Yo-yo numbers

[valann]

Last week we had a few days away to celebrate our 47th wedding anniversary and since coming home my BG levels are all over the place and I have no idea why.

Whilst away I stuck to my Low Carb diet completely except on the day itself when I had a single bite of chocolate cake with double cream (far too sweet for me now), the rest of the time it was low carb, mainly chicken with salad for main meal and scrambled egg with bacon and small portion mushrooms for breakfast. All my tests came up within the 5-6mmol range both fasting and before meals, then nothing higher that 7.1 2 hours after meals (that was the day of the mouthful of cake), so always below the 2 full point range.

Since getting back home 5 days ago even my fasting numbers have been in the 6.5-8 range and after eating 9.5-10.2mml and I have no idea why

Today it was 5.7 so am hoping it's starting to settle down, fingers crossed but really am feeling very confused about these yo-yo numbers when I am sticking to low carb.

I do understand that these numbers are not unusually high for a lot of people and mine before joining the forums were often 12-14 range and I'm not that high now but still feel it's a concern.

Any ideas will be very welcome please

 

[lovinglife]

You may be sickening for something or have a low level infection

 

[catinahat]

It could be the excitement or stress of your trip, or possibly you picked up a bug on your travels as lovinglife suggested.
If only our bodies were as consistent and predicable as machines, life would be so much simpler.
Trying to second guess a living body driven by hormones and emotions is difficult, sometimes we just have to shrug our shoulders, accept it and carry on.

 

[valann]

You may be sickening for something or have a low level infection

Yes I was kind of thinking that but seem to be ok, I suppose time will tell

 

[valann]

It could be the excitement or stress of your trip, or possibly you picked up a bug on your travels as lovinglife suggested.
If only our bodies were as consistent and predicable as machines, life would be so much simpler.
Trying to second guess a living body driven by hormones and emotions is difficult, sometimes we just have to shrug our shoulders, accept it and carry on.

If only! Yes it would be so much easier if we could predict or if our bodies were consistent something mine has never been.

This has just taken me by surprise as things were ok whilst away so wasn't expecting it to shoot up once home, so yes I'll just have to accept it and hope it settles soon.

Thanks so much for the replies to both you and lovinglife x