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Morning my lovelies. Highs and lows all round, people with lancreases just have no idea how it is to live with this **** condition, even if they live with us and see the ups and downs, they don’t know what it FEELS like.

Woke to my high alarm early morning and corrected, in the high fours/low fives now. Going to adjust my basal rate for tonight now I have reliable data for a rise at that time. Relatively quiet day planned today, doing some design work for a bangle commission.

@Cumberland - oh no, are you ok lovely?
 
Tony337 said:
Morning
4.1 at 5.30am
Yesterday was just one of those days.
Low all day no matter what I did.
I ate a skip full of food and still went to bed eating a chocolate bar and still 4.1 this morning!!

Another day another dollar.........have a top Monday

Tony
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Another day another dollar minus VAT !!
 
Good morning. Strange night last night! Went to bed on a 7.3, thought i would do a quick scan befor sleeping and had a 15 with a straight up arrow! Why???? Large correction dose and fell asleep. Woke this morning to an 11.1, not great BUT could have been worst. Now sat on a 6.5 :)
 
Mel dCP said:
Morning my lovelies. Highs and lows all round, people with lancreases just have no idea how it is to live with this **** condition, even if they live with us and see the ups and downs, they don’t know what it FEELS like.

Woke to my high alarm early morning and corrected, in the high fours/low fives now. Going to adjust my basal rate for tonight now I have reliable data for a rise at that time. Relatively quiet day planned today, doing some design work for a bangle commission.

@Cumberland - oh no, are you ok lovely?
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Diabetes is a spelling test !!
 
Cumberland said:
Spent the night in A&E
Absolutely disgraceful
I’ll say nowt more but complaints been phoned in to PALS and I have asked for feedback from A&E Matron
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Oh @Cumberland, I’m sorry you’ve had such a tough time - your post is lucid - phew - hope what took you there is getting sorted. And that the night in a hospital hasn’t made it, and your bs, worse! Let us know how you are now, please.
 
Fairygodmother said:
I know, I know, flat line, two words, ok? My libre screen’s small and I’ve not got any of the superdooper tech to transfer it to a bigger screen so it looked flat as a pre-Galileo world this morning. And yes, I’m still breathing, walking, talking, getting cross with politicians, hiding from the naughty world, being a nuisance et al.
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So.. situation normal. Good to hear !!
 
Mel dCP said:
Morning all! The final glass of wine wasn’t as dry as I’d expected so I spent the night in double figures. No alarm because I’d turned the volume on my phone too low... corrected and am now in the low fours, so that went well. Not. Pottering around Marlborough today...
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Dry wine is an oxymoron. But the French call it Chablis to avoid confusion !!!
 
becca59 said:
Just been asking my husband the very same thing. Why a raise between 12 and 4am last night requiring a correction? Had not had any insulin, food or drink after 2pm. Very similar to most days. Sometimes stay straight as a die on the Libre and sometimes have a hypo! There is no accounting for it. I eat pretty low carb and my meals are very consistent. My activity levels are also pretty consistent. This whole condition has a mind of its own. And let’s face it it often has little to do with what you eat.
Makes you want to go away and stuff your face with delicious carbs.
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I blame dreams which can be stressful, horrific, uplifting or happy-making. We seldom remember them but our body, teeth and BSL reflect their effect.
 
kev-w said:
Morning y'all :p a waking 10.5 for me tho I had 1u about 4am as I was up at 14, my basal's tweaked for exercise and I've only been to the gym once this week so I guess I was pre-warned :)

Another day emptying the sheds and garage, downside is with the sun being out I can't have a little bonfire.

Enjoy the weather!
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? Save it for Guy Fawkes night. Just not near the Parliament !
 
Thought for the day: Time is not of the essence, Timing is.
Physiotherapy session today went well. I need to learn to tilt my pelvis and improve the internal rotation of my hips. Sounds like a new dance. Music for it anybody ?? Wait , what about.. "When I'm 64" - Beatles for starters?
 
Must get geared up for a friend’s birthday lunch - she’s battier than a baby peanut. I have a lovely Aldi use-again bag with the legend ‘Nuttier than a fruitcake’ but even I can’t put the cyclamen I’ve got her in that. Picking up the next libres on the way so promises to be a good day
 
Mel dCP said:
Morning my lovelies. Highs and lows all round, people with lancreases just have no idea how it is to live with this **** condition, even if they live with us and see the ups and downs, they don’t know what it FEELS like.

Woke to my high alarm early morning and corrected, in the high fours/low fives now. Going to adjust my basal rate for tonight now I have reliable data for a rise at that time. Relatively quiet day planned today, doing some design work for a bangle commission.

@Cumberland - oh no, are you ok lovely?
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Mel
I am feeling better thank you
Just a horrific experience
 
Fairygodmother said:
Oh @Cumberland, I’m sorry you’ve had such a tough time - your post is lucid - phew - hope what took you there is getting sorted. And that the night in a hospital hasn’t made it, and your bs, worse! Let us know how you are now, please.
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FG kind words thank you much appreciated
I’m feeling better x
 
Do you flesh your sox? (like pulling the pelt off a rabbit, turning sox partly inside out to set the sox up for putting on)?
Oh ! Oh ! The 'borgs might rust in the washing machine !! To waterproof them make up an equal part mix of olive oil and ammonia and mix the sox in, rinse and dry. Store them in grease proof paper well away from other clothes.
On the other hand other I did this for a canoe trip in August (Aussie mid winter) with heavy woollen sox. The sox were sooo cold and slid on like an oily sleeve - yuck !! So .. second thoughts let them rust if they are going to. Oily sox might prevent blisters but the sensation is too weird !!
 
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