Exhaustion

It has been a busy-busy few months.
I think.  It has all been a bit of a blur.

Actually, for a while I was very out-of-sorts.As i recently mentioned I had an appointment with my diabetic nurse, and it transpires that I had been having a lot of hypos – dangerously low blood sugar levels (BGLs).  This explained the total exhaustion  that I felt throughout the summer and – to a certain degree, even now.  It was getting fairly ridiculous when I was forcing myself to remain active but really wated to go to bed at 7.30pm! 

 I am still going to bed early but I’m also giving myself permission to do so… !

Anyway, the Nurse has prescribed a monitor (called FreeStyle LibreLink 2). It is absolutely amazing.  The monitor (a white disc) is attached to the body (currently on my upper arm) and it sends all the BGL data to my mobile phone! It is SO clever.  Apparently, some of the readings might be ‘out’ if compared with the normal finger-prick tests because it is something to do with testing capillary blood and some other type (Royal blue blood maybe?*!).  Either which way, I’m permanently astounded at how helpful this kit is.  I do wish that it had been prescribed before now but, of course, there is a certain amount of criteria and boxes to be ticked by the NHS.  However, my marvellous Nurse over-rode some of this and I am now on a repeat prescription to receive the monitor – each one lasts fifteen days.  I do think that it can only be beneficial to how things are controlled and already my insulin (mmol units) injection has been reduced and the BGLs have levelled out.

Fingers crossed that this continues and my energy returns; it gets boring otherwise.