Of course my first night with the monitor was completely untypical – my blood sugars dropped instead of rising. I suspected this would happen once I was wired up! Went down to low 2’s at 2.30 and got up and treated it. Was 8.5 when I left for the gym. Recently I’ve mainly been somewhere around 14 and 16. So hopefully I’ll capture these sorts of inexplicable high BMs overnight tonight so we have some data around what’s going on.

Sleeping with the monitor wasn’t tooooo bad…. I put it in the pocket of my pyjamas, and clipped it on. I had a pretty restless sleep with that and the low and then had to get up at 5.25 to get to RPM before work. So not a lot of sleep, but I’m used to that.

Showering with the monitor was tricky but ok – I put a plastic bag over it then secured it with a twist-tie (so Kiwi – bit of number 8 wire and she’ll be right!). The cord’s long enough to put it on the soap rack at the gym and as long as you don’t do any crazy movements and stay pretty close to that side it’s all good. Must be much easier than having a leg or an arm in a cast (although I might be showing my age now…. You used to have to keep those things dry in my day).