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Flu vaccination went well. Drank plenty of water throughout the day and would hardly know I’d had it. However, I have spent the night chomping on Jelly Babies and am still low this morning. No three am surge and no foot on the floor rocket. Actually ate breakfast before insulin. Unheard of. So I expect the vaccination dropped my levels. Which I have to say is not the usual way around for me. But I am never low in the mornings.
Dentist this morning. That will up things I’m sure.
 
Woke on 6.8 and feeling v tired.
Now at work 5.4 supping coffee and debating a biscuit.
I'm on some new to me GF stem ginger ones from asda and it says they are 13g per biscuit yet they taste v sweet and effect my levels like they are nearer 20g per biscuit.
Lovely though lol

Tony
 
becca59 said:
Flu vaccination went well. Drank plenty of water throughout the day and would hardly know I’d had it. However, I have spent the night chomping on Jelly Babies and am still low this morning. No three am surge and no foot on the floor rocket. Actually ate breakfast before insulin. Unheard of. So I expect the vaccination dropped my levels. Which I have to say is not the usual way around for me. But I am never low in the mornings.
Dentist this morning. That will up things I’m sure.
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It never fails to amaze me how different we all are - in our reactions to vaccines, the same food, the effect of stress etc etc. Whoever coined the phrase 'the only type of diabetes you have is yours' got that right!
Good luck at the dentist's @becca59
 
I woke on 6.2 this morning and then i started to rise but my stroll in to work brought it back down and i'm at 5.4 as i type.
I was looking at my libre and i stayed steady all night and said to myself "what a lovely graph" .....

I giggled a bit and i wonder has anyone posted a thread about things only a diabetic would say?

Some of my own faves

" thats filth that is" when i see the staffroom at school when its someones birthday and they bring in those awful donuts covered in icing that were made 8 weeks ago theres about 12 of the buggers they make me gip!

"i'd need an armful of insulin for that" commenting on someones plate at a restaraunt.

"lets see what the lady libre has to say" even after 10 years i am in awe of my libre
and along the same lines i oft mutter " 4 millimeters " as i'm jabbing myself

Have a fantastic Friday everybody and please do forgive my madness

Tony
 
For some reason it is bugging me, lately my doctors are using the term for my endo as the person who manages my diabetes. No one manages my diabetes but me lol, she just write the prescriptions I need and orders bloodwork. She herself has said she would never tell a person with 96% TIR what to do. I realize some people do need "managed" and they also need a term to refer to the person that looks at my bloodwork and I guess overseeing what care I might ever need, but they used to say your endo. There is not a good reason why this is annoying me. But it sort of feels like the care I take to have such good control is because of an endo's management? I do not like the new verbage!

I'll get over it I'm sure... or not lol, but more than one doctor has used it, so they have decided it's the term now to use!
 
@Marie 2 that would definitely rile me. For some people in the UK actually getting to see someone in person is as rare as hens teeth. I myself had phone calls since pre pandemic and though meant to see my consultant this year, I am still waiting. To have that person referred to as the person who manages my diabetes would be a no no! The only person doing that is me.
 
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