This is my third post advising you not to continue with a glucose test at home.
If you can talk to your GP, or any care provider member of the NHS, you just don't understand why this is so dangerous!
You don't have to do it, and you can get what you want over time, with all the usual testing.
Why don't you test your insulin levels?
If you have diabetes, it is probably caused by insulin resistance, and if the diagnosis is because of that the chances you have too much circulating insulin, which effects your insulin response and again your insulin resistance.
At all my eOGTTs, my bloods were taken many times as well as finger prick testing.
These included, c-peptide, GAD, insulin levels and a few other things, like platelets, red cells and white cells.
These full blood panel tests were sent to a private laboratory, who are specifically for rare conditions.
As I said before, the goal for you should be controlled dietary intake, the less carbs the better.
And eat to your glucometer. What you are doing is OTT, and unnecessary. And you are doing yourself self harm.
Please speak to doctor!
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I am eating 1000 cals a day, as I have said before - my "wimp's" version of ND. I am losing just under 1lb per week. This is not drastic. Three quarters of the nation is probably on a slimming diet this month. They usually are in January.
As to the 75 g glucose used for the fortnightly OGT test, the average woman eats around 2000 cals a day, around 50% of them from carbs. That's 1000 carbs calories or 250 g carbs per day. That's an average of about 83 grams of carbs per MEAL ie 3 times a day, not once a fortnight. Yet they are not dropping down dead all around us. And plenty of people regularly drink full sugar pop. One serving of some of these will have 75 carb cals in them. I would never do that, but it is nevertheless commonplace. PS and if the OGT is so dangerous how come the medics of every country, not just the NHS, do it as standard?