• Guest, the forum is undergoing some upgrades and so the usual themes will be unavailable for a few days. In the meantime, you can use the forum like normal. We'd love to know what you think about the forum! Take the 2025 Survey »

What was your fasting blood glucose? (with some chat)

grantg said:
something you can possibly add to the equation is time of day :P eg apparently i handle carbs better as day progresses ... so confused by that but hey ho :)
Click to expand...
Thanks for the advice but I have found that my BS always rises steadily from 3 or 4 m/mol up to about 9.5 from around 3am to 12 noon. There is nothing I can do to influence this whether it is eating breakfast or lunch early or late, fasting, exercise or a combination of all of them. Over the last year it has just clearly become my body's natural trend or daily BS rhythm over which I don't seem to have any influence but on the plus side it does come down quite rapidly after midday.
I eat a dinner which is my main carb source between 1700 and 1900 which is not practical to vary this too much owing to family and social life and the rise in BS is most definitely influenced by the carb loading or otherwise. Sometimes with meat and salads it stays almost flat below about 6.5 but obviously with higher carb meals it can go as high as 9 but then come down fairly quickly. Overnight it starts the daily rise and fall all over. Groundhog day yet again.
I am grateful that through this forum I have been able to get the figures as low as possible and over the year reduced my HbA1c to a decent level as well as sometimes prevent the dreaded spikes. It is still a very experimental journey and one day my Eureka moment may be to somehow control the daily, predictable rise as well as reduce reliance on meds. Sadly it seems that day is still in "a galaxy far, far away" but grateful that in my situation it could be a whole lot worse.
A 6.5 starting the day this morning.
grantg said:
something you can possibly add to the equation is time of day :P eg apparently i handle carbs better as day progresses ... so confused by that but hey ho :)
Click to expand...
 
libre 4.9 breakfast 8g carbs (i think im gonna have to up that....) around 30 mins after breakfast currently at 9.8 straight up arrow. only reason im thinking i may have to up is sugars keep on going lowish and ketones appear to be produced by body burning fat.

now im confused. I've been told to be careful of high blood sugars especially if elevated ketones and ketones in general.

dsn probably going to be sick of me calling again especially as spoke to her just yesterday. calling as basing off yesterdays advice.

Whilst walking around shopping mall. cgm telling me sugars 3.7 with directly downwards arrow managed fingerprick after sat down couple of mins later which was 4.2 ok so thats normal as have had the cold for a wee bit decided to check blood ketones 0.7 off the same fingerprick killed 2 birds with one stone :)

really wish the dsn gave advice for ketones other than call back if elevated. I was only a couple of weeks ago told not to check ketones unless blood sugars remain high for a few hours. that advice changed yesterday. guessing its going to be more tests hoping sooner than the c-peptide etc test 7th july and fingers crossed that they will be able to do all tests they want in one go rather than having to go through multiple blood draws. really can't stand needles in and out veins. still waiting almost 5 months now for psychiatry to try help with the irrational fear.
 
NewdestinyX said:
Hello mates,
At a couple of the other forums I've frequented there was a thread like this one where we all sorta checked in each day, with our first cup of coffee or tea, and reported our fasting or waking blood glucose level and some short comment about whether we're ok with it or if not - why not?...

It worked well as a sort of 'first thread to check' each morning and post to.

I'll start.

This morning was a 5.6mmol for me. That's about normal for me

What about you?
Click to expand...
8mmol. Not happy at all.
 
Back
Top