An architect friend once said to me: If you wake up worrying about tell yourself there is nothing you can do about it in the middle of the night so visualise putting the thoughts and worries in a big cardboard box, tie it up with string (or a big coloured ribbon in my case lol!) and deal with it in later in the morning. It works most of the time.The issue for me is similar, in that I don’t have an issue dropping off to sleep, it’s waking up and having a restless night because of other factors. In my case the latter including an affectionate feline jumping on me, work stress & worrying about - well you name it, I worry it to death at night. Not that it solves anything!
I’ve discovered that the app Calm has some sleep stories which send me to sleep almost instantly, and if I play one of those when I wake up, it sometimes settles me down again. Bed time stories for grown ups! I have a good idea of my sleep patterns now as I have an Oura smart ring which gives data on how much quality sleep I’m actually getting. I’ve identified that my bedtime is very regular, and when I don’t get enough sleep for one or two nights, I seem to catch up subsequently. That’s what happened last night & I feel much better today. And my FBG is lower too.
I think since I had a week or so of readings in the 5’s, I now regard FBGs in the 6’s as failures, whereas you’re right, it’s not too bad at all. Particularly when the dawn phenomenon is factored in.
Hello mates,
At a couple of the other forums I've frequented there was a thread like this one where we all sorta checked in each day, with our first cup of coffee or tea, and reported our fasting or waking blood glucose level and some short comment about whether we're ok with it or if not - why not?...
It worked well as a sort of 'first thread to check' each morning and post to.
I'll start.
This morning was a 5.6mmol for me. That's about normal for me
What about you?
Hello and welcome to this thread. It's nice to have another new face on board.Diagnosed with type 2 about a month ago, my first fasting reading this morning is 7.6. It’s been like that for the past week.
Winner for the number and a hug for not being well .5.4 this morning. Not bad considering I've been sick for two days and unable to walk.
Hello and welcome aboard. We're pleased you could join us.6.3 this morning.. usually in the low 7s most mornings, breakfast was bowl of cereal.. special k mixed with special k nuts and fruits mix and 2 slices of wholemeal seeded toast with peanut butter, usuall leaves me with a high of around 8 so not too drastic
6.9 - Yeah, too unstable. Plan B this week.
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