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<blockquote data-quote="JaneWilliams20" data-source="post: 645140" data-attributes="member: 131565"><p>I'm "only just" diabetic, diagnosed a few months back, and I now test. It's useful if only so that I know what "normal" is for me, and will eventually know for sure what spikes me and what doesn't. The DESMOND course taught me a lot, and one of the important bits was about insulin resistance: the BS can be fine for a normal person, but it isn't getting from the blood to where I need it. Now I know that if my BS is lower than about 6.4 when I wake up, I'm going to be feeling wobbly due to low BS. Below 6, I'll have problems taking the test because I'm shaking too much. That's nothing like someone who isn't insulin-resistant: they'd be down in the 3s to feel like that.</p><p>The "only just" diabetes means that as well as insulin not moving sugar from blood to where it'll do me some good, my production of insulin is erratic. So if I spike, then it takes some time for the pancreas to notice, and then it panics and overdoes things, dropping BS to the point where I'm wobbly again.</p><p>This is just me, and the explanation is oversimplified, but you see why measuring to find out what your body does can help a lot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JaneWilliams20, post: 645140, member: 131565"] I'm "only just" diabetic, diagnosed a few months back, and I now test. It's useful if only so that I know what "normal" is for me, and will eventually know for sure what spikes me and what doesn't. The DESMOND course taught me a lot, and one of the important bits was about insulin resistance: the BS can be fine for a normal person, but it isn't getting from the blood to where I need it. Now I know that if my BS is lower than about 6.4 when I wake up, I'm going to be feeling wobbly due to low BS. Below 6, I'll have problems taking the test because I'm shaking too much. That's nothing like someone who isn't insulin-resistant: they'd be down in the 3s to feel like that. The "only just" diabetes means that as well as insulin not moving sugar from blood to where it'll do me some good, my production of insulin is erratic. So if I spike, then it takes some time for the pancreas to notice, and then it panics and overdoes things, dropping BS to the point where I'm wobbly again. This is just me, and the explanation is oversimplified, but you see why measuring to find out what your body does can help a lot. [/QUOTE]
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