Very informative. What was your level when first diagnosed @MarkMundayIf you have just been diagnosed, you are probably still making a fair amount of insulin and this will continue for some time. All you can be sure of is that you don't have enough beta cells left to make the insulin required to keep blood glucose at normal levels.
Bear in mind that when blood glucose is 'normal' there is about a teaspoon of glucose dissolved into about 5 litres of blood. So very small changes cause big moves in blood glucose readings. Also bear in mind that glucose does not only come from meals. The liver makes it too and there are complex metabolic processes that take glucose out of the bloodstream
Similar for me, not sure my initial records even still exist anywhere - I've got one more place I can check (the hospital where I was diagnosed), and I have a form to fill in, but they apparently normally destroy anything after 25 years if you're not registered with them anymore, and well I was last registered with them about 40 years ago ... But yeah apparently the doctor could smell it on me when my parents took me in according to my mum.Not the foggiest, it was so long ago that I’m not even sure there was a fasting blood sugar taken back then. Even if it was, they’d probably have had to wait a fair while for it to come back from the lab. However, I may try and find out.
I’m assuming we are all T1 because I posted this on the T1 Diabetes forum.
It’s interesting how some of us had double the blood sugar of what others had. I guess this is relative to how much of your beta cells were already destroyed when first diagnosed, I suppose?
Some people will feel quite unwell with glucose levels in the high teens and will need to seek medical assistance.
I went to the doctor with uncontrolled weight loss and frequent urination and although I was above 30mmol I 'felt' OK.
The GP and the hospital staff asked me several times if I was OK. Got the feeling they didn't believe me when I replied that I was fine.
We are all different, and diabetes does not always follow the text books.
I’m assuming we are all T1 because I posted this on the T1 Diabetes forum.
It’s interesting how some of us had double the blood sugar of what others had. I guess this is relative to how much of your beta cells were already destroyed when first diagnosed, I suppose?
I remember doing a finger prick test before going to the Drs having recognised the signs and it said 'hi'...gulp. Did a few after that and they were between 18 and 30. Was whizzed off to hospital (with ketones) and they did an hb1ac which was 16% in old money which is around 150 I think?. x
Some people will feel quite unwell with glucose levels in the high teens and will need to seek medical assistance.
I went to the doctor with uncontrolled weight loss and frequent urination and although I was above 30mmol I 'felt' OK.
The GP and the hospital staff asked me several times if I was OK. Got the feeling they didn't believe me when I replied that I was fine.
We are all different, and diabetes does not always follow the text books.