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

Oh no, that was yesterday's post. When I logged in this morning I realised I hadn't pressed the post button.

Today another 5.5. Have had a lovely walk in the sunshine. Am now relaxing with a coffee before continuing with writing up the new exercises sheets. Am really looking forward to teaching the new stuff on Monday.
 
9.0 at 03.00 today. That was because I really overloaded with the carbs with my meal at 18.00 yesterday, with no insulin, to keep BG up for the 8 hours to taking my first Semaglutimide tablet. It was just over 12 during the evening and had dropped to 11.4 by 00.25 when I went to bed. I didn't want to risk a hypo overnight. We'll see how it goes.
 
Morning all. 4.7 here today even after cod in batter, mushy peas and a few (disappointing) chips last evening. In my defence your honour, JKP hadn't taken out any salmon and had frozen the prawns. Yes, I could have tried to find them but the way JKP stacks a freezer is like the world's maddest dry stone wall. Every time I try to find food - except in my draw in one of them - frozen food rains down on me. Moving on, some splendid activity going on. Park runs (200 is an amazing feat), Tai Chi, dog walks - congratulations. You've all done very well :D Long may you continue. Peace be with you all.
 
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Odd sort of night. I had a hypo around 20.00 and had a struggle to get out of the 3's. Really bad symptoms as well. It took one of my cans of espresso, which usually will make BG shoot up by 2 whole points, plus 4 ginger biscuits to bring it out of the danger zone. Again oddly, it stayed in the low 5's all night. It could be the new pill (Semaglutimide) but I'd only taken the first one, and it's only a small one (1.5 mg) so nothing is expected of it until I'm onto a higher dose.

Anyway, BG at 06.00 was 5.3. Going very careful on the insulin today - just in case.
 
5.4 this morning. Quite thought it would be higher, as I'd had the munchies in the evening and eaten a couple of squares of hazelnut dark chocolate and a hot-cross bun with butter. I hardly ever eat between meals, so don't know why I wanted to last night.
 
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flonvic said:
6 9 today
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Hi I have just joined this forum. I always measure my fasting glucose in the morning around 7-8 am and most of the time above 6. But recently I am using a CGM and it shows up until 6:30-7am it is nice and steady around 5-5.5 and then it spikes to > 6 (dawn phenomenon). I am not worried any more :) Instead I watch the spikes after the meals.
 
Hello and welcome to this thread @liton74. Your readings sound reliably good. Well done you!

BG today at 03.00 was 6.3 but it took a dip after breakfast to 3.6 (still getting the insulin amount wrong it seems) but after another 2 biscuits, it rose to 4.2 - a step in the right direction, but even after an hour and a cup of tea, it was still only 4.4 so I've just had a couple more biscuits. I hope that will do it.

It must be these new tablets.
 
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6.0 again this morning. Which is rather good as i had the munchies yesterday evening.
I wish my fbg was as good as yours after the munchies @Mrs Redboots. 5.4 after munchies is amazing
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Thanks. The only time it's been above 6 recently was after eating out last week when I think I must have been dehydrated after a great deal of feta cheese in the Greek salad I'd ordered.
 
Good morning all. 4.8 here on a damp and dull start to Tuesday. Cooler today so tracksuit bottoms rather than shorts - still no socks though :woot: . JKP has quite a nasty recurrence of her diverticulitis which requires two antibiotics since she is allergic to penicillin : as was her mum and is our #2 son. @Annb I hope your optimism about making it through the night with no alarms was well founded. Peace be with you.
 
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