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<blockquote data-quote="Yorksman" data-source="post: 594588" data-attributes="member: 55568"><p>Readings vary for many reasons, meter inaccuracy, quality of blood sample, how evenly the glucose is mixed in the blood and your sampling site.</p><p></p><p>Normally my early morning readings are in the 4s or low 5s. Yesterday and today however, they were 5.8 on my middle finger. I knew this was odd because I han't eaten anything carby and had been doing a lot of cycling. I had expected lower. Retesting on my index finger the readings were lower, 4.8 and on my annular finger, 4.6 yesterday and 4.2 today.</p><p></p><p>The reason for the fluctuation is that I probably got low, around 4.0 and my body released extra glucose into my system. It takes roughly an hour for this to mix evenly and with one finger reading 4.2 and another reading 5.8, my guess is that this release only just happened. The way your blood circulates around the body is not at all obvious. It doesn't jump from one finger to the other but appears to go the long way around. When this has happened in the past, I have avoided breakfast and retested after 45 mins or so and sure enough, things have averaged out. Now I just get stuck into my porridge.</p><p></p><p>If you ever get surprising results, test again using a different sample site.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yorksman, post: 594588, member: 55568"] Readings vary for many reasons, meter inaccuracy, quality of blood sample, how evenly the glucose is mixed in the blood and your sampling site. Normally my early morning readings are in the 4s or low 5s. Yesterday and today however, they were 5.8 on my middle finger. I knew this was odd because I han't eaten anything carby and had been doing a lot of cycling. I had expected lower. Retesting on my index finger the readings were lower, 4.8 and on my annular finger, 4.6 yesterday and 4.2 today. The reason for the fluctuation is that I probably got low, around 4.0 and my body released extra glucose into my system. It takes roughly an hour for this to mix evenly and with one finger reading 4.2 and another reading 5.8, my guess is that this release only just happened. The way your blood circulates around the body is not at all obvious. It doesn't jump from one finger to the other but appears to go the long way around. When this has happened in the past, I have avoided breakfast and retested after 45 mins or so and sure enough, things have averaged out. Now I just get stuck into my porridge. If you ever get surprising results, test again using a different sample site. [/QUOTE]
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