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

Our local health service has recently changed the way they work. It used to be local opticians who did the diabetic eye screening and sent the results off the Dundee or somewhere. They were the ones who got in touch with the results. When the optician sees an eye problem - other than retinopathy - they refer the patient to the hospital. Now one department at the hospital deals with referred problems while another deals with the diabetic care, including testing eyes. The optician doesn't come into it at all, other than making new glasses.

Trouble is, the one department at the hospital is uneasy about dealing with they eyes of someone who is under the care of the other department. So, having got ourselves there, just in time (heavy traffic hold ups) I had to persuade the woman in the diabetes clinic to actually do the retinopathy scan. She did it, but was quite uneasy about it. It seems to me that a person could fall between the two and arising problems could be missed. Progress!
 
Thank you @alf_Josiah for the positive advice.

Have to admit to not missing the bike riding so much in this weather .LoL

Not sure if you or @dunelm are still lucky enough to get on these days .

A pleasant few days, barring the weather here.

A gentle walk in the fresh air blew away the blues a little bit.

Fbg yesterday was 6.4
This morning's was 5.9
More than happy with that given how things are.

Hope all your loved ones stay safe and well, while the storms are here.
 
Hi @Annb .

That does seem an odd system, and easy to see how someone could fall between two stools .

I think mine did too, my diabetes checks went slightly askew, after the accident.

I've had the foot tickle tests & bloods taken recently , showing my regression backwards.

( Feet where fine, but HBA1c was higher.)

& after my eye op, the same happened to my eye tests, I pushed to get that reinstated, still got to have this year's done .

Another job for my to do list .

Keeping this old ship afloat and on an even keel, is getting harder each year, it seems.

But the effort is certainly worth it .
 
A less windy day but intermittent rain is still ongoing

Hope all those affected are and did cope as well as possible .

A lazy day here...is it the weekend already ?

Scores on the doors this am a bang on 6.0
Can't moan at that.

We have lovely neighbours, but vigilant

Took dog for a slow walk in-between the showers late last night .

No no 2 from our furry overlord until we get back in to our street..(plenty of options, doggie park, green etc but I can't force him to go , and always hate when he chooses the pavement or in our street )

Cue me, neck tube covering mouth, hoodie up, cos it's cold.

Matey picking a spot by the cars, next to little tree.....darkest place in the street ofc

Then me with flashlight in hand hunting his gift to the dog gods

When a neighbour I don't know, comes up pretty sharpish, asking me in a tad accusing voice 'if I've lost something'..

Truth is another time I might have took umbridge over it, but meds and a CBD sweet chills me out on the walk.

I told him 'yeah.....the dogs poo....'

' but it's ok, I've found it ...'

Not sure how it took it, but he did have the decency to just walk away as I pulled out a poo bag .

I did shout a 'thank you tho' before he entered his home....lol.

No harm done, and I can see why I looked suspicious.

Oh the life we lead nowadays... :hilarious:

Yours faithfully
the dog poo bandit .:cool:
 
Went to bed at 00.10 - asleep within a minute or so. Libre alarm at 01.15. Bg too low! Had 2 emergency biscuits, up for the loo, back to sleep. Libre alarm again at 02.20. Had to get up to get a bottle of choc milk shake to fix that. Just stayed up - too sore to go back to bed. My 8 hour fast before the weight loss pill was well and truly broken so I had a cup of tea and some painkillers and decided not to take the pill today. Went back to sleep in the chair and when I woke at 04.20 BG was 5.3. It's not exactly a fasting BG level, but it's the best I can do today.

I've also had two low alarms and two high alarms today so far. On the plus side, I have lost another 1.1 kg this week.

EDIT: Sorry maths isn't my strong point. I meant 2.1 kg.
 
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An interesting 4.3 fbg this morning. Was really pleased to see a fbg in the 4s as that doesn't often happen.

Half term starts tomorrow. No teaching for a week. Definitely need the break. I can catch up with everything at a leisurely pace.
 
Annb said:
Went to bed at 00.10 - asleep within a minute or so. Libre alarm at 01.15. Bg too low! Had 2 emergency biscuits, up for the loo, back to sleep. Libre alarm again at 02.20. Had to get up to get a bottle of choc milk shake to fix that. Just stayed up - too sore to go back to bed. My 8 hour fast before the weight loss pill was well and truly broken so I had a cup of tea and some painkillers and decided not to take the pill today. Went back to sleep in the chair and when I woke at 04.20 BG was 5.3. It's not exactly a fasting BG level, but it's the best I can do today.

I've also had two low alarms and two high alarms today so far. On the plus side, I have lost another 1.1 kg this week.
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a winner for the weight loss @Annb
 
jjraak said:
A less windy day but intermittent rain is still ongoing

Hope all those affected are and did cope as well as possible .

A lazy day here...is it the weekend already ?

Scores on the doors this am a bang on 6.0
Can't moan at that.

We have lovely neighbours, but vigilant

Took dog for a slow walk in-between the showers late last night .

No no 2 from our furry overlord until we get back in to our street..(plenty of options, doggie park, green etc but I can't force him to go , and always hate when he chooses the pavement or in our street )

Cue me, neck tube covering mouth, hoodie up, cos it's cold.

Matey picking a spot by the cars, next to little tree.....darkest place in the street ofc

Then me with flashlight in hand hunting his gift to the dog gods

When a neighbour I don't know, comes up pretty sharpish, asking me in a tad accusing voice 'if I've lost something'..

Truth is another time I might have took umbridge over it, but meds and a CBD sweet chills me out on the walk.

I told him 'yeah.....the dogs poo....'

' but it's ok, I've found it ...'

Not sure how it took it, but he did have the decency to just walk away as I pulled out a poo bag .

I did shout a 'thank you tho' before he entered his home....lol.

No harm done, and I can see why I looked suspicious.

Oh the life we lead nowadays... :hilarious:

Yours faithfully
the dog poo bandit .:cool:
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The joys of owning a dog @jjraak

But you would have thought that the neighbour would have realised what you were doing as you were walking your dog.
 
Libre alarm again at 02.55 (old time) - 3.7. Decided to get up and join Neil in the kitchen - he was having a bad night as well. By the time I got there it was 5.4. Liver dump, I suppose. That meant I could just take the weight loss pill and not deal with a hypo. 35 minutes later I checked again and it was 4.7. Painkillers, water, tea and a biscuit, basal insulin.

Getting a bit blowy outside. Noisy chimney, but it doesn't look too bad. BBC says it is 8C, feeling like 6C. Wind 45 from NW. Wet. Looks about right. Quite dark still and lights flickering every so often. That's one way in which the Hebrides is worse than most mainland places. Our power cables are overhead mostly and vulnerable to strong winds, ice, etc. Short sighted policy in my mind, but I guess to put cables underground is an expensive job.
 
jjraak said:
Penny wise
Pound foolish...

Comes to mind

Fbg 5.9
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Especially since, when there is a really bad storm, bringing down lines all over the Highlands and Islands, they not only have to pay emergency teams extra to try to fix them in terrible conditions, but they leave many without any means of heat at all these days, for long periods. Of course, the shareholders in the power companies don't have to shiver along with vulnerable people in the cold and dark. Older houses still have a secondary heating system, of course, but the more modern ones they are building now, don't. Most houses being built here are given air source heating, which is fine, until the power goes off.

Just thinking. This is the first winter for our solar panels to see if they can withstand the NW wind. That is one area where I think we might be vulnerable.
 
Blood sugars this morning are a high 11.9 disaster darlings, disaster, never mind, onwards and hopefully downwards .

Good damp morning Ladies and Gentlemen, my back weed bed lawn is slowly turning green.

Koffy is calling, now a question for some, Is dark matter hot or cold dark matter? I think I kneed lofty.
 
Good evening all. My blood sugars today were 8.6 via finger prick as I didn't automatically replace my sensor recently due to my flu vaccination followed by a nasty cold which has put me in bed for 3 days and would probably put my sugars up anyway. The nurse from the diabetes service who rings me weekly as part of my monitoring is amazing and really knows her stuff. The one who rang me this week, however, spent the time asking me for info. that is already on their system. She then decided to look things up on her computer and said my results were amazing. I explained why I had not replaced my sensor for the last few days. She then noticed the last date of the results they'd received and asked why I had not replaced my sensor since then! She also asked me for details of my diabetes medication which they already have but I had to correct her. When I saw her follow up report to my GP she had got the medication doses wrong! My GP knows my correct doses so I am not really concerned but can't understand what happened. She must have been having a bad day! Having said that I am sincerely grateful for the support I have received from the diabetes service. Since being put onto insulin they have monitored my blood levels via my sensor and adjusted my dosage accordingly and even provided appointments to demonstrate/ assist with the initial fitting of my sensor and injection of insulin which helped a lot. I hope you have all stayed safe during the recent storms. My illness meant that I missed most of the wind/ rain except through the bedroom window. I am recovering but now my husband has started with it and several of our walking group have also cancelled due to colds. :( Stay well, warm and safe all. Best wishes. :)
 
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5.4 at 02.30 today. That's after having to have half a bottle of choc milk shake to get out of hypo-land at 23.30. That meant no weight loss pill today.

I asked for the diabetes nurse to give me a call yesterday. I told her about my progress with this pill, and suggested that, once again, I should delay stepping up the dose since the low dose is so effective. I told her I haven't a clue what my HBa1c is, so she checked. It should have been done by the hospital in early September since I had been referred back to them. It wasn't done because they no longer deal with T2's - a fact which they had not thought to pass on to GP practices. So Friday is my appointment to get that checked at the Health Centre. We can talk about the pill then. I have no idea what it will be like - I am in target about 90% of the time but I am prone to going too low, which then means pumping in the carbs and sending BG too high. I can only manage this weight loss pill by having all those carbs I have been avoiding for years.
 
Good afternoon everyone on yet another blustery day here in the dark and dangerous north.
Been away from the internet for a while but blood sugars are staying in the 5’s and my HbA1c this week came in at 40 so pleased with that. Nothing special, just keeping an eye on carb intake and smaller plates. I only eat two meals a day, lunch at noon and dinner at about 7pm.
@jjraak I have had to give up my motorcycles for a variety of health reasons -boo, hoo - never mind. Some things change and some things remain the same.
I hope that everyone is as well as they allow themselves.
 
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