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Hello Everyone,
I'm new to this forum and relatively new to diabetes and need some help understanding blood glucose monitors and their results.
In November 2013 I went for a health check and was told I was pre-diabetic. My FBS was 6.0 mmol/L and PPBS 8.39. I was told to eat better and get more exercise and check my blood sugar levels again in 3-6 months.
After 3 months of eating very healthily and exercising, I lost around 6kgs but was a normal weight before, I got my numbers down to FBS 5.8 and PPBS 6.5 and had a HbA1C test done with a result of 5.29%. I was really happy with these results and thought that continued healthy living might reduce the numbers further so I bought a OneTouch Select monitor to monitor my blood levels occasionally between hospital tests.
So far, my occasional at home testing has been positive and my readings have lowered slightly, although I know at home tests do have a level of error, and are all under 6 for FBS and under 7 for PPBS. My problem is that yesterday I decided to do a whole day of testing where I measured FBS and then PPBS after each meal, everything was fine until my after dinner reading. I had a particularly carb light meal and got a reading of 8.1. I thought that this must be a mistake and took another reading within seconds and got a result of 7.7. As this was higher than all my recent results including the ones taken earlier in the day I checked again and got 7.1 and then again and got 8.5. I didn't know why I got these results and left it there and thought I would check again the next day.
Today, I decided to check my lunch PPBS value and got 7.0 I then tested again within a minute and got 6.3. This confused me even further.
My question is, what could cause varying results like this? I know that at home tests aren't 100% accurate but I haven't had PPBS results over 7.0 for long time and am really worried about what this means. Could blood from different fingers cause differing results? Could my monitor of broken or my test strips contaminated?
Any thoughts, experience or advice on this issue is greatly appreciated and apologies for the long post.
I'm new to this forum and relatively new to diabetes and need some help understanding blood glucose monitors and their results.
In November 2013 I went for a health check and was told I was pre-diabetic. My FBS was 6.0 mmol/L and PPBS 8.39. I was told to eat better and get more exercise and check my blood sugar levels again in 3-6 months.
After 3 months of eating very healthily and exercising, I lost around 6kgs but was a normal weight before, I got my numbers down to FBS 5.8 and PPBS 6.5 and had a HbA1C test done with a result of 5.29%. I was really happy with these results and thought that continued healthy living might reduce the numbers further so I bought a OneTouch Select monitor to monitor my blood levels occasionally between hospital tests.
So far, my occasional at home testing has been positive and my readings have lowered slightly, although I know at home tests do have a level of error, and are all under 6 for FBS and under 7 for PPBS. My problem is that yesterday I decided to do a whole day of testing where I measured FBS and then PPBS after each meal, everything was fine until my after dinner reading. I had a particularly carb light meal and got a reading of 8.1. I thought that this must be a mistake and took another reading within seconds and got a result of 7.7. As this was higher than all my recent results including the ones taken earlier in the day I checked again and got 7.1 and then again and got 8.5. I didn't know why I got these results and left it there and thought I would check again the next day.
Today, I decided to check my lunch PPBS value and got 7.0 I then tested again within a minute and got 6.3. This confused me even further.
My question is, what could cause varying results like this? I know that at home tests aren't 100% accurate but I haven't had PPBS results over 7.0 for long time and am really worried about what this means. Could blood from different fingers cause differing results? Could my monitor of broken or my test strips contaminated?
Any thoughts, experience or advice on this issue is greatly appreciated and apologies for the long post.