Or Gordon Bennett
Or Gordon BennettMore like Gorden Blue
As my teenager would say, “well then”. Blood test was easy, did the usual ball of cotton wool and a bit of tape over the hole while I walked to the car, and drove a couple of miles into town. Noticed the gearstick felt wet, looked down to find this...Luckily I had a long sleeved jacket to chuck over the carnage while I went shopping. Clearly I was a bit too juicy today!
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And when I got home I made ‘prawnslaw” - a 150g pack of king prawns mixed with a citrus mayo (Hellmanns, yuzu, pink salt, black pepper and some dried seaweed) and a 300g pack of beansprouts. Was soooooo nice.
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Shower next to wash the blood off, and prep a new Libre site. Going to try on on my upper chest to give my arm a break. Then a 21st birthday party later...
Happily at 6.7 now, maybe I have stolen your numbers giving you the hypo? Friday chaos reignsHope you're ok now ? Also been flying low on 4 all day until finally got a hypo at 2, must be the excitement of Friday !
Happy times! I love it. You may know this already, but personally I found Glimp much more accurate than the Libre reader.got the Libre on prescription yesterday, buzzing here
got the Libre on prescription yesterday, buzzing here
Not been on much since my 6 monthly check which left me completely deflated. Although my HB had come down slightly considering the effort I put in was very disappointed. So the story of last 10 days.........
For around 35 years with my type 1 I trundled along not paying as much attention as i should to my condition. A few years ago I started putting in more effort, more testing. At end of April this year I went on DAFNE course and what an eye opener. Since then its been lots of effort watching what I am eating lots more testing and doing correction doses, something I had never done previously
I also started low carbing of sorts. Mon--Fri all I would have was cereal for brekkie, salads or soup for lunch, so around 40 g carbs and 20 g carbs then dinner. I had completeley cut out bread, potatoes rice and pasta, so dinner was chicken, meat, etc with loads of veg so typically 20 g of carbs. On the plus side I managed to lose around 4 kg in first few months though I have since put 1kg back
At weekends I need my cereal, 40 g my 2 bacon rolls for lunch, 60g and my chinese, or Indian meal with rice so around 120g of carbs
In June I got my Libre and I love it, sort of
I was finding on many occasions however that i was going to bed with a BG of 6 and waking up at 4 with a BG of 7.5 then by 6.30 it could be hitting 11 or 12. Dawn phenomenon. Sometimes I would take a correction, sometimes it worked others it did not
My ratios are quite high on Novorapid breakfast is 1:4 lunch and dinner is 1:5, with Levemir morning and before bed
Once I have my breakfast and lunch in particular my BG would go up from say 7 and rise to 12 before dropping back to 7 at lunchtime. After lunch same again going from 7 and up to 12 before dropping down to 6 or 7 at dinner.
This would mean my average glucose for the day was sitting anywhere between 8.4 and 8.9 according to my Libre
Because of my disappointment 10 days ago with my HB1AC I decided to still have same breakfast and lunch but at dinner have some potoato or rice, adjusting Novorapid. My overnights BG improved greatly with fairly flat lines overnight.
Guess what my BG has improved to the point for the first time ever this morning my average BG showed for the last 7 days as 7.8. Whoooooo Hoooooooo a milestone for me. Maybe not the great BG you guys can get but for me that was a major milestone.
And how did I celebrate, went to bed on a 6.7 woke up at 2.30 with a 7.7, took small correction dose and woke up to 12.2. Had brekkie and correction dose at 7am, by 10 am sitting at 13.6, another large correction dose and finally at 12.30 down to 6.9. Of course this has bu ggered up my 7 days average glucose and I am back to 8.0
Oh well back to drawing board
PS hope you are still awake after reading my life story
Not been on much since my 6 monthly check which left me completely deflated. Although my HB had come down slightly considering the effort I put in was very disappointed. So the story of last 10 days.........
For around 35 years with my type 1 I trundled along not paying as much attention as i should to my condition. A few years ago I started putting in more effort, more testing. At end of April this year I went on DAFNE course and what an eye opener. Since then its been lots of effort watching what I am eating lots more testing and doing correction doses, something I had never done previously
I also started low carbing of sorts. Mon--Fri all I would have was cereal for brekkie, salads or soup for lunch, so around 40 g carbs and 20 g carbs then dinner. I had completeley cut out bread, potatoes rice and pasta, so dinner was chicken, meat, etc with loads of veg so typically 20 g of carbs. On the plus side I managed to lose around 4 kg in first few months though I have since put 1kg back
At weekends I need my cereal, 40 g my 2 bacon rolls for lunch, 60g and my chinese, or Indian meal with rice so around 120g of carbs
In June I got my Libre and I love it, sort of
I was finding on many occasions however that i was going to bed with a BG of 6 and waking up at 4 with a BG of 7.5 then by 6.30 it could be hitting 11 or 12. Dawn phenomenon. Sometimes I would take a correction, sometimes it worked others it did not
My ratios are quite high on Novorapid breakfast is 1:4 lunch and dinner is 1:5, with Levemir morning and before bed
Once I have my breakfast and lunch in particular my BG would go up from say 7 and rise to 12 before dropping back to 7 at lunchtime. After lunch same again going from 7 and up to 12 before dropping down to 6 or 7 at dinner.
This would mean my average glucose for the day was sitting anywhere between 8.4 and 8.9 according to my Libre
Because of my disappointment 10 days ago with my HB1AC I decided to still have same breakfast and lunch but at dinner have some potoato or rice, adjusting Novorapid. My overnights BG improved greatly with fairly flat lines overnight.
Guess what my BG has improved to the point for the first time ever this morning my average BG showed for the last 7 days as 7.8. Whoooooo Hoooooooo a milestone for me. Maybe not the great BG you guys can get but for me that was a major milestone.
And how did I celebrate, went to bed on a 6.7 woke up at 2.30 with a 7.7, took small correction dose and woke up to 12.2. Had brekkie and correction dose at 7am, by 10 am sitting at 13.6, another large correction dose and finally at 12.30 down to 6.9. Of course this has bu ggered up my 7 days average glucose and I am back to 8.0
Oh well back to drawing board
PS hope you are still awake after reading my life story
I do pre bolus. In the past that has been about 10 mins or so before meals, now doing at least 20-30 minutes before meals but makes little difference.@smc4761 get real! We all have ‘excursions’
As for the post meal rises, have you looked at pre-bolusing?
Welcome back!
Our bodies are like orchestras with miscreant players, yesterday's sound and recording differs from today's. What to do ? Make a mobile of CDs?Yep. Diabetes would be much easier if our BG was only affected by carbs.
You think you’ve got it sussed then Bamm! You miss the bus and end up walking/running further, your boss decides you need “a challenge” and you end up getting stressed, you celebrate a good day with a glass (or two) of wine, the sun is out so it’s warmer, the weather turns and it’s colder, you fancy/deserve a lie in, the moon is in the third phase of ascendency, you wore red today, your lipstick wears off too early, your friend has the cutest puppy, your Mum calls when you in the middle of cooking, the comedian on the telly was so funny you nearly pee yourself, the bake off cakes tonight look amazing, ...
Some may think some of these things don’t matter but diabetes is so fickle, I am pretty sure they all affect our BG.
Yep. Diabetes would be much easier if our BG was only affected by carbs.
You think you’ve got it sussed then Bamm! You miss the bus and end up walking/running further, your boss decides you need “a challenge” and you end up getting stressed, you celebrate a good day with a glass (or two) of wine, the sun is out so it’s warmer, the weather turns and it’s colder, you fancy/deserve a lie in, the moon is in the third phase of ascendency, you wore red today, your lipstick wears off too early, your friend has the cutest puppy, your Mum calls when you in the middle of cooking, the comedian on the telly was so funny you nearly pee yourself, the bake off cakes tonight look amazing, ...
Some may think some of these things don’t matter but diabetes is so fickle, I am pretty sure they all affect our BG.
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