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

Annb · 2025-08-08T07:00:03+0100

10.5 sitting on the edge of my bed at 03.20. By the time I got through to the kitchen it was 9.7. One cup of coffee and insulin later - 12.5. On my 2nd cup of coffee now and we'll see how it goes.

SJ1812 · 2025-08-08T07:17:20+0100

3.7............yes...3.7 I have absolutely no idea why it's so low, but I'll keep an eye on it.

dunelm · 2025-08-08T08:05:58+0100

karen8967 said:
Hi everyone im back
bg this morning was 5.0

Hi @karen8967, so lovely to see your post. Great FBG score.

dunelm · 2025-08-08T08:07:40+0100

debs248 said:
12.7, retested other hand 10.7

Apart from a swig of cherry coke to help tablets go down (some brands of Metformin resemble miniature dishwasher tablets) I ate pretty well yesterday so didn't trust the first reading.

Unfortunately a combination of blunt lancet, scarred fingertips and clumsy aim of test strip towards blood drop meant I had to resort to both little fingers. It's true, they really do hurt more than the others

I have discovered a pimple on my chin which is such a rare occurrence these days I'm wondering if my week of extra high BGs may be hormonal.

Does anyone else find their lancets only last about a week? I keep hearing of people who only change theirs every year or even less often!

Blimey, I only use a lancet once.

dunelm · 2025-08-08T08:27:08+0100

gennepher said:
Fbg 6.5
Encaustic painting...
Still tidying, sorting, and throwing out...
Taking a long time...

Night night
Sweet dreams

View attachment 73465

What a splendid piece of art. Very effective.

dunelm · 2025-08-08T08:27:39+0100

gennepher said:
I like this tree very much @dunelm

Thank you @gennepher

dunelm · 2025-08-08T08:37:54+0100

Good morning everyone on another splendid start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north.
5.2 this a.m.

A full on day yesterday which included The Girl In The Bubble receiving her first swimming certificate and of course, a cloth badge and two exhausted grandparents.

Swimming baths this morning so I expect that the now ‘expert’ swimmer will be holding court even though the other three have been able to swim for several years - but they will be encouraging.

Art bit - a new ink - just a splodge to see the chlorophyl colour of it.

Hope your day is Friday. “Be satisfied with even the smallest step forward and regard the outcome as a small thing.”(Marcus Aurelius, Meditations.

Best make some koffy.

alf_Josiah · 2025-08-08T10:16:24+0100

Happy Friday Morening ladies and gentlemen.
Instructions are being issued and I am running scared.
I must go now. Looks are coming my way.

My blood sugars are beginning to settle down in Australia! I think.

karen8967 · 2025-08-08T10:29:04+0100

dunelm said:
Hi @karen8967, so lovely to see your post. Great FBG score.

Thanks dunelm x

Krystyna23040 · 2025-08-08T11:49:35+0100

5.4 this morning.

Am not allowed in the office this morning. We only have 3 rooms with carpets in the whole house, the 2 guest bedrooms and the office plus the landing and stairs. Mr K has decided it is carpet cleaning morning so I am relaxing and reading with a coffee in the conservatory.

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