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Goodmorning everyone another night of hypos for me have done a few basal tests and they seem fine so im at a bit of a loss if i drop basal by just 1/2 a unit i see numbers rising throughout the night although in range by morning i am very sensitive to insulin this diabetes lark is a mystery to me at times anyway enjoy the rest of your weekend everyone
 
Morning all.
Lovely sunny day here in the East Mids.
Dexcom said 6.1 meter said 6.7. More than happy with that. It’s gonna need a reboot soon but seems to be working good at moment.
Bit of a dilemma. Last day of week off so do me and the wife stay in and have breakfast OR do we just nip out for a full English? Decisions decisions.





Will let you know later how breakfast went, when I get back;)
 
Morning and a Happy Sunday:)
I see a couple of you have had low's ( hope you get then back in line soon) well.............. I woke up on a high :mad: so a small correction for me, no breakfast and an early lunch or brunch as I start ( that 4 letter word :nailbiting:) at 12.15 :rolleyes:
Another beautiful sunny day here with more blue skies :happy:
 
Morning you lovely collection of holes! ;)

Have to say I’m quite cbuffed with myself, considering I had quite a lot to drink last night, had to completely carbs guess my takeaway dinner and did a fair bit more physical activity than I’m used to yesterday. Was expecting hypos galore. Heading back home to South Wales today, after I’ve been to the lovely market here to stock up on sheep/goat cheese and tahini, plus proper halloumi from the Turkish Cypriot shop that doesn’t contain flippin’ cows milk. The proper stuff isn’t allowed to but the stuff made for the British market usually does.

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Wishing you all a lovely day - @Knikki sounds like half a unit less would definitely be worth a try!
 
Morning all,

My blood sugars behaved rather well yesterday, which was nice, that 7 units of levemir worked better when I carb loaded when I went for a walk in the morning.

It's too good to be true, it can't last, but I'll enjoy it while it's here.
 
helensaramay said:
Morning fellow strainers
Woke a bit low this morning which, along with my leggings still being damp, excused me from gymming.
Waking with a hypo next to my sleeping boyfriend, reminds me of a thread I was reading and raises a question.
What do you think about living alone with type 1?
The first 8 years of stabbing, I lived alone and handled day and night hypos myself.
I now have a partner who sleeps through my night hypos and is oblivious to some of my day time ones.
I work from home, alone. I go on business trips and stay in hotels, alone.
I am incredibly independent and won't let diabetes take that away from me and shackle me to a partner.
However, I have read some threads recently which suggests I am putting myself in danger in doing so.
What do you guys think?
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While having a hypo one time tommy told me to have a lie on the couch and did he want him to bring my insulin over..NO TOMMY .most times i have hypoed ive been on my own due to our working patterns and ive managed fine i think im actually more calmer when alone
 
helensaramay said:
Morning fellow strainers
Woke a bit low this morning which, along with my leggings still being damp, excused me from gymming.
Waking with a hypo next to my sleeping boyfriend, reminds me of a thread I was reading and raises a question.
What do you think about living alone with type 1?
The first 8 years of stabbing, I lived alone and handled day and night hypos myself.
I now have a partner who sleeps through my night hypos and is oblivious to some of my day time ones.
I work from home, alone. I go on business trips and stay in hotels, alone.
I am incredibly independent and won't let diabetes take that away from me and shackle me to a partner.
However, I have read some threads recently which suggests I am putting myself in danger in doing so.
What do you guys think?
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Well............I'm divorced, and I had a few hypos when I was married, and wasn't rescued from any of them by my ex-husband.

I think I'm probably just more careful living alone. I have libre now, so knowing what my blood sugar is doing is extremely easy, but prior to that I tested a lot, but, I dunno, I have an independent attitude when it comes to my diabetes, and I've always been like that.

Other people are different,and there's nothing wrong with that, people are how they are, and should be allowed to share the care with a partner if they want to.

I do remember years ago an awful story from a different ex, about a work colleague, whose wife had type 1 diabetes, and he injected for her, and was very involved in her care, think she was a teacher, so she wasn't disabled, or anything, it's just what they chose. But one day he went out a train spotting journey, and injected her insulin for her in the morning, as he always did, and when he came back she was dead. It was really quite shocking. So I think that story might well have reinforced my belief in being completely in charge of it yourself.
 
Good morning y'all, a waking 7.7 but to 8.7 with feet on the floor and in minutes, and extra u of insulin today too for my porridge, swimming late lunch or this aft with child depending how breakfast works out. @Knikki does your Libre line show a slope down of around 30 degrees down a couple of hour before you wake? If you move it to morning expect a few days 'pain' :) @helensaramay I've lived both ways, with girlfriends, and alone and also alone with children of 5 and 6 up to past school leaving age (and my 12 year old's survived a week here with me today) so I don't know about danger, I'm enjoying myself as a singly right now, I've had a couple of recentish bad sleeping lows but I've woken to treat them eventually.

Edit, I'm planning a Morrocco trip for the new year, probably alone, it means flying to Spain, getting a bus to a ferry port, a ferry then another bus to the mountains then a little taxi to Chefchaouen A friend 'may' be up for it but in my head I'm planning it as a singly and pretty confident I can get there, getting back's another question mind :)
 
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Morning collanders. Well just to be different I had a pretty poor night mainly due to overestimating the carbs in nan bread with my takeaway. Was looking good all day had dinner, and BG started to drop slowly, so far so good. About 9pm it took a pretty big drop in short period and continued to do so. Handful of jelly beans and 20 minutes later still continuing to drop quickly OOOOps so coffee with 2 sugar and choccy biscuit, still dropping, now down at 3.6, which for me is pretty low. So more coffee and sugar and 2 biscuits this time and finally 25 mins later back to 5.5.

Of course the carbs then take there revenge, I am feeling bagged up and sickly. Off to bed with indigestion and woke up at 3am to a lovely 16.1. Slapped in 6 units which only brought me down to 13.1 when I got up.

Oh well bad start to day, just had porridge, correction dose and now off to Sainsburys, rock n roll:singing::singing::singing::singing:
 
@kev-w HMMM thanks for the warning but I think for the moment I might just drop my night time by 1/2 unit see what that does.

@helensaramay Like you "diabetes is just something I have" and won't stop me from doing anything and now I have moved insulins and have Etch A Sketch (4 points out between it and bloods :rolleyes: ) my night times are OK, Yes yes I know I have been technically hypo but some of the ones I have had previously have been really bad. So on the whole I feel OK about being left on my own.
Saying that Mrs Knikki has certainly saved me on on more than one occasion when I was not expecting things to happen the way they did and was very glad she was there. We sort of look after each other, she has medical issues like I have so we wonder around like a pair of old crocks supporting each other :hilarious:
TBH I couldn't imagine living on my own now, it would be very strange plus also taking in to account somethings that have happened in the past it does raise the question as to would I still be here or in any fit state to be rambling on here in this forum if Mrs Knikki had not been around :wideyed:

Actually, I would rather not think about that.
 
helensaramay said:
Morning fellow strainers
Woke a bit low this morning which, along with my leggings still being damp, excused me from gymming.
Waking with a hypo next to my sleeping boyfriend, reminds me of a thread I was reading and raises a question.
What do you think about living alone with type 1?
The first 8 years of stabbing, I lived alone and handled day and night hypos myself.
I now have a partner who sleeps through my night hypos and is oblivious to some of my day time ones.
I work from home, alone. I go on business trips and stay in hotels, alone.
I am incredibly independent and won't let diabetes take that away from me and shackle me to a partner.
However, I have read some threads recently which suggests I am putting myself in danger in doing so.
What do you guys think?
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I think it depends on each of us, our personal experience and how manageable our diabetes is. Until my husband died I'd always lived with someone ever since diagnosis. However, just like you I worked from home alone, travelled and stayed away for work across the UK and Europe. There's a big 'but' though, which is that I tended to run my bgs a bit on the high side. I've also only ever had one hypo that needed medical intervention and I'm pretty sure I know what caused it and haven't done that again! :) My husband did actually ask me what I wanted him to do, by which time I had no idea....good job he used some initiative and called an ambulance!
Now I live on my own, I find the Libre helps but even before that I've thought very little about being in danger. All kinds of things could happen to any of us really.....
 
helensaramay said:
Morning fellow strainers
Woke a bit low this morning which, along with my leggings still being damp, excused me from gymming.
Waking with a hypo next to my sleeping boyfriend, reminds me of a thread I was reading and raises a question.
What do you think about living alone with type 1?
The first 8 years of stabbing, I lived alone and handled day and night hypos myself.
I now have a partner who sleeps through my night hypos and is oblivious to some of my day time ones.
I work from home, alone. I go on business trips and stay in hotels, alone.
I am incredibly independent and won't let diabetes take that away from me and shackle me to a partner.
However, I have read some threads recently which suggests I am putting myself in danger in doing so.
What do you guys think?
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I was living alone for 8 years. Had one severe hypo where I convinced myself I was dead!! My fiancee is a life saver, she knows when I am lo and knows how to treat (or phone 999 lol).
Woke to an alarm at 7am with a 3.9. I tried porridge this morning. Not the good for you stick @kev-w it was the toffee apple one from asda. 0nly 49 gms of carbs. Now sitting on a 7.7 so pretty happy
 
Afternoon (just!) everyone, McDonald’s last night - why oh why??!?! Should have looked up the carbs for it! Underestimated obviously, corrected before going to bed, woke 3hrs later hypo, did think about getting up out of bed to test, no I’ll just have glucotabs first and then get up and test in 10mins or so........woke up much much later and 6.8 :)
 
helensaramay said:
Morning fellow strainers
Woke a bit low this morning which, along with my leggings still being damp, excused me from gymming.
Waking with a hypo next to my sleeping boyfriend, reminds me of a thread I was reading and raises a question.
What do you think about living alone with type 1?
The first 8 years of stabbing, I lived alone and handled day and night hypos myself.
I now have a partner who sleeps through my night hypos and is oblivious to some of my day time ones.
I work from home, alone. I go on business trips and stay in hotels, alone.
I am incredibly independent and won't let diabetes take that away from me and shackle me to a partner.
However, I have read some threads recently which suggests I am putting myself in danger in doing so.
What do you guys think?
Click to expand...

Up until recently I did not give it a great deal of thought. I go away several times per year into the middle of no where off season staying a hostels in north west highlands of Scotland or Outer Hebrides. Generally I will be alone in hostel, or maybe just one other person. I go out all day walking, birdwatching and see very few people. I have had a few scary moments with silly lows, but I am always well prepared, 2 bottles of lucozade, biscuits, sweets chocolate and very regular blood testing.

Like you I am fiercely independent and will not type 1 limit me in what I do, with some obvious exceptions.

I did have my first hypo a few weeks ago, first in about 12 years where I did need assistance, luckily I was staying with a friend who was a paramedic. So I think this is now at back of my mind

I am just waiting for a spell of dryish weather ( I could be in for a long wait) and I will go away for 3/4 days to north west highlands. Putting on my sensible head I think even with Libre, I will let myself run higher than normal for those few days.

To be honest simply going outside you could potentially put yourself in danger. Just be prepared, asses any risk, know your limits and know when to stop and treat yourself
 
@slip Afternoon bro. Was this “ old McDonalds farm “ last night or that “American”eatery a guy your age should no better than to visit?
Liking the laid back hypo style. A few tabs and see how it goes:).

Did breakfast this morning. Full English out, tried a new place, well at least we’ve been once:banghead:
It wasn’t the best but hey ho. We live and learn.
Off to punish my weary old body up the gym shortly.
Enjoy what’s left of the weekend everyone.
 
@helensaramay
My husband travels a fair bit but even when he is around all he notices of hypos is "you're testing a fair bit tonight..." Child has been told how to call an ambulance if I won't wake up and main instruction is to tell whoever answers that I'm diabetic.
I feel I'm better off just relying on myself somehow. No disasters as yet.
 
Oh and Brighton in the sunshine today. Nice!
 
I’m on my second husband since diabetes, I’ve always dealt with nighttime stuff alone, although my high alarms tend to wake him before me. He’s always taken an interest in my management etc, especially the food side of things as he loves to cook, and is happy for me to bore on about it, although the clinical decisions are mine alone. He prefers this to when I was in burnout and not taking care of it at all, we had a very frank discussion about it last week. If I’m talking about it, I’m engaged with it, and keeping it under control. I spend a lot of time alone, so need to be able to manage without help. Always have. The first husband wasn’t particularly interested once the initial flurry of the diagnosis died down, although he’d get hypo stuff for me if I needed it.

Having said that... now I have the cyborg accessories he does follow me via Spike, so gets an alarm if I drop below 2.8 - he then phones me to check I’m ok, and if I don’t respond he’d call for help. We set this up when I first got the Omnipod as I had absolutely no idea what to expect in the settling-in period, but it does give me peace of mind knowing we have that. Teeenage son is also extremely well versed in what to do in a diabetic emergency, he’s saved my life twice by calling an ambulance when I went into DKA - he was only 7 at the time. Also, he likes stabbing my fingers...
 
helensaramay said:
However, I have read some threads recently which suggests I am putting myself in danger in doing so.
What do you guys think?
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A deep hypo can be life threatening for the very young and very old, but I reckon for most of us who are in otherwise decent health with our livers and muscles well stocked with a decent amount of glycogen, our otherwise busted endocrine systems will pull us out of it - yay, those alpha cells!

Of course, there will be exceptions, and it only takes one, but it would be unhealthy to worry about it.

That recent short paper by Gibb et al about the a1c reductions in Edinburgh pre and post libre mentioned at the end that the libre impact on quality of life shouldn't be underestimated. I find the security of my blinged libre means I don't really worry about hypos anymore, because I can see them coming and stop them before they happen. That's where the future lies and why non-funding ccgs should be ashamed of themselves.

PS: with your penchant for climbing, keep an eye open for beers by Top Out Brewery. I'm having a quiet bottle of their wheat beer in my local at the moment. The label explains that their other passion is climbing, which is why the label is a contour map showing the route to "top out" An Teallach. A dozen to choose from, all with a different mountain.

https://www.topoutbrewery.com
 
I'm back from a brill little trip to Port Meirion, gorgeous place, magic food, great walks. Horrid driving home along the M6, speed restrictions caused hyper stress levels.........10.2!!!! at the M6 toll service.

I think I might have to chill for a while after my next stress enhancer at the dentist tomorrow. I pay for so much high blood glucose and also blood pressure.

On the positive side, the courier left 75 tulips for me in the porch. Yay!! so I bet you know what I'm doing Monday afternoon.

Hope everyone has a great week
 
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