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Ate my rice and didn't rise much above 120. Had a few chicken breast too before I went to sleep. I woke up at 157, and it looks like I had peaked at 160 last night. 20 minutes after being awake I was down to the mid 130s.

I checked my stats for yesterday and they were 100% in range with an average of 126mg/dL. By far my best day yet, even without any rapid-active insulin.

I wish I had more data though. I'm sure the working is the huge contributor here, but I'm wondering if the Metformin and Glipizide are larger contributors than I'm currently giving them credit for. We kind of figured out that with the half life it would have been roughly 6 days before it was steady in my system, but maybe it took a little longer than that with my body? The big thing is the lowering of the spike that happens while I sleep. It's still there, and the trend continues every day, but we're really getting that under control without doctor intervention. If it persists by my next visit with Dr. Endo, I hope he has some ideas about trying to flatline that a bit more. If my kidney's weren't dumping sugar into my bloodstream while sleeping and starting off my days high, my 126mg/dL average would have probably been more like 110mg/dL.



Right now I have to get cleaned up to run some errands. I'm running out of some crucial parishable foods here and I've got a scrip to pick up. I also didn't pick up enough circular mud rings for my overhead porcelain lights. Originally, I was going to put 3 of them up in the attic and the box at the end wouldn't have required one, but because of that smaller box I didn't want to add another wire and a few pigtails for the light (because it's in a HOT attic during the summer) and the wires already passing through there are the ones powering the entire shed and attic. It worked out fine anyhow though because even though I'm only using two of those 9w LED bulbs, the space is so small that it's plenty of light. I even installed the porcelain fixtures with the plug outlets in them, so if there's ever a scenario where I need to power something up there I can do it without having to install a dedicated outlet box anywhere.

But then I realized that I forgot about the overhead light I wanted to put in the shed when buying my stuff yesterday, and because I didn't buy that extra plaster ring I have no way to install it.


I think I'll be holding off on putting in the ceiling vent/fans for now though, even though I have the light up there to work on it now. Today is still in the 70's, but we've got at least a week in the 80's and low 90's starting tomorrow and I don't feel like cooking myself up there. There's plenty of other things that need doing until it cools off again.


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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Way cool! IMHO I wouldn't mess with what's working. At this point there were two significant changes: the addition of two oral meds, and a significant increase in your activity. At SOME point this summer there will inevitably be a few days in a row where you'll have to throttle back on your work, or you'll be devoted to less physical work like your computer data project, and this "natural experiment" might tell you how much effect comes from physical activity and how much comes from oral meds.

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Yeah. I was thinking the same thing. Or just from depression. I'm sure diabetes isn't going to cure that and I'll slip back into a funk eventually.

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I'd be curious to see what Dr Endo thinks of your numbers. He might consider them a success. There was a large study that showed that diabetics who TIGHTLY controlled their blood sugar actually did worse overall than diabetics who let their blood sugar go up a little. And compared to the insulin treated diabetics that I knew, you're doing way, way better than them!

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Yeah. So far so good. Just 18 units of the long-active every morning and learning to eat around my blood sugar levels and how much I can have during sessions.

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Just a couple of notes: It's your liver, not your kidneys, that dump sugar into your bloodstream, raising blood sugar. Your kidneys actually sometimes filter it out into your urine, lowering blood sugar. Livers are football -sized organs with plenty of storage space. Kidneys OTOH are each the size of a large fist and full of filtration apparatus.

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Yeah. I know that. I don't know why I sometimes say the wrong thing. My poor kidneys went through hell when I was above 500mg/dL and my body was eating itself. Ketones were through the roof too.

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I've been told LED lights don't like to work in the heat. Apparently they need to toss off heat or their electronics fail.

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I think it depends. I have a ton of them in my garage that gets very hot, and only one of them have failed out of 9 in a year's time. I'm going to chalk that up to a bum unit for now until I start seeing other failures. I get these things so cheap I'm not really worried about it anyhow. Even after giving pretty much everybody I know a box of 12 LED lighbulbs for Christmas, I've still got about 150 bulbs left.






Numbers have been great again today, although I haven't been able to eat as much as the last few days. I'll probably be around 30-40 carbs short of my intake yesterday by the time the night's over. Oh well... more protien tonight for me.


I got the first coat of paint on all that trim and finished my electric work in the shed. I also primed and put two coats of paint on the new conduit and the spots on the studs that weren't painted before because there was conduit and junction boxes on them. After that I got my shed cleaned out and vacuumed up.

Calling it an "early" night.

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Out for my walk. Things to do.

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Out for my walk. Things to do.

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Me too. Time to walk puppy-wuppy and assess how her ear is feeling.

Cool to moderate weather predicted for the next 10 days, with highs ranging from 68 to 75. I should be able to make good progress on the yardwork since there are very few appointments and/or contractors over that time.

My next step is to weed under the oak (where I just watered), level out the mound that it's on, deep water it again and then do the cardboard and mulch truck, which- they say- will keep weeds and grasses from re-growing. I also have to remove the rocks from around the mound, pull out the landscaper's cloth, get some rocks from sis' house and rebuild/ build new that "retaining wall".

I don't know what comes after that, but there's plenty to do!

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
My numbers started to go up while I was cooking and it was only then that I remembered that I ate a bit while helping my aunt with some tech stuff on the phone because I was down in the 80s. Oops.

Just did a 15 minute intense workout to even that out and they're already falling again.



I think tomorrow might be A/C day. It's hot enough that I sweat a little working out. Don't like sweating when I'm not doing actual work.



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Out in a bit. Things to do.

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Out in a bit. Things to do.

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Yeah, me too. Nothing specific scheifor the day. Gotta get my bum off the chair and walk the dog.

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Sounds to me like you're perfectly on track, SIX.

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Got a surprise last-minute invite to dinner at my friend's house last night and we watched John Wick 2. (I don't know if I mentioned a while back he wanted to watch John Wick 4 but I said I couldn't because I'd never seen the first 3). We saw the first one maybe a week ago. We're loving these movies. After the first one he said "you'll wait to watch them here, right?", and I said hell yeah. He's got the awesome TV/Audio setup for it.

His wife is so sweet. She put a separate bowl of the noodles out for me to take what I wanted and told me that there were 58 grams of carbs in it.

I had about half of them and called it 30. Told her I might be back for more, but I never went down again on my numbers while I was over there, so when my buddy was snacking on junk food during the movie I just had a handful of pistacios and cashews before I got home.

I was still hungry when I got home, but I was too lazy to cook any chicken breasts. I had about 1/3rd of a container of peanuts open and ate those instead.



And... Here we are this morning. I woke up at right around 9AM exactly and my number was 124. What??? Yeah. When I ate the peanuts after I'd gotten home I had gotten back down to around 110. I figured I'd spike all the way up to 180 again like I did yesterday morning, but there was practically a straight line from midnight to 9AM with just a very gentile rise.

The only things that were different were that I took my Metformin about 90 minutes after we ate instead of taking them with food and I had about 30 grams of noodles at around 8PM instead of 34 grams of brown rice between 7PM and 10PM.

Boy. I hope I can replicate that number tomorrow. I've never woken up to such low numbers. And I'm not even hungry now too.



I'm going to paint the pull down staircase panel and the trim today, at least 2 coats. Probably doesn't need 3. I think I'm also going to use my copper wire wheels to clean up the track and pieces of this unit I can mount on the wall to hold yardwork tools and shovels that I took down from the porch-side of the shed when I fixed it all up last year. I'd like to get that back up on the other side of the porch now that it will be finished so I don't have a ton of stuff just on the floor taking up space in the corner of my garage and making it a hassle to get to one of my ladders. I've got plenty of spray paint to get it nice and cleaned up before it goes back in.

I'm going to have to get all of that river rock and the pavers here at some point too, but I think I'm going to wait until it gets cooler for that. Doing the work necessary for them in the heat is one thing, but I forgot about getting all of it back to my place. At least it's not 450 bags of them this time.



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The "John Wick" movies are great SIX. I've seen all three and I am going to my library today to see about getting 4 out.

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Huh. It's a mystery, isn't it? You didn't at chicken breasts either, right? Well, I'm sure you'll figure it out. Since your numbers have been good for quite a while, you're not in a rush, and there's plenty of time to fine-tune your routine.

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The "John Wick" movies are great SIX. I've seen all three and I am going to my library today to see about getting 4 out.

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Hopefully it's there for you to rent.

I can't wait to watch the 3rd one at my friend's house. They were real confident they were making a 3rd one with the way that left the 2nd one end. Real "Sarah Connor Chronicles" vibes there.



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Well, my morning mah jong was no luck. Took at least an hour to make 1,000 points.

But on the flipside my thyroid is still stable and the doc checked my ears after I took off my hearing aides. There is wax in them and he gave me a couple of tips to hopeful keep that problem down as I said I had to clean one hearing aide on Wednesday. Just olive oil in my ears with no cotton to keep it in and if that doesn't help after 2 weeks, he said to make an appointment with a nurse for an ear flushing. I hope his tips work because it's no fun when the nurse has to pull on my ears to do the job.

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Well, my morning mah jong was no luck. Took at least an hour to make 1,000 points.

But on the flipside my thyroid is still stable and the doc checked my ears after I took off my hearing aides. There is wax in them and he gave me a couple of tips to hopeful keep that problem down as I said I had to clean one hearing aide on Wednesday. Just olive oil in my ears with no cotton to keep it in and if that doesn't help after 2 weeks, he said to make an appointment with a nurse for an ear flushing. I hope his tips work because it's no fun when the nurse has to pull on my ears to do the job.

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Glad your thyroid is good Brenda.

Olive Oil is pretty useful. I didn't know how to get the adhesive from my sensor off of my belly when I had to switch it and it turns out rubbing olive oil does the trick. I thought it was funny you mentioned it today because just 20 minutes ago I used it to take off glue from under the label on plastic jars of peanuts that I'm going to wash and use to store nails and screws in the garage.

I wish I'd known it was capable of that years ago. I once tried using mineral spirits to get gunk off of plastic containers before and it melted them and changed their shape.



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I wonder if you or I will see it first? I've still got to watch the 3rd one with my friend before we watch Chapter 4.



I got the painted bracket system installed in my shed today and got a lot more done on the cleaning and re-org project in the garage. Almost filled up another trash bin.


Numbers are still good for the most part. Now that the older and worse readings have finally aged off the standard 14 days that it shows when you first log in, my average glucose is down to 126mg/dL, with only 1% high and 1% low and nothing Very high or Very low.

My target is 156mg/dL average, with 70% or more of the time in range, 20% or less high, 5% or less Very high, 4% or less low and 1% or less Very low.

I'm killin' it.

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I wonder if you or I will see it first? I've still got to watch the 3rd one with my friend before we watch Chapter 4.



I got the painted bracket system installed in my shed today and got a lot more done on the cleaning and re-org project in the garage. Almost filled up another trash bin.


Numbers are still good for the most part. Now that the older and worse readings have finally aged off the standard 14 days that it shows when you first log in, my average glucose is down to 126mg/dL, with only 1% high and 1% low and nothing Very high or Very low.

My target is 156mg/dL average, with 70% or more of the time in range, 20% or less high, 5% or less Very high, 4% or less low and 1% or less Very low.

I'm killin' it.

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Oh wow, Yes, you are!

I think you're a perfectionist, SIX, so if your numbers go a bit more out of range, for whatever reason, don't let it throw you. Just remember: in diabetes, sometimes "good enough" is better.

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That's about word for word what my dad told me on the phone the other day when I was getting pissed that the morning nap ruined a 5 or 6 day perfect streak.

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BTW the infamous "they" theorize that achieving perfect numbers if often done in the general population with more meds and with their associated side effects, which may account for the observation that most diabetics do better with worse-than-normal blood sugar. But that's not you! bc you're controlling your blood sugar with less Rx than prescribed. Good on you!

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Yeah... Actually, I'm a little annoyed that my Nutritionist or her team member didn't write me back at all last week. The last time I heard from them was when I told them I'd gotten in touch with the Dr. and he put me back on oral meds. Given my auto-immune results, she did not agree with that course of action and said I should be taking rapid-active before every meal I eat. That was about 2 weeks ago. I sent her and one of her team members the two week results (which were higher but still good at around 138mg/dL average) on Monday morning and didn't hear back from them all week.

So almost an entire pen of rapid-active has pretty much gone to waste since it's only good for around 30 days after taking it out of refrigeration. Unfortunately, I will be going to visit my brother soonish and I don't want to risk being without it for 3-4 days, so I'll be taking another pen out of the fridge that will probably go to waste. Maybe I can see if my old man has a small cooler for the trips.

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Your cleanup continues to inspire me. Despite the fact that I get derailed by family demands and priorities quite often I'm also making progress, albeit slowly.

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Just a lazy Sunday around me. Might get some music on later.


On the wild fires front. Things are now getting under control in Nova Scotia as a massive amount of rain moved into the area over the end of last week. Sorely needed rain as a fire was heading towards Halifax again but that is now stopped. But one fire did take out a bunch of homes.

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Just a lazy Sunday around me. Might get some music on later.


On the wild fires front. Things are now getting under control in Nova Scotia as a massive amount of rain moved into the area over the end of last week. Sorely needed rain as a fire was heading towards Halifax again but that is now stopped. But one fire did take out a bunch of homes.

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Oh wow. I didn't realize that a maritime province was under drought, I thought it was just on the plains. Glad for the rain, then!

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