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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chook" data-source="post: 1485259" data-attributes="member: 24561">Don't get hung up on individual numbers, what you are looking for is a downward trend in your test results.It took me a couple of weeks of low carbing to get down from above 30 to around 17 and then months to get from 17 down to the 6s and now even longer to regularly get 4s.The flare up of osteoarthritis might well be causing raised BGs - it certainly does with me.  I have it in my neck, knees, one hip and lower spine and when any bit of it - especially my neck - has a bad day then so does my BGs.  I remember that for quite a while I was convinced that Ibuprofen lowered BG because every time I took it for the arthritis my BG went down - now, of course, I realised it was reducing the arthritis inflammation that lowered my BG.</blockquote>

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