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What was your fasting blood glucose? (with some chat)

OrsonKartt said:
Contour 6.6

A fairly standard number for me these days.

A few years back I could get 5’s but despite a deeper undersunderstanding of this disease and lower carb levels here I am
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Same here! Exactly so! Anyway 6.7 this morning and I am completely accepting of FBG staying in the 6s. @RosemaryJackson there might be other things at play maybe, sleep, pain, worry, the thing about all of us here we care and we are trying hard. @mojo37 crossing everything the tide will turn for you. Take care everyone.
 
Morning all. Think I forgot to post yesterday. Never mind, there was nothing outstanding happening......
This morning I tested at BG 7.3 mmol which is a bit better than recent 8's.
Had a good sleep and I think that was the difference between previous days and today.
Keep at it Mojo. You've had lower before and will have them again for sure.
Had a dentist visit yesterday and he couldn't save one of my front lower teeth.
It was bloody awful, very painful it was, as he never put enough painkiller injection in, had to top that up an additional 5 times as he wrestled the tooth loose, with me yelping in agony..... each time he put more numbing stuff in , we waited 5 minutes for it to take effect. Was in the dentist chair for ages. At times after I had to stop because of pain, the pain started shooting across the whole row of front teeth. Horrible throbbing sensation.
Well eventually the tooth was out. Dentist said it had an unusually long root on it and that's why it didn't want to come out.
As the injections wore off I had more pain for several hours and I took nefopam, paracetamol, and Ibuprofen to reduce the pain, to little effect. As the day wore on the pain reduced and I crashed to sleep after taking lots of tablets. Awoke today and it's not so bad now.... Just the tooth next to the extraction hurts and is a bit loose. I'm sure he loosened that tooth, as he worked away on the one he extracted.
It will settle back down soon I hope.
It was the worst experience by far, that I've had at a dentist and it's certainly scared me off for future extractions with that dentist...... Unbelievable it was.... Terrible ordeal and I've never known pain like it........ I do have another tooth with a cavity, but no way am I going through that again. At least not for a long time.
 
An astonishing 4.7 FBG this morning. Wet, cold and horrible again outdoors, the feline took one look and did an about turn, straight back to the top of the stove. I felt the same but I had to go to work.

@Ashybang ouch that sounds awful! You'd have thought the dentist would have realised how long the root was from the X-rays. When the extraction is expected to be difficult or painful, my dentist usually recommends a general anaesthetic, he is very cautious about treatments which is fine by me. Coincidentally, I was also at the dentist yesterday having a new crown fitted, no injections at all, which surprised me but the tooth itself is dead, it was an abscess ages ago which was root filled, and it had got a bit infectious recently, so excavations and re-crowning needed. Hope your tooth settles down soon, nothing worse than the constant pain of toothache.
 
DEBBIESCOTT said:
Libre 5.1
Contour 4.8
Latest blood tests still showing an infection got to be repeated in 4 weeks, roll on the summer & warm weather
Take care everyone & hugs to all in need
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So hope you feel better soon xx you really have had a bad run of it. How you keep upbeat is beyond me. I crumble at the first hurdle at the moment!
 
6.8 this morning, really need to up my anti and post more. Have really been struggling recently and my exercise routine has slipped a bit! Still low carb but need more enthusiasm in general. I am currently looking at my treadmill that has grown clothes, who knew eh?!
 
Ashybang said:
Morning all. Think I forgot to post yesterday. Never mind, there was nothing outstanding happening......
This morning I tested at BG 7.3 mmol which is a bit better than recent 8's.
Had a good sleep and I think that was the difference between previous days and today.
Keep at it Mojo. You've had lower before and will have them again for sure.
Had a dentist visit yesterday and he couldn't save one of my front lower teeth.
It was bloody awful, very painful it was, as he never put enough painkiller injection in, had to top that up an additional 5 times as he wrestled the tooth loose, with me yelping in agony..... each time he put more numbing stuff in , we waited 5 minutes for it to take effect. Was in the dentist chair for ages. At times after I had to stop because of pain, the pain started shooting across the whole row of front teeth. Horrible throbbing sensation.
Well eventually the tooth was out. Dentist said it had an unusually long root on it and that's why it didn't want to come out.
As the injections wore off I had more pain for several hours and I took nefopam, paracetamol, and Ibuprofen to reduce the pain, to little effect. As the day wore on the pain reduced and I crashed to sleep after taking lots of tablets. Awoke today and it's not so bad now.... Just the tooth next to the extraction hurts and is a bit loose. I'm sure he loosened that tooth, as he worked away on the one he extracted.
It will settle back down soon I hope.
It was the worst experience by far, that I've had at a dentist and it's certainly scared me off for future extractions with that dentist...... Unbelievable it was.... Terrible ordeal and I've never known pain like it........ I do have another tooth with a cavity, but no way am I going through that again. At least not for a long time.
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Ashybang said:
Morning all. Think I forgot to post yesterday. Never mind, there was nothing outstanding happening......
This morning I tested at BG 7.3 mmol which is a bit better than recent 8's.
Had a good sleep and I think that was the difference between previous days and today.
Keep at it Mojo. You've had lower before and will have them again for sure.
Had a dentist visit yesterday and he couldn't save one of my front lower teeth.
It was bloody awful, very painful it was, as he never put enough painkiller injection in, had to top that up an additional 5 times as he wrestled the tooth loose, with me yelping in agony..... each time he put more numbing stuff in , we waited 5 minutes for it to take effect. Was in the dentist chair for ages. At times after I had to stop because of pain, the pain started shooting across the whole row of front teeth. Horrible throbbing sensation.
Well eventually the tooth was out. Dentist said it had an unusually long root on it and that's why it didn't want to come out.
As the injections wore off I had more pain for several hours and I took nefopam, paracetamol, and Ibuprofen to reduce the pain, to little effect. As the day wore on the pain reduced and I crashed to sleep after taking lots of tablets. Awoke today and it's not so bad now.... Just the tooth next to the extraction hurts and is a bit loose. I'm sure he loosened that tooth, as he worked away on the one he extracted.
It will settle back down soon I hope.
It was the worst experience by far, that I've had at a dentist and it's certainly scared me off for future extractions with that dentist...... Unbelievable it was.... Terrible ordeal and I've never known pain like it........ I do have another tooth with a cavity, but no way am I going through that again. At least not for a long time.
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Ashybang said:
I have quite a few missing now but as a kid had a lot pulled due to overcrowding. I swear that process weakened the other ones, the ones next to the pulled ones have now gone. I don't trust dentists
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Lainie71 said:
So hope you feel better soon xx you really have had a bad run of it. How you keep upbeat is beyond me. I crumble at the first hurdle at the moment!
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Thank you
Cough is back with a vengeance now, still going to the gym this morning (only weights), really fed up with it, my reasoning is if I’m well enough to go to work I’m well enough to exercise
Take care
 
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