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What was your fasting blood glucose? (full on chat)

Wish I could join in. I can see now why hand-jive used to be popular - although it was usually done by young folk with no mobility issues, so maybe not. It's the best I could do now.
 
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Wish I could join in. I can see now why hand-jive used to be popular - although it was usually done by young folk with no mobility issues, so maybe not. It's the best I could do now.
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This version would be good to hand jive to, from the chair obs.. Probably better for the joints than Move More. Next level line dance or motivating for a sprint 6 on a spin bike for the more active (probs 4 x 15 secs sprints for me just now) @alf_Josiah I imagine you as a Sir Les Patterson tribute act but RIP Barry Humphries indeed.
 
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I was given a machine by the NHS here in Malta to test my bloods and I do not trust it.

This morning it said the following for the same pinprick with different test strips:

Too high to measure
9.1
11
30.4
9

It's done similar a lot and the NHS people here won't do anything about it. I guess I am going with 9 for this morning...last night I went from 7.9 before my meal to 8.1 after staying around 8 at 6 hours after my meal just before bed, so it's gone up overnight apparently.

I still can't get them down at the moment so will go back to the docs, maybe I need stronger metformin since I started perimenopaus, also been noticing meals I used to have no issues with are spiking me up by 4 or 5 instead of 2 (again if I can trust this machine).

I think I need to go by myself a decent blood monitor. Any recommendations?
 
Fbg 6.7

Wildlife nighttime camera

Cats & fox & badger
A busy night...


Creative is digital painting - Lighthouse #36
I received a couple of envelopes yesterday from my American pen friend with postcards of nearly 50 more lighthouses...

I put the peanuts out early for the foxes yesterday afternoon and put the SD cards early in the cameras as well, because I was expecting a parcel and I had to wait at the front window.
My parcel came at 6:30 pm, and when I went out to check everything at the back, all the peanuts are gone, so this seems to imply that the foxes came in daylight when I was at the front of the bungalow...

Time to feed the beasts, every scrap of food, including the cat food inside the bungalow has been eaten...

A cuppa tea first...

Have your best day...

 
Good to know that Foxes don’t have nut allergies and that parcels are arriving safe. Lighthouse California- you can enter but you can never leave. Smashing water effects.
 
All I can suggest about your current blood monitor is, does it need a new battery, and, are the testing strips not out of date.
I am currently using CareSens monitor and their testing strips, which is much better than the previous monitor I had @the-mental-one
 
Good morning everyone and welcome to that day of the year when people get all patriotic and start waving flags in memory of some 3rd century Turkish bloke, whose flag was adopted by England and the City of London in 1190 for their ships entering the Mediterranean to benefit from the protection of the Genoese fleet. Still, goes to show that we are all mongrels. Apart from me of course, I am descended from Charlemagne. Mrs Miggins was out last night - some ladies night out at a cabaret dinner thing. I made myself some hot and sour Tom Yum soup and put in a big dollop of Kimchi. No idea about today, will see what the actual weather is like and perhaps have a walk through the woods and down to the beach. Art bit, finished one of my doodles from last week and added some colour. Have a smashing day whatever you may be up to. I desperately now need koffy.


 
Hi

Not sure what a 'machine' is.
The one I use has no battery, more of a plunger, that I pull to prime, when using it .

Simple, efficient & very affordable regarding test strips.

I'm sure points been made none are particularly accurate.
(15% +/- )

Same test, same machine, same finger a minute later would likely show a different reading as did yours.

Once I understood my 'usual' range I rarely test twice in morning unless it's completely unexpected.

Most benefit of a meter is the testing pre meal then two hours after for any tweaks that might be needed to improve results

As in less of one item or it's complete removal, & portion size might be another to juggle with.

The morning BG is the last to go down.

And many get dawn phenomenon, where our livers dumps glucose to help power us through the early part of the day.

I now see the morning test as measuring a trend...hopefully downwards to the 6/5 zones.


meter I use is from home health , the gluco navvi...more then happy with it

@Rachox does a good run down on BG meters, many find useful.

Oh, and welcome to the thread
 
Morning team on national alarm day

Not posted a BG for a few days, busy busy.

Been a good smattering of low range 5's & the occasional 6 so happy with that .

I won't be doing similar,, but I've noted others are choosing to turn off alarm alert test for today 3pm.

advised for those at risk who need to hide a phone for emergency use (domestic abuse)

but I also noted those using hearing aids too, as noise might be hurtful... (@gennepher ? )

much online about how, but for my android, it was.....

* Go to phone settings.
* Use search bar to search for
EMERGENCY ALERT

i found several but only one that matched an EMERGENCY ALERT like todays & it had a slider switch to turn off .

DO remember to simply reverse the method to turn ON for the next use, which might just prevent injury or harm.

lets hope today's not the day Aliens finally decide to invade...
 
Thanks for the tag @jjraak. @the-mental-one I don’t know if you can access these meters as they are uk companies based but I hope you find this useful.

Here’s some info on UK meters, and to be clear I have no commercial connections with any of the companies mentioned.



HOME HEALTH have the Gluco Navii, which is a fairly new model and seems to be getting good reviews.

https://homehealth-uk.com/all-produ...ose-meter-test-strips-choose-mmol-l-or-mg-dl/



Links to the strips for future orders:

https://homehealth-uk.com/all-products/glucose-navii-blood-glucose-test-strips-50-strip-pack/



Then they sell the older SD Code Free, details to be found here!

https://homehealth-uk.com/all-products/codefree-blood-glucose-monitoring-system-mmoll-or-mgdl/





SPIRIT HEALTHCARE have a meter called the Tee2 + which is quite popular:

https://shop.spirit-health.co.uk/co...e2-blood-glucose-meter?variant=19264017268793



The strips are to be found here:

https://shop.spirit-health.co.uk/co...py-of-tee2-test-strips?variant=19264017367097



If there is a choice of units of measurement then ‘mmol/L’ are the standard units in the UK, ‘mg/dl’ in the US, other countries may vary.



Don’t forget to check the box if you have pre diabetes or diabetes so you can buy VAT free. (for all meters and strips)
 

Thanks for the welcome @jjraak
This is what they gave me: https://medaval.ie/docs/specs/Taidoc-TD4285-Specs.pdf

I put in a new battery, the strips are apparently in date.

I used to be 5s and 6s in the morning, I believe perimenopause may be to blame for the new higher level trend throughout my day, and I'm trying to adjust for it, but I'm finding it hard to trust this taidoc monitor since it is so erratic. In fact, with the old monitor I had I wouldn't normally test multiple times but since this has been throwing out results in the 30s fairly frequently I've been doing extra tests when the result seems higher than I would expect and finding the ones that seem to match a few times (like today when two results were around 9) to use as my result, it seems like a sensible way to work with the machine.

+/-15% I can deal with but given readings going between 7 and 34 some days I don't think it's meeting that standard, which it says it does on the manual that came with it, 7 +15% would be 8.05 not over 30


@Rachox Thank you for the links, I will see if I can find those in Malta before trying to import things from the UK, Brexit has made that even more problematic than it used to be.
 
Morning all on a sunny start to London Marathon day here in L.A. @dunelm glad you corrected my history lessons because I always thought the marathon had an entirely different origin . Thanks for that majestic art and enjoy the ramble if it happens. @gennepher thanks for sharing another lighthouse. The lighthouse keeper must be playing every wet, wet, wet song on loop. @Krystyna23040 good attitude to balancing steps and healing. @jjraak sounds like a good run of bg readings in your comfort zone. I'm watching the London Marathon feeling some sadness that I missed my time when I caught chicken pox. Heraclitus covered that. Enjoy your day. Did the Turkish guy bring us purple sprouting broccoli because I'm blowed if I know what else that intro was all about @dunelm
 
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Thanks @jjraak
I have been worried about this because of my cochlear implant..


I am worried about this alert, because it's supposed to be overriding quite a few settings on your phone. The reason why I am worried is because I remember what happened on my iPhone (although I have Pixel phone now), when I was in my previous car some years ago, and the alerts suddenly went from the iPhone directly to going off into my head and because I was totally surprised and startled I crashed into the wall in front of the car parking space. Apple had done an upgrade that morning, changed all the alerts on the phone so that instead of sounding as though they are emitting from the phone itself, that is outside my cochlear processor they were now directed straight into my head and they were tremendously loud and penetrating and I had not a clue what had happened at that moment.

I cannot find any information on how or if these alerts will override my settings on the pixel phone and someone (a government 'well meaning' hearing person) in their wisdom has decided that all deaf people should unexpectedly get piercing siren alerts directly through their cochlear processers into their skulls, in which case there could be carnage on the roads today.

At that time a few years ago, there were many people who were badly affected and upset from those alerts some years ago with Apple when they changed/overode all the settings on your phone (and there was no advance information) and your cochlear processor, so that you got all Apple alerts straight into your skull. And many many people, at that time, said it was dangerous, especially if driving,or operating machinery etc

I have no idea if the settings for my cochlear processor with the pixel (because on/in the pixel phone it is also my remote control to alter all the settings on my cochlear processor) are going to be overridden by the government to give out these alerts.

And by the way, things change on the pixel phone (for my cochlear processor) each time there are updates and I have to reset my remote in the phone, and also reset the alerts system within the phone settings. You are given no warning something has changed, and it can go straight through to my skull and startle me at inappropriate moments.

I still have a bad memory when Apple did that to me. And so I do not know what to do this afternoon. Do I leave my cochlear processor on, my head says hell no you do not want another thing startling you like that, and you not wanting to wear your cochlear processor for days afterwards. And in any case, if there is a next time they do something like this a general alert, the whole thing will be different and there will be different settings on the phone so I do not need to know that this one could go straight through into my skull.

So I have decided to not wear my cochlear processor today, that's no biggie except for I am expecting a parcel from the rest of the order from yesterday, and consequently I have set up a different kind of visual alert with my email to notify me the whereabouts of my parcel.

A friend has just sent me an email alert which she got from her phone company to explain about this alert today, and it gave a lot of information about it, She should just forward it to me. My phone company has sent me nothing and I don't think that's very good at all.

When I stream something directly to my cochlear hearing processor, I have to turn the phone volume all right down to bottom. Otherwise it is an unimaginable intolerable paralysing racket in my head. A hearing person can at least put their hands over their ears. These alerts are streamed through my processor at full volume, and there is no means of turning an alert down independently, in advance to an appropriate level. I have altered/lowered all the settings I can find.


Sorry to be ranting on about this, but I was unable to find anything specific to my circumstances online.



Anyway my Android phone will be in two faraday bags, and I will not be wearing my cochlear sound processor at all today...


And if the world ends, I will be blissfully unaware..
 
Beautiful @jjraak
Enjoy your walk.,.
 
Thank you Ian
 
Hug for the stress over the alarm. I hope your precautions and hopefully information from your friend help you to emerge unscathed.
 
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