call me half an hour before he plans to come if earlier. Or if he fancies a swim to be written as working hours, meet me at 9:30 at my swimming spot. :hilarious:

Anyway, I hope he can help me find my way in this new world of finding a job,

Anyone having ideas on cool jobs I could apply for, please tell me, I really have no idea!
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Sounds like you are being proactive @Antje77 which is a really good start.Hope this guy has some useful suggestions for you. Have you put the word out amongst people you know that you are looking?
 
Antje77 said:
I "have" a social worker I've been in contact with once every two years when the funding for my help (needed to prevent me from drowning in my own household) needs to be extended.
He's a really cool guy, always willing to look at what works rather than what the rules say, even though he works for the local government.

I'm still struggling with wanting to work, but no idea what I want to do now overly physical jobs are out with the stupid arm, and no idea on how to get a job really, I've always been sailing which is completely different from regular jobs. and new things scare me still.

I found out the department for helping people find their way into jobs is actually the same department dealing with people needing help with basic housekeeping.
So I skipped all the complex applications and simply sent this Wouter a text message to ask if he would be willing to think with me. Which I think is bending the rules, but it's much quicker and much more informal and mentally safe than following the official route. :angelic:

It took him a week to reply (holiday to Denmark, lucky him!), but he has time to come by tomorrow morning, too bad he forgot to tell me at what time.

When he still hadn't messaged me at 9:30 pm I sent him a message I'd be available from 9:30 am, but please let me know his plan so I might be able to go for my morning swim, or call me half an hour before he plans to come if earlier. Or if he fancies a swim to be written as working hours, meet me at 9:30 at my swimming spot. :hilarious:

Anyway, I hope he can help me find my way in this new world of finding a job,

Anyone having ideas on cool jobs I could apply for, please tell me, I really have no idea!
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You enjoy caring for your animals what about dog walking or pet sitting for people? Assisting at an animal shelter or vets office?
 
Thanks for the birthday wishes @Antje77, @LivingLightly, @sueh21, @shelley262, @RosemaryJackson and @MrsA2.

It was a good day - busy because I was getting organised for the state visit (my beloved brother and his wife) but I got everything done in time and their visit went well - over now because it was only a few available hours free time from their coach tour of Scotland. At least I got to see them; at our ages, it could always be the last time so there is sadness there too. Kind of bitter-sweet. Still at nearly 82, and a year after his major heart surgery, he's remarkably fit and will probably outlast me. Em and her parents popped in to see them, so that was lovely too.

Didn't have any breakfast today, busy, busy, but I had made mini fish pies for lunch so had one of those - including the potato topping. Didn't put my BG up at all. It was frozen, defrosted potato that I used, so that will have helped. As well as 3 individual pies, I made one larger one which will probably make 3 servings. It will go into the freezer along with the chicken pot pies that I also made, in case they didn't want fish. A larger one of those as well to freeze.
 
Woke with a headache, which I put down to too much alcohol the previous night. But paracetamol then later ibuprofen didn't touch it.
Fell asleep by 12 noon.
Eventually realised it was a migraine so took right medication.
Apparently there's a UK shortage of sumitraptan and I got the last 6 doses in any of 8 local chemists. None have any idea when they will get more.

Food was odd today. Veg soup at 3 pm. Nut loaf at 6 and ham and yoghurt at 9pm.

My bg has been oddly high all day too, only settled about 6pm.
Fingers crossed back to normal tomorrow.
 
Antje77 said:
Not a dream, but definitely something similar. I posted about it in 2017, a year after diagnosis and a year before a C-peptide test showed I was still producing some insulin, if only a small amount.
I guess I'll have to watch GBBO again to see if I'm still producing insulin! :hilarious:

I swear watching The Great British Bake-off makes me hypo

Well, technically not the great british bake-off, but Heel Holland Bakt, the Dutch copy of the show. Not sure if type2 or LADA, but I guess it proves I still make some of my own insulin. Is it even possible to produce insulin in anticipation of food? Anyone else experienced this? The first...
www.diabetes.co.uk www.diabetes.co.uk
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How fascinating! @shelley262 and @Antje77.

I seldom recall dreams the next morning although, following an exceptionally nice meal, I have occasionally dreamt about the experience a few nights later.

OTOH, talking and thinking about food when awake can induce mouth-watering and if we produce saliva in anticipation of a meal then perhaps the pancreas and other parts of our digestive system are stimulated too.
Who knows?
 
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Some years ago, before T2 diagnosis, I realized that eating very sweet things caused me to have migraines. I stopped eating sweets, biscuits and cakes. One of my favourite sweets was a Mars bar and one night I dreamed that I was eating a Mars bar. I woke with a migraine. I was indignant that al I had to do was dream of eating a Mars bar to cause a migraine. It may, of course, have been that I was developing the migraine and my brain gave me a reason for it. Or it might have been some sort of physiological reaction to the imagined chocolate bar.
 
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