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

johnpol said:

here is a picture of my boy Jacko just because, well he's a miss.

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Bubbsie said:

OOh he looks gorgeous john...such a shame he's no longer with you but what a fabulous life he got when you and the family found each other.

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jjraak said:

Post was as a 100% WINNER for me, but i gave Funny for Erics promotion..
( Top man, kinda thing i would have done... )

What a journey you are on.
just SO motivational in your drive and willingness to push yourself beyond your boundaries and comfort Zone..

Fair play..

Long May you continue being a living embodiment of the Wisdom of Crowds
And a real life thorn in their side of the reality that THEY are WRONG on SO many levels
in their Wretched treatment of those of us with Type 2.

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jjraak said:

SASKIA...it's FAR too early for christmas cracker jokes........

How's you, ?

up WAAYY too early as i WANT to sleep.... but my body and mind, just says NO.NO,NO
(why do i hear that in an amy winehouse voice..? )

but am on hols so can go back to bed later if needed..
(that's a big 'YES' ..whispering this, so my body won't catch on .. )

6.1 on the meter of mirth.

Battle has commenced for the space vacated by steph moving out.

the bedroom weights bench now sports madames yoga gear...<drums fingers>
i've already lost the battle of the bathroom shelves, this ones a must win..

Cleary outgunned by bathroom items, that madame seems to pull out of thin air.
may even have LOST space.. due to my paltry collection of shaving items and deodorant (one.).
Versus her untold salvo of lotions, potions, creams..,it's like the scene from the Matrix with all the Mr Smiths appearing only this times it beauty products.....:***:

(Btw, How many tools CAN there be to pluck or pull hairs from a woman's body
all clearly marked by the Marquis de sade, me thinks )

so consider myself lucky to still be IN the bathroom at all...
it's NOT a defeat..ok..it's a tactical withdrawal...depleted NOT defeated..yet.


Of to plan todays strategy to counter madames not unexpected expedition to capture the majority of the bedroom space.
i fear it's just the first salvo in a long protracted campaign.
madame is a sneaky and mean opponent, so i best plan carefully and execute with precision if i'm to avail.

Love to all.
hope the day brings much joy.

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ianpspurs said:

Morning all. Meter showed 6.8 this morning which is highest since days 1 and 2 on July 8 and 9 2015. No idea how it relates to food lately, drugs since op, batteries in meter, atmospheric conditions, illness brewing or anything else. It is 1 reading and may not be repeated so no kneejerk reaction. It is, though, a very sudden and extreme manifestation of a 12-14 month deterioration in my body's relationship with LC (backed up by the data) so something like this may have been brewing. Obviously won't fix this in a day or by abandoning LC. I was concerned about fasting levels in mid to high 5s (maybe rightly) so this raises the stakes somewhat. Not after hugs or advice this is just what using my meter, recording data and reflecting on that is all about, IMHO. Bug brewing is obviously most likely explanation. Clues will come in how I feel and resting pulse (fitbit takes a while to update sleeping rate in the mornings but realtime one is high for me) Sorry if TLDR

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Fndwheelie said:

Morning all I got my Miao Miao yesterday and I’m loving it, a quick glance at my watch and I see my blood sugars. Having the opportunity to calibrate the Libre against finger prick tests is good(ish), seems my Libre has been reading a touch lower than my metre. The tomato app I’m using with Miao Miao has taken this into account. While my Libre gave me an over night hypo, tomato said I was a little bit high above my upper target or 7.5.
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SaskiaKC said:

Is "get your coat" British for "put your hands behind your back"?

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ianpspurs said:

@geefull another great fbg and estimable day. @dunelm that wheel is turning in some mighty fine stats of late but what in tarnation is a cooch? @PenguinMum hug for the bites. Enjoy your last day and the reunion with the gals (?) @HarrisonK your friend will be fine with e.g. the Costco suckling pig (other suckling pigs are available) but should avoid a full on farrowing sow. Hope that helps.

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johnpol said:

the gentlest soul you could ever wish to meet.

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Debandez said:

Dr unwin actually said at the x-pert health conference that the HCPs wont be able to give rubbish advice much longer as the libre is here

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gennepher said:

Fbg 6.3 at 6:30

So, a little up on the 5.5 of yesterday morning.

I did wake up in the night at 3am, was wide awake, so did some online research I had to do, and then went back to sleep at 4am. I only had water with lemon juice to drink. But at 4am before I went back to sleep, I did take a blood sugar reading and it was 5.6 at 4 am.

So that first one of 5.6 might have been my true fbg?

Yesterday morning, that lowest blood glucose reading of 5.6 did worry me because in all the time of taking these readings I have never been in a 'normal' blood sugar range. It worried me a lot because it was scary that I could get to that decent reading just by the way I eat.

So, my question to myself was 'what could I expect from my glucose readings over the period of 24 hours? And how do I keep it within a 'safe' range?'

I wanted and needed a projection trajectory of possible estimated readings for the next so many hours. But all I could find was basic info online which to me was useless. I wanted to know what to expect, and also to go further I wanted to know what to expect from the food I had eaten.

Finally I gave up online, nothing led me to what I wanted. So I went on IOS apps, and several cropped up. I thought I was going to have to try a few, but the first one I chose appeared to have what I wanted.

There are several categories you can enter info in, but I am keeping it very simple so I know I will keep this collection of data up. (I do have an absolute utter aversion to collecting and analysing data - it's something from my past.) For the moment I am only entering data in 2 categories - food which is entered as carbs, and my blood sugar readings.

I already use a simple picture app for collecting data on the food I eat. It suits me because I am very much a picture/visual person. So I take the carb reading from that app (when I got the app, I only got it because the title was I think, Stupid Simple Keto, I am not Keto, but LCHF but it has an easy picture system of adding data, and then I put the carbs from that into this new One Drop app I am using.

I couldn't really see how it could be accurate in its future projections over the next few hours on what my blood sugars could be. But I was willing to try. The app didn't cost anything and I only had one advert crop up in the many times I used it yesterday and in the night, it wasn't a moving picture (if it had been, the app would've been deleted immediately because I hate those unexpected inappropriate to me moving picture ads, but I don't mind deleting a still picture with an X on it.)

I am not sure how to write the next bit precisely statistically, but the app is pretty accurate in its future projections to within plus or minus something. In simple words, for me to explain, the hourly future projections are no more than plus (+) .5 out. They have never been minus (-) .anything yet.

On that confusing note I will leave you because cat is mithering me for breakfast. He has already batted the iPad with his paws....

Have a good day.
Take care
>^..^<

I will come back to edit this post for typos after I have dealt with this insistent cat, because he is very liable to delete this post and has just started demolishing my feather pillows...

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gennepher said:

Awake nearly all night. But decided to stay in bed until gone 4 am.

Just done my fasting blood glucose.
Shock. For me.
5.5
I have never had a reading as low as the 5’s yet. In four years (?) of taking readings.

It appears to be mainly the very low carbs (under 20 carbs) that is doing it. Probably a few other lifestyle things help too.

A friend had a car accident yesterday on the way to our art group. The person in front of her suddenly did a dead stop, as she was turning left but didn’t indicate. So friend’s bonnet was concertina’d. Her’s was a brand new car. The other car was an old car and very little damage on the boot. A couple of dents. Friend took photos. Also it was obvious from friend’s photos one of this person’s back tyres was low.

It happened at turn we all at the art group take in our cars to get to art group. So it could have happened to any one of us.

Friend was okay. Obviously badly shocked. So art group didn’t exactly take place for art. And driving home, I am uncomfortably very aware of the other cars on the road. I just went to sleep a few hours when I got home. Maybe that is part why I couldn’t sleep last night. I don’t have to go out today, so cat Popeye will ‘make’ me catch up on sleep.

I suppose I was thinking, and we all were at art group as well, how things can change in an instant.

There are clear night skies, and sprinkled stars out there. Sun is supposed to be blazing again like yesterday, so I am going to make a coffee now and go and sit on my thatched swing when it is dawn. Actually I might go out now. There is little light pollution here, and I love watching the night sky.

Have a good day.

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