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had a little bit of bleeding injecting into stomach as well. guessing must of hit very small blood vessel or something. never have injected in arm, althou libre sensor , several times been bleeding it rarer to bleed than not to bleed was back upper arm used for sense.

what are you having some fast carbs to bring you up then slower? my mum found if low harder to get back up if didnt have something slower acting ontop of faster acting. treat til ok, then slower to stablize.

10cal jelly is pretty decent imo theres something like 0.2g carbs in a pot. 55p from aldi/lidl's or the hartleys one usually on offer somewhere at at 70p. i note you had mentioned more confident at counting carbs i2c ratio for me changed a lot over time.. would suggest ask for dafne course (if...

ever make your own cheesecake? :) i make a quick nobake cheesecake mix sometimes sets in fridge few hours. sugarfree lemon (or other flavour) jelly, cream, phillydelphia (or other softcheese) couple of berries on top, occassionly grate a tiny bit of 80% dark chocolate ontop yum. one of my fave...

i used lift tablets when went swimming. those at 15 cals with 3.7g fast carbs in each tablet.

https://www.diabetes.co.uk/hba1c-to-blood-sugar-level-converter.html its 52mmol/l

curious was there recent update to your phones os that would fall within that time period? had simular issues when phone upgraded until app updated. i now have auto-updates turned off to hopefully prevent future problems. sometimes updates contain: breaking changes, api or whatever else can...

mostly really good morning numbers. 5.4-5.7, exception days pre-op appts 10+ had two due to missing 'bloods' :F wonder why the heck they didn't believe that my last hba1c was october? :O did show them medical record via mydiabetesmyway and queried if was needed. left crease of elbow from last...

https://www.freestyle.abbott/content/dam/adc/freestyle/countries/us-en/documents/get-started-guide-FSL2-Plus.pdf page 2: I'm pretty bad with needles, yet will check when low/high. small print. would agree accuracy can vary from person to person. I've also had a few dud sensors reading low...

I note u said libre said low. Just so aware supposed to fingerprick blood glucose check... If blood glucose low treat I was also told to follow up if no food shortly to follow up with snack of some more complex carbs which would help to stabilise levels a little better. It's essential for blood...

fingerprick 6.4 - 5.8 libre . Pre-Op appt tomorrow :( nightmares :/ double lumber fusion op very shortly no idea how sugars will fair with zero exercise for what will likely be several weeks all going well before 'light exercise' and 6+ months before can try return to swimming :(

free trials are available which if not tried before you can take advantage of 10day: https://www.dexcom.com/en-GB/dexcom-one-plus-sample libre: https://www.freestyle.abbott/uk-en/getting-started/sampling.html regards with switching over to insulin, that unfortantly doesnt always mean get a...

libre 5.9 been pretty decent last several days :) currently 12.3 according to libre straight up arrow around an hour and half since gave up getting back to sleep and had my breakfask 1x large scrambeld egg, single half size slice of wholemeal warbatons toast - 9.6g carbs (0.6g large egg 9g the...

this morning 5.6 blood glucose libre thinks 4.9. libre been fairly good <6 usually blood glucose always a little higher approx 0.5 out this time around. exception last weeks appt, fairly stressful woke up to 7.4. alarm went off for high several hours later during meeting despite zero food...

Swimming is awesome form of exercise enjoy helps a lot with resistance ☺️