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Bah Humbug = disgust or disbelief, but it can also mean sham,deceitful, trickery, which I didn't have a clue about!

Then I saw it could be a striped hard candy!!!!! Which turns out that's a UK and few other countries name for striped candy!!! In the US we just call it striped peppermint candy. I'm not sure we have any other flavor of striped hard candy other than peppermint. Learn something everyday. I guess Kool Aid is finally showing up in stores there, not that we did anyone favors by sharing that!!!!
 
I've had a bullet proof weekend...
Too much wine on saturday night woke up sunday at 3.1 looked at my graph and had been teetering along that level all night with either no alarm or me mot hearing it.
I was active as i was running a stall at a christmas fair selling reindeer for charity so i had 2 slices of toast.
Normally i would take insulin for the toast but i hung back as i was busy and driving.
My stall sold out in 2 hours (£400 raised for greater manchester blood bikes charity) and no insulin needed.

Had a sunday roast with 10 units of novorapid off to bed and woke on 5.1.
Happy days.

Happy Monday

Tony
 
New one for me.
I just pricked my finger and the finger pricking thing hung on to my finger by the lancet until I pulled it off.
Is this a sign it's time to change my lancet?

If yes, please tell me where I stored my box of lancets. I haven't seen it in at least 8 months, and the box I found holds prickers for a different pricker device I don't remember owning. Ordering a new box seems overkill, there must be at least 90 lancets left in the box I can't find. :hilarious:
 
Antje77 said:
New one for me.
I just pricked my finger and the finger pricking thing hung on to my finger by the lancet until I pulled it off.
Is this a sign it's time to change my lancet?

If yes, please tell me where I stored my box of lancets. I haven't seen it in at least 8 months, and the box I found holds prickers for a different pricker device I don't remember owning. Ordering a new box seems overkill, there must be at least 90 lancets left in the box I can't find. :hilarious:
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To combat this i have a cupboard in the kitchen where all my medical bits and bobs live.
I even bought a plastic tray for the fridge to keep my insulin in date order.
I bought a label maker not long ago for my workshop so everything is in order.

I am getting more OCD the older i'm getting but people tend to think being OCD is a bad thing well i think not.

I suspect you will find your box when you are not looking for them.....

Happy monday

Tony
 
Antje77 said:
New one for me.
I just pricked my finger and the finger pricking thing hung on to my finger by the lancet until I pulled it off.
Is this a sign it's time to change my lancet?

:hilarious:
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Lol, I have a cupboard everything goes into. I can't remember what all the lancets go to either! But the ones never hunted for are in a plastic container just in case I find out at some point. I love Tony's idea of a tray in the refrigerator, but my method works, newest stack on the right, oldest on the left along the back of the refrigerator shelf. And everything shoved to the left as it gets used up. My husband got yelled at once because he shoved everything to the right trying to make room for something. :)

I change them when they start to hurt or it's not bleeding very easy. I'm not sure when that is, but it seems to work!
 
Marie 2 said:
Lol, I have a cupboard everything goes into. I can't remember what all the lancets go to either! But the ones never hunted for are in a plastic container just in case I find out at some point. I love Tony's idea of a tray in the refrigerator, but my method works, newest stack on the right, oldest on the left along the back of the refrigerator shelf. And everything shoved to the left as it gets used up. My husband got yelled at once because he shoved everything to the right trying to make room for something. :)

I change them when they start to hurt or it's not bleeding very easy. I'm not sure when that is, but it seems to work!
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I'm not anywhere near as organised as @Tony337 , but your way is more or less how I do it with insulin, sensors, and teststrips, even if slightly more chaotic. :hilarious:
The box of lancets is a different story. I haven't looked for it in at least 6 months, likely longer, and it's definitely not in any of the places where I'd expect it to be.

On a more positive note, I've used my current lancet multiple times today because my sensor seems to have lost its sense, and the pricker hasn't held on to my finger again. So I guess it's fine to keep using until the box of spare lancets shows up!
 
Hi
Woke in the 7s and as it started to rise i jabbed 1 unit of novorapid so by the time i walked to work all would be well....
I'm now in the 2s cursing.
Eating biscuits drinking coffee at my desk but cursing nonetheless.
Thankfully i'm on top of everything at work so eventually all will be well which it should have been and would have been yesterday lol lol.

I love the expression

It bit me on the ****.....

Happy friday

Tony
 
long time since I've been above 70% in range on my libre, just trying to keep my glucose down in the mornings that's the trouble as i'm always getting the urge to eat in the middle of the night sending it above 15 mmol/l as soon as i wake up
 
scorpius14 said:
long time since I've been above 70% in range on my libre, just trying to keep my glucose down in the mornings that's the trouble as i'm always getting the urge to eat in the middle of the night sending it above 15 mmol/l as soon as i wake up
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Have you ever checked what your blood sugar level is when you wake up at night? If your basal rate is too strong it can be dropping in the middle of the night causing you to be hungry. I used to have that happen with my Lantus, that's why when I started it again I split the dose so I take a lighter dose at night.
 
Tony337 said:
To combat this i have a cupboard in the kitchen where all my medical bits and bobs live.
I even bought a plastic tray for the fridge to keep my insulin in date order.
I bought a label maker not long ago for my workshop so everything is in order.

I am getting more OCD the older i'm getting but people tend to think being OCD is a bad thing well i think not.

I suspect you will find your box when you are not looking for them.....

Happy monday

Tony
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Oddly I have a Tupperware box in the fridge keeping it off the sides with my insulin expiry dated in order.
It’s just practical grab & go from the front when the last open box runs out kept where the eggs should go in the door pocket?
 
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