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

[Annb]

A nurse just came to my bedside and tested my blood suger saying it was thirteen point three I suggested we clean my finger and try again the reading was then eight point four exactly the same as my Dexcom one +

Perhaps now, that nurse understands one reason why the skin should be clean before puncturing it.

 

[Annb]

Yes, I totally agree that no advice fits all @dogslife . It is so interesting learning what works for us.

It is interesting to learn what works for each of us, but also so frustrating when an experiment returns a negative result.

 

[Annb]

Hi ellesangel, am wondering if you have heard of resistant starch?
This is a easy method to reduce carbs in rice, pasta and potatoes, I think it works on bread too.( which can be frozen in slices and then toasted) Simply put. Cook in advance your chosen carb laden food and then chill overnight, all day, or longer if freezing and reheat. Please dont ask me for the scientific explanation why this works, but it reduces the digestable amount of carbs.
Hope this helps. Best wishes

Sad to say - this is one of those things that seem to work for some but not for others. I keep trying this - and hoping that it might work this time, but it never does. That's not to say it won't be useful for others, of course.

 

[Annb]

What an over the top reaction from that doctor, totally unprofessional. Very rude as well.

My GP referred me to the homeopathic hospital in Glasgow for migraine treatment. They didn't manage to sort out anything for me, although they had many suggestions about other things that were problematic. Again - that's just me - as we all know, what works for one, doesn't work for another. In the end, I just stopped things that were causing migraines - trial and error. My brother used to get really debilitating migraines, and never found a cause or remedy, but eventually he grew out of them, until recently. Now in his 80's he occasionally gets a mild form of migraine which responds to paracetamol, oddly.

 

[Annb]

7.7 at 05.30 today. I had been up much earlier (03.10 for an international Zoom meeting) and BG then was 7.1. I was in bed by 23.00 to make sure I was up in time for that. Not sure which of the two could be called FBG. The first one, I suspect, because I did have a cup of tea before going back to sleep at about 05.30.

 

[gennepher]

Fbg 6.9

Good evening....

Finally saw my friend D, after her cancelling the last two Wednesdays, unexpectedly and she explained why...

It felt a bit like a comedy of errors, the way she explained it, but it wasn't really funny at all. The first week she cancelled, her neighbour's husband had fallen over and the paramedics had said that she should keep an eye on him, but she thought it was more important to take the cat to the vet and so asked my friend D to sit in with her husband.

The following week my friend D cancelled, again it was because of her neighbour's husband. Apparently, they were all talking outside. And then one of them said, who's that lying on the floor. The neighbours husband had just collapsed without anyone noticing. A passing nurse leapt in, and said he needed resuscitation, but she was seeing to something important and so she got a passing by man who had never done chest compression pumps before, or whatever it is called. And they thought it was hopeless but kept trying. Finally the ambulance arrived and the neighbours husband ended up in hospital, but again the wife did not go because she said the cat had to go to the vet again, and so she asked my friend to go to the hospital with her husband. Anyway, all ended well with the husband because he ended up getting a pacemaker and was sent home the next day.... my friend was rather bemused as she was reciting all this to me...

The weather has been strange, cold and then hot... it has tired me out... I am back home now, finally, but I am so so tired.

It was so hot where I met my friend, but freezing cold when I got back home.

My creative today is a drawing of one of the people where it was very hot. He was a much older person and had problems walking. His feet and cane never left the ground as he was shuffling along.

I am going to doze the evening away
And so I will say night night...

 

[Krystyna23040]

I was very lucky @Krystyna23040
If it had fallen differently at a different angle...
The terrarium was very old.
J's father, a master mariner, used to bring back all kinds of things from abroad for his mother. I ended up with quite a few of them. This terrarium is one of them. The glass is so thick and heavy. It is probably over a hundred years old....

I am so pleased that you are OK @gennepher. You were very lucky that it hadn't fallen differently at a different angle. Actually that is exactly the same with my somersault down the stairs on Friday.

 

[Krystyna23040]

It is interesting to learn what works for each of us, but also so frustrating when an experiment returns a negative result.

Yes, it is so frustrating when an experiment returns a negative result.

 

[Krystyna23040]

28.95
7.25am FBG 5.3
Have been pottering about in the garden for half an hour or so. Looks like rain, so i watered all the pots by the house which don't always get the benefit of it. Rain would be really good for the sprouted grass seed laid down last night.
Doctors appointment yesterday, got some medication, after the herbal capsules recommended by the pharmacist proved ineffective. Also an explanation for why I get these infections - which was NOT - as one person told me - because I don't wash properly. Which left me embarrassed and ashamed and reluctant to see a doctor, thus escalating and prolonging the problem. Today the doctor simply said it happens more often as women get older and especially in hot weather.
Asked for Hab1c test as well, so we shall see where I am now after months of ignoring the issue.
A question about herbal remedies.
Is it neccessary to believe they will work? To trigger the placebo effect?
So far I have found me them 100% useless, yet the all the pharmacists here recommend them.
Has anyone had a better experience ?

That is a very interesting question @SlimLizzy .
After I was run over 20 years ago I was using ibuprofen gel as ibuprofen caused a severe duodenal ulcer. I really relied on the gel to help the pain.

We had gone to the Loire valley on holiday and I forgot to take a new tube of the gel with me so I went to a pharmacy there to get one.
The pharmacist refused point blank to sell me it - saying arnica was much more effective. I was so upset as I relied on the ibuprofen but I had no choice and bought it.

I was rather shocked that it actually worked really well.and I have used it to this day.

AVogel luffa drops work really well to sort out my tree pollen and mould allergies. The allergy meds from the doctor worked really well also but when I begged my doctor for one that didn't completely knock me out he was horrified as I was using the most non-drowsy one available. He advised me that if I continued taking it l would need to stop driving.

So I turned to the luffa herbal drops which were quite slow to start working but once they did they worked really well with no drowsiness. When AVogel ran out of the drops last year I tried an alternative herbal that didn't work at all.

Mr K was very sceptical about herbal remedies and didn't think they worked. He ran out of his own allergy meds l suggested he tried the Luffa. He was shocked that it worked so well and he has used it ever since. What I found strange was that it worked immediately for him. But of course everyone is different.

 

[gennepher]

I am so pleased that you are OK @gennepher. You were very lucky that it hadn't fallen differently at a different angle. Actually that is exactly the same with my somersault down the stairs on Friday.

I think @Krystyna23040 our guardian angels are looking after us, because when I looked at the shape of it, I thought if that pyramid tip part has fallen on my head first....

 

[gennepher]

That is a very interesting question @SlimLizzy .
After I was run over 20 years ago I was using ibuprofen gel as ibuprofen caused a severe duodenal ulcer. I really relied on the gel to help the pain.

We had gone to the Loire valley on holiday and I forgot to take a new tube of the gel with me so I went to a pharmacy there to get one.
The pharmacist refused point blank to sell me it - saying arnica was much more effective. I was so upset as I relied on the ibuprofen but I had no choice and bought it.

I was rather shocked that it actually worked really well.and I have used it to this day.

AVogel luffa drops work really well to sort out my tree pollen and mould allergies. The allergy meds from the doctor worked really well also but when I begged my doctor for one that didn't completely knock me out he was horrified as I was using the most non-drowsy one available. He advised me that if I continued taking it l would need to stop driving.

So I turned to the luffa herbal drops which were quite slow to start working but once they did they worked really well with no drowsiness. When AVogel ran out of the drops last year I tried an alternative herbal that didn't work at all.

Mr K was very sceptical about herbal remedies and didn't think they worked. He ran out of his own allergy meds l suggested he tried the Luffa. He was shocked that it worked so well and he has used it ever since. What I found strange was that it worked immediately for him. But of course everyone is different.

Yes @Krystyna23040 arnica and arnica gel works well for me...

 

[gennepher]

Well I hope that today is a better one for you. Interesting kaleidoscope - looks to me like a microscope view of an hour glass

I hope @dunelm is okay...he has been a bit quiet of late...

 

[dogslife]

Good morning all. My fbs early this morning was 8.0 -the best since I stopped taking Dapagliflozin. Yesterday, however, it was a scary 12.6!. I had felt hungry all day the previous day and had been snacking between meals so my own fault. Yesterday I ate more sensibly with no snacks. The salmon salad I had for lunch filled me up until my air fried chicken with pressure cooked fresh vegetables for my evening meal at 6pm. At 8pm I had a spoonful of peanut butter to satisfy my need for something savoury but that does not appear to have done much damage. So plain chicken salad for lunch today and evening meal -still to be planned. Any suggestions would be welcomed. A dull, windy but warm morning so far. I am missing my group walks and will be glad when my foot has healed so I can get more exercise. It really makes a difference. My best wishes to you all for a safe and pleasant day.

 

[Krystyna23040]

I think @Krystyna23040 our guardian angels are looking after us, because when I looked at the shape of it, I thought if that pyramid tip part has fallen on my head first....

Oh gosh - that would have been disastrous. @gennepher. Our guardian angels were definitely looking after us.

 

[gennepher]

Fbg 6.9

Weather is windy and rainy...

Creative is playing digitally with one of my paintings...

Resting today...

Take care

 

[Annb]

Today was legs day, so Neil took me to the Clinic for my appointment and then went and did the shopping, as usual. My legs were extremely painful and he had to bring the car round to the front gate which is just as far away as the side gate, but there's no step to climb (only one on the side gate, but sometimes even that is too much). Anyhow, I made it there and back but had a further appointment this afternoon so we had to go out again. We've been back almost an hour now and I'm completely shattered.

The consultant (for my liver problems) said that my liver has actually healed a bit - the lesions have reduced in size. Great news, which I put down to the sort of lchf diet. However, that same diet may be affecting my kidneys because it seems I now have CKD. Certainly the diuretics I've been on for years haven't helped, but the high animal protein content of the diet won't have helped either. He asked how I had got on with the drug he asked my GP to prescribe for me in February 2023. It was one of those weight loss drugs - Ozempic or Mountjaro, or something. I had to tell him that they hadn't done anything of the sort. He was surprised but it seems that here it's not the GP who prescribes it in the first instance, it's the dietetics department at the hospital. The GP seems to have referred me to them at some time over the last 2 years (I actually had a letter from them a month or so ago telling me that I had been referred and they would give me an appointment sometime). I did receive an appointment about a month ago, but I already had 3 appointments that day, so had to decline. Still waiting for another appointment. I don't know who caused the delay - the GP's surgery or the dietetics department.

I'm not sure about this new drug though. Neil tells me that there have been some very positive reports about it, but I know to my cost that there is always a price to pay in terms of side effects. My SIL tried one of them but couldn't carry on because it made her feel so ill. She did lose weight but that was because she was too nauseous to eat anything. She gave up after the first month, and then all that she had lost just piled back on again.

 

[gennepher]

I just cannot get in on here. I have been trying for an hour and it keeps saying oops. I'm just wasting my time....

 

[Krystyna23040]

I just cannot get in on here. I have been trying for an hour and it keeps saying oops. I'm just wasting my time....

I have just had the same @gennepher. I restarted my Kindle fire and it let me in.

 

[Annb]

It seems to drop out and then get going again minute by minute, at the moment. Well half hour by half hour. Trouble at t' mill.

 

[SlimLizzy]

29.05
7.45am FBG 5.9was feeling really awful yesterday, tired and dizzy. Went to bed when i got home. MrSlim produced dinner, but I couldn't eat it. Not feeling great this morning but need to drive to a nearby town to get Hba1c test. Stupidly forgot about fasting and had breakfast yesterday. So two trips instead of one.
I do use arnica cream, and a wound healing cream that contains honey. But the medications just don't seem to do anything. Although I have only bought a couple.
Edited to add: didn't post this when written and went back to bed been there nearly all day, definitely not fit to drive .
Friday tomorrow, market day and am expecting visitors, will need to be up and getting on with stuff in the morning.
MrSlim is very pleased with progress today, our new helping hand has done sterling work and will return to continue tomorrow.