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Afternoon. The amazing holiday I am having in Norfolk comes to an end today. Travel home tomorrow. No great shakes, walking, birding, reading, spending time with my amazing supportive husband and eating lovely food and drink and not stressing about it. Hey, if the higher levels knock a a week off my life it has been more than worth it. I am sure it is all balanced out by less stress and 7-8 hours sleep a night.

The only bug bear has been the dogs who have felt the need to run and jump up me. Today’s dog had already passed by once and ignored me. Then from a good distance away (could barely see it) it decided to turn around and run hell for leather towards me. We by now had a wind behind us wafting aromas towards the dog. I folded my arms and turned around as suggested. Made no difference! Anyway had a moment of inspiration and think it may be the musk Body Shop perfume I adorn myself with each morning. It will be left to special indoor occasions in future.

Back to grandson duties, gardening, decorating, swimming and stressing about my levels next week.
 
Mel dCP said:
From what a little light googling tells me, Toujeo is basically triple strength Lantus. They are both insulin glargine, but Lantus is at a strength of 100 units per millilitre, while Tuojeo is 300u/ml.

Thanx Mel dCP . I've been finding Lantus either a unit too strong or a unit too weak to help me keep nicely stable, am shattered from exercising, if I take a little extra fast acting ( to keep meal sugars neat) my weight explodes! Am about to try tuojeo in my quest for better balance...
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You can get refillable half unit pens (usually only given to children, but adults can have them on request) if a one unit change is too much or too little. Might be worth a try?
 
kev-w said:
Yeah morning basal now, that moved the drop to an afternoon/teatime and I can handle that, my teatime food is requiring an extra couple of u now, if I move it it'll be to lunchtime but..... :)
The book would say to drop carbs I guess, but then I'd be looking at weight loss so the option doesn't compute.



It's the what to do next bit isn't it :) split dose is quite appealing at the moment but I've never split basal and aren't particularly enthusiastic about the idea.
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Kev - I'm obviously not telling you to do anything, but if you dropped the carbs a bit, but increased the fat a bit, would you still lose weight? I'm thinking something simple like a dollop of extra thick double cream in your brekkers porridge could readily add some calories?
 
kev-w said:
Morning y'all and Mels cat to the 20.1 I woke at 6 with :(

At this moment in time I see a return to Lantus on the horizon as although my HBa1C is showing at 47 I'm 'bouncing' too much for my liking, I was 6.4 at bed time and only had a 90g carbs tea and no supper.
My lunchtime swim's looking very precarious right now...
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Hugs kev
 
Knikki said:
Us arriving @helensaramay

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Hilarious
 
Productive day (work-wise).

Lovely straight line on the Libre- just needs to be lower. So many small corrections given today. After Fridays hypo I resisted rage bolusing.

Going to change my insulin cartridge (although its fairly newish). Not eaten many carbs but probably doesn’t helped that I’ve been sat at my desk for the best part of the day.

Time to meal prep for the week
 
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DCUKMod said:
Kev - I'm obviously not telling you to do anything, but if you dropped the carbs a bit, but increased the fat a bit, would you still lose weight? I'm thinking something simple like a dollop of extra thick double cream in your brekkers porridge could readily add some calories?
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To be honest I avoid saturated fats as best I can, what I think's happening is that the insulins profile is very different to the Lantus, and the 20 odd years I used that let me work my way round it, this is different and a smaller dose, I changed as I was having some issues with Lantus and I'd bet that's down to me aging and my body changing, so new insulin, same body changes, another angle is teatime, I can drift quite late with tea which is nice, but then the active insulin isn't used up by bedtime so I miss an adjustment, injection sites also as I probably need to find new parts of my legs having been rather complacent as of late :)

A work in progress frustratingly, but I've been here before, last nights 21 was the first in 9 months so I guess I'm still winning more than losing, in a roundabout sort of way :)

Didn't bother swimming, settled at 6.8 and I could see no reason for provoking it....
 
Back to Sunday Work today after a week off. The organ is now working again, so I had fun testing it all out properly. House Guest left today so I'm enjoying having my own space again. Much as it's been lovely having company for a few weeks, long-term, I really do prefer to live alone. And manage my blood sugars alone as well.

Back to Main Paid Job tomorrow - training day with no training, so hoping to hide in a corner and get on with a million and one small tasks which will make the next seven weeks easier. Plus, I want to play with some of our larger power tools without students around! Not sure what frightens them more, me on the power tools, or me driving a car... they tend to scuttle for cover on both occasions.
 
I think hanging around with you guys is rubbing off on me.
This morning porridge and a swim.
This afternoon knitting and stiching hexagons for a patchwork blanket.
Yesterday tools and prep for bathroom painting.
Cake was consumed.
If I start kite flying and climbing/bread making I'll know something odd is happening.
 
DCUKMod said:
I'm thinking something simple like a dollop of extra thick double cream in your brekkers porridge could readily add some calories?
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Whoah, sacrilege! The only thing which should be added to porridge is salt. If we went down the cream route, we'd have lost WWII, and we'd all be reading the Guardian by now, and that never ends well...
 
Scott-C said:
Whoah, sacrilege! The only thing which should be added to porridge is salt. If we went down the cream route, we'd have lost WWII, and we'd all be reading the Guardian by now, and that never ends well...
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As a thoroughbred Scot, I've obviously just been excommunicated.

Maybe I won't be allowed into Edinburgh at the end of the month. Oh well, and it seemed such an interesting conference too...........
 
DCUKMod said:
As a thoroughbred Scot, I've obviously just been excommunicated.

Maybe I won't be allowed into Edinburgh at the end of the month. Oh well, and it seemed such an interesting conference too...........
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Nah, nah, dcukmod, once a Scot always a Scot, even if you live England-side (although my nephew who is now in Kent has developed an unhealthy interest in cricket, so I might need to disown him..)!

I'm in Edinburgh, what's the conference about?

The hospitals here have one of the most liberal libre policies anywhere - if you're T1 you get it.

Here's a link to ECED, Edinburgh Centre for Endocrinology and Diabetes, a collaboration of the main hospitals in the area.

http://www.edinburghdiabetes.com

They're doing some interesting stuff. Dr Fraser Gibb at RIE has been pushing out some data on how a1c has been dropping substantially and safely in the first 300 or so peeps on libre. Dr Debbie Wake at WGH is rolling out her online MyDiabetesMyWay records tracking gig to England and abroad.

Can't find the link now, but there's also some dark stuff going on with islet transplants too.

Foodwise, if you're low carbing, Ondine on George IV Bridge in the centre of the old town does some pretty decent seafood:

https://www.ondinerestaurant.co.uk

The Outsider further down the Bridge is also an excellent place to eat, but maybe not so low carb, but there's a few options there which you could stitch together:

http://www.theoutsiderrestaurant.com
 
Scott-C said:
Nah, nah, dcukmod, once a Scot always a Scot, even if you live England-side (although my nephew who is now in Kent has developed an unhealthy interest in cricket, so I might need to disown him..)!
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Scotland have beaten England at cricket recently...
 
Diakat said:
I think hanging around with you guys is rubbing off on me.
This morning porridge and a swim.
This afternoon knitting and stiching hexagons for a patchwork blanket.
Yesterday tools and prep for bathroom painting.
Cake was consumed.
If I start kite flying and climbing/bread making I'll know something odd is happening.
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Hi @Diakat, yes I am odd but that is probably because of all the endorphins I generate from kite flying.
If you are serious about it please look at my-best-kite.com.
 
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