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Flu vaccination went well. Drank plenty of water throughout the day and would hardly know I’d had it. However, I have spent the night chomping on Jelly Babies and am still low this morning. No three am surge and no foot on the floor rocket. Actually ate breakfast before insulin. Unheard of. So I expect the vaccination dropped my levels. Which I have to say is not the usual way around for me. But I am never low in the mornings.
Dentist this morning. That will up things I’m sure.
 
Woke on 6.8 and feeling v tired.
Now at work 5.4 supping coffee and debating a biscuit.
I'm on some new to me GF stem ginger ones from asda and it says they are 13g per biscuit yet they taste v sweet and effect my levels like they are nearer 20g per biscuit.
Lovely though lol

Tony
 
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Flu vaccination went well. Drank plenty of water throughout the day and would hardly know I’d had it. However, I have spent the night chomping on Jelly Babies and am still low this morning. No three am surge and no foot on the floor rocket. Actually ate breakfast before insulin. Unheard of. So I expect the vaccination dropped my levels. Which I have to say is not the usual way around for me. But I am never low in the mornings.
Dentist this morning. That will up things I’m sure.
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It never fails to amaze me how different we all are - in our reactions to vaccines, the same food, the effect of stress etc etc. Whoever coined the phrase 'the only type of diabetes you have is yours' got that right!
Good luck at the dentist's @becca59
 
I made this little chap last night and was quite late going to bed.....levels a bit high but i needn't have worried as my alarm went off at 3am reminding me i need to stop moving and get to bed earlier.lol

Tony
 
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I woke on 6.2 this morning and then i started to rise but my stroll in to work brought it back down and i'm at 5.4 as i type.
I was looking at my libre and i stayed steady all night and said to myself "what a lovely graph" .....

I giggled a bit and i wonder has anyone posted a thread about things only a diabetic would say?

Some of my own faves

" thats filth that is" when i see the staffroom at school when its someones birthday and they bring in those awful donuts covered in icing that were made 8 weeks ago theres about 12 of the buggers they make me gip!

"i'd need an armful of insulin for that" commenting on someones plate at a restaraunt.

"lets see what the lady libre has to say" even after 10 years i am in awe of my libre
and along the same lines i oft mutter " 4 millimeters " as i'm jabbing myself

Have a fantastic Friday everybody and please do forgive my madness

Tony
 
For some reason it is bugging me, lately my doctors are using the term for my endo as the person who manages my diabetes. No one manages my diabetes but me lol, she just write the prescriptions I need and orders bloodwork. She herself has said she would never tell a person with 96% TIR what to do. I realize some people do need "managed" and they also need a term to refer to the person that looks at my bloodwork and I guess overseeing what care I might ever need, but they used to say your endo. There is not a good reason why this is annoying me. But it sort of feels like the care I take to have such good control is because of an endo's management? I do not like the new verbage!

I'll get over it I'm sure... or not lol, but more than one doctor has used it, so they have decided it's the term now to use!
 
@Marie 2 that would definitely rile me. For some people in the UK actually getting to see someone in person is as rare as hens teeth. I myself had phone calls since pre pandemic and though meant to see my consultant this year, I am still waiting. To have that person referred to as the person who manages my diabetes would be a no no! The only person doing that is me.
 
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For some reason it is bugging me, lately my doctors are using the term for my endo as the person who manages my diabetes. No one manages my diabetes but me lol, she just write the prescriptions I need and orders bloodwork. She herself has said she would never tell a person with 96% TIR what to do. I realize some people do need "managed" and they also need a term to refer to the person that looks at my bloodwork and I guess overseeing what care I might ever need, but they used to say your endo. There is not a good reason why this is annoying me. But it sort of feels like the care I take to have such good control is because of an endo's management? I do not like the new verbage!

I'll get over it I'm sure... or not lol, but more than one doctor has used it, so they have decided it's the term now to use!
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I am annoyed for you!!!
I Don't see any specialist whatsoever and my GP surgery take my blood.
My GP himself said he wished people would take control of their diabetes like i do.....his words not mine.
You jolly well carry on looking after yourself.

Tony
 
Another one of those "oh what a lovely graph " moments on waking.
I slept well for a change and the two things i did different yesterday was ...
1.. i had a big intake of carbs for lunch like 80g which i only do on christmas day!
2.. Had a large tea (i'm from up north where its tea time at 6 pm lol) but then watched TV for the evening as in No activity at all again a bit like christmas day....

These things are probably not significant they just feel like they are.

Its the curse of being diabetic always looking for reasons why things happen.

Happy times and places

Tony
 
Hi guys it's been a while

i just thought i'd check in and give an update

From wednesday the 8th i spent another 6 days in hospital due to dka i think it is time to grow up and except i'm diabetic and take control of my life, i managed to quit smoking and drinking i got my full motorbike licence if i can do all of them i can take control of my diabetes

i just had the flu jab got my foot and eye screening booked for thursday it is time to grow up

i hope you all are doing great
 
I had an interesting day today. I left home at 7:45 am for a workday, only returning at 7:30 pm.
Upon arriving at the bridge where I work I found out I had forgotten my phone, so no access to CGM for the day.
I'm utterly spoilt, having used Libre almost from the start of my diabetes unlike many of you, so this vey much felt like flying blind even though I did have my meter.

The problem with that is that I only get a limited amount of teststrips funded, so I wanted to use as little as possible. I managed to fight the urge to randomly test all the time just because I'm so used to knowing what my bg is doing all day, and only used 2 teststrips in the end.

Now I'm wondering how other T1's deal with suddenly losing access to their CGM. For me it was mildly stressful, and I did a lot of thinking, trying to reason with myself on what range my number would likely be in and if I needed to check with a fingerprick already or not.
I also laughed at myself a lot for overthinking, and because I like to laugh at me when I do something mildly stupid like forgetting my phone.

So how do you act when you suddenly find yourself without a CGM?
(I'm on MDI by the way.)

More details and how it worked out on this thread. It's a food thread so my post is rather heavy on the food part of my day, and with that thread mostly visited by T2's the insulin decisions aren't very relevant: https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/what-have-you-eaten-parallel-chat.177870/post-2783044
 
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The first time I felt so adrift! I was so used to being able to look constantly at my numbers and getting alerts when needed. I kept testing and worrying about it even though I survived fine before a CGM, I was just so used to having one! Because of that I purposely will go all day without starting one, just to make sure I can cope! So now I am fine. Then I had a failure right before bedtime and had to replace a sensor. I turned off my phone because it can be off when started and I would have to test not knowing if it was right and could be getting alerts etc. That was unnerving all over again.
 
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Good morning guys,

I went to my eye and foot screening i have macular degeneration edema and diabetic retinopathy but neither are very bad i can still drive read etc etc and my feet are in perfect health good pulse and full sensation,

Hypo'd for a few hours last night feeling drained today,

I hope you all are doing great
 
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