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I’ve just started a new Libre sensor, decided to try my upper chest to give my arm a rest for a month or so. Last reading off my old one was 5.6, Spike will read it for over an hour after it officially expires, which covers the warm up of the new one.

First reading on the new sensor? 5.6 :couchpotato:
 
Mel dCP said:
I’ve just started a new Libre sensor, decided to try my upper chest to give my arm a rest for a month or so. Last reading off my old one was 5.6, Spike will read it for over an hour after it officially expires, which covers the warm up of the new one.

First reading on the new sensor? 5.6 :couchpotato:
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Super stuff. But what I really want to know is if the Plaid gang led you astray?
 
smc4761 said:
Hi Alison thanks for the advice, always willing to try anything to help. I tend to spike after breakfast and lunch but after evening meal its generally not as bad. I also tend to have just the one course, meat and veg around 6pm then a coffee and couple ryvita or crackers around 7.30 and thats me until around 7am the next morning.

Lots of people seemed to have success with low carb diets and I gave it a go. However more often than not, I was experiencing dawn phenomenon. I checked my old BG meter readings, when I was having a normal carb evening meal, and found that generally my morning BG were similar to my before bed readings, no dawn phenomenon. So this has left me totally confused.

If only this diabetes lark was , eat that amount of carb take that amount of insulin to cover the carbs and perfect BG
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The choice of evening meal as an example, was only done because it was the easiest meal to describe, the method of avoiding spikes was not specific to that time.

However, I eat a lot of fruit, because I'm a ten a day person for fruit and veg, all those bio-active compounds have probably served me well over the years. But if you don't eat fruit, or have any way of dividing a meal, it's not much use to you, as a method.
 
helensaramay said:
I am struggling to work out where “upper chest” is.
It sounds like either on the boob which seems like a bad idea (and may be “lower chest”) or your pecs which don’t have much fat to insert the sensor into.
I am intrigued because I am considering trying somewhere else for my next sensor as I find stomach area (used for Dexcom) is inaccurate and starts to become intermittent after a couple of trips to the gym and back of arm is inconsistently inaccurate ... but never gets worse.
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I've seen a couple of photos of them put on the area just above the top of the breast, slightly to the side I think, towards the underarm.

It might work for you, because it's an area where there'd be less movement during physical activity.
 
CranberryIce said:
Morning all :)

Managed to stay in range most of the time whilst away with 28 9-10year olds. MM and Spike helped me divert many potential highs and lows

Exhaustion caught up with me when I got back and I accidentally gave a big dose of quick acting rather than my evening basal dose.

Scary low. As I have no hypo awareness (at the moment) I only realised once I hit 2.3 and was dropping quickly with IOB. By this point had the shakes and was getting very emotional. Thank god for my husband who was close by and kept testing and supplying me with food.

Woke on 8.1- happy with that as I was worried I had over over treated my low.

Today is for resting, sleeping, lazing around and maybe attempting to bake a low carb/keto cake.
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Have done that gig! Exhaustion is mandatory. Hope you had a good time. Bet they were up at the crack of dawn
Am in Keswick at the mo where I spent 4 very happy school trips. Was just reminiscing this morning as we passed the YMCA where we always stayed.
Have also done 4 trips to Malaga with 10/11 year olds. One of them 2 months after diagnosis. 4 trips to Whitby, 1 to Ingleborough, 1 to Haworth and 1 to a Center on the outskirts of Leeds. All with primary children. I have my stripes In that area. Always used to run higher than normal, as I was responsible for other people’s children and that was my overriding priority. Then would get myself back on track when home.
 
Alison54321 said:
I've seen a couple of photos of them put on the area just above the top of the breast, slightly to the side I think, towards the underarm.

It might work for you, because it's an area where there'd be less movement during physical activity.
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HMMMM knowing @Mel dCP that might mean "bra strap pinging" so watch out for the post of "stretched last night caught the whole lot with my strap, shot off and broke a window" :hilarious:

She is available for parties you know :hilarious:

~runs off and hides but giggling gives the hiding place away~
 
Robinredbreast said:
I never thought of my self as derailed ;) ll
Best wishes RRB :)
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Oops! I forgot you often used RRB - I just couldn't be bothered to write out Rail Replacement Bus again as I was so miffed at them!!

Anyway, I'm sure you're not the derailed freight train!
 
kev-w said:
Late night as my mate came round with his guitar and we had a jam, poor neighbours which was a laugh, some attempts at vocals were even funnier but we soon gave that bit up....
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A lot of people think their singing sounds worse than it really does.
 
In the meantime, I walked off my annoyance with my derailed plans for the weekend. 21.5 miles worth... Just the one very mild hypo stop at the 18 miles mark and I've risked chips this evening to see if I can get the split bolus right this time.
 
helensaramay said:
I am struggling to work out where “upper chest” is.
It sounds like either on the boob which seems like a bad idea (and may be “lower chest”) or your pecs which don’t have much fat to insert the sensor into.
I am intrigued because I am considering trying somewhere else for my next sensor as I find stomach area (used for Dexcom) is inaccurate and starts to become intermittent after a couple of trips to the gym and back of arm is inconsistently inaccurate ... but never gets worse.
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It’s here, easiest to just show a terrible photo than try to describe it! It’s flat there and doesn’t move or jiggle. Basically just above where the softness of a boob starts. It’s been comfortable for the last 24 hours, just need to remember where it is for scanning! Most bras would go to the side of it, so hopefully minimal pinging.

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Got a veggie low carb chilli on the hob, but am feeling quite nauseous, so not actually sure that eating it would be a great idea. Sugars stable all day, so I don’t think it’s a bug. We shall see!
 
How big was the bottle @Knikki? ;)

Frustrating day today, had 2 mild hypos already and dealt with thanks to xDrip warnings. Waiting to see if this continues before I look to change something or if I'm just having an odd day or two.

The Libre sensor I have on is effectively shot with 6 days to go as it's consistently reading at least 2mmol lower in LibreLink and has had me pegged as hypo (<3.0) most of the day. Thank goodness xDrip is recalibrating with opportunistic blood tests on the fly.
 
becca59 said:
Have done that gig! Exhaustion is mandatory. Hope you had a good time. Bet they were up at the crack of dawn
Am in Keswick at the mo where I spent 4 very happy school trips. Was just reminiscing this morning as we passed the YMCA where we always stayed.
Have also done 4 trips to Malaga with 10/11 year olds. One of them 2 months after diagnosis. 4 trips to Whitby, 1 to Ingleborough, 1 to Haworth and 1 to a Center on the outskirts of Leeds. All with primary children. I have my stripes In that area. Always used to run higher than normal, as I was responsible for other people’s children and that was my overriding priority. Then would get myself back on track when home.
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5th residential trip and by far the easiest one.

No bed time tears & no medical emergencies :)

Timetable was back to back and a very physical day so they were pretty worn out every evening. Lights out at 9.30pm ️
 
Juicyj said:
Running my first ever 10k today, been waking every week in target and today 12.7 :banghead: where did that come from !!
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Best of luck with your run today! Just had a text to tell me that my son’s birthday helicopter flight has been cancelled (we have him a voucher on the day in June, and today was the first date we could do), so just working out how to tell him... had to rearrange weekends with his dad to have him here for today, so it’s going to be a tricky one.
 
Morning all

MiaMia became inactive through the night so no alarms for my high. Woke on 10.1- no idea why. Will keep an eye on my over night line today, may need to do a basal test.
 
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