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Type 2's: What was your fasting blood glucose in a morning?

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6.4 this morning.

Diagnosed 11/09/13 hba1c 76
16/12/13 hba1c 46
 
6.6 at 6:30 this morning. I'm starting to think that not getting enough sleep hours (need to get blackout lining for the bedroom curtains, waking at 5 or so in the summer) and ongoing low level work/life stress are significant factors for me, and maybe nothing to do with DP.
 
5.4 this morning for me.
 
I keep waking up at ridiculous oclock too with the light and birds twittering. Mr E was recently telling me that sleeping in too light a bedroom has been linked to obesity so may be worth hanging those curtains blackout curtains .
 
sanguine said:
6.6 at 6:30 this morning. I'm starting to think that not getting enough sleep hours (need to get blackout lining for the bedroom curtains, waking at 5 or so in the summer) and ongoing low level work/life stress are significant factors for me, and maybe nothing to do with DP.
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I have just taken an average of my overnight rise and fall from when I started testing my going to bed levels on 7th May. The average is 0.0. So totally flat. No DP for me then. I am now putting it down to my going to bed level, which is probably higher than it should be because we eat late. If we were to eat earlier it would cause too much disruption to our routine, and the thought of exercise in the evenings fills me with horror!
 
3.8 again for me this morning.

It's a public holiday here today, so it's a BBQ on the beach at lunchtime, and lots of water frolicking to follow. Life could be so much worse. :D
 
Diagnosed Type 2 last Thursday. Had pre-arranged boys night out (I say boys, we're all in our 40s and old enough to know better) on Saturday so decided not to start doing anything about it until Sunday. Saturday's consumption: bowl of cereal for breakfast, omelette for lunch, very delicious pie with mash and gravy mid-afternoon, special biriani about midnight. 8-10 pints of bitter (it all got a bit hazy after a while...) and half a bottle of champagne. Sunday morning fasting blood sugar 12.8; had my favourite cereal for breakfast (Harvest Morn Strawberry Crunch from Aldi with skimmed milk), 2 hours later 22.4. Won't be having that for breakfast ever again, boo. Went out on my bike and did 27 miles in 100 minutes, down to 5.5. Then had 2 corn cakes with low fat cottage cheese and sunflower seeds, plus a bowl of lettuce, tomato and cucumber (no dressing). 2 hours later 7.5. Evening meal a poached chicken breast (skinless, boneless) with stir fried veg (carrot, broccoli, spring onion, beansprouts, peppers) and a sugar free strawberry jelly. 2 hours after this it was 7.7. However I am a terrible snacker, especially as I like to smoke a little weed (no tobacco) in the evening, so after my evening meal I then had a small plate of roasted cauliflower and roasted peppers, a good handful of cashew and hazel nuts (roasted, unsalted) and another sugar-free jelly. Bedtime 9.4. This morning fasting 9.7, 2 hours post breakfast (which this morning was some low fat yogurt with a tablespoon of oats and half a teaspoon of freeze dried strawberries) 12.8. It's going to be an interesting few weeks/months while I work out what works and what must be avoided (don't worry, I've already worked out that a day of heavy drinking with pie and mash is no longer on the menu!). Good luck to everyone else!
 
AndBreathe said:
3.8 again for me this morning.

It's a public holiday here today, so it's a BBQ on the beach at lunchtime, and lots of water frolicking to follow. Life could be so much worse. :D
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SO impressed! How on earth can I get down to 3s?
 
paulins said:
SO impressed! How on earth can I get down to 3s?
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Paulins - I Believe there are a number of other forumites (who don't post on this thread) who also return scores in the 3s pretty regularly. This thread helps keep me on the straight and narrow.

For me, the scores just came down as I went from mildly padded to less padded, then slim to skinny. My BP improved at the same time. I'm often 4.0 or high 3s after my evening meal, so I just plain old run pretty low most of the time. My OH describes it a flat-lining. Ahem. But, moving on, as my last HbA1c was 34 (5.3%), I must be higher at some stages, but I haven't found them yet. I'd love to have a couple of weeks on a CGM to understand it all, but is doubt that's going to happen, with no clinical need.

I eat an excellent diet, and have been reintroducing a few carbs of late. I'm not on a scale anything like @Andrew Colvin, but adding further variety all the same. What I am adding isn't doing too much to my blood scores, except for a large baked potato, which took me to the higher 5s. I know that's not too shabby, but by comparison to my usual trends, it felt uncomfortable. Subsequent testing with a smaller spud returned better scores. Phew.

Keep doing what you're doing. It sounds like it's really working for you. I believe, like our personal fat tolerance levels, Prof Taylor refers to, we all have our personal blood baseline, where we function optimally. I think I may have stumbled upon mine, for now. I would be happy (ish!) for my bloods to rise the tiniest bit, in return for widening my dietary choices, socially, from time to time. Of course, in reality it might freak me out, being the wuuusssss I am.

This thing is all about balance and moderation, which strike me as two things we diabetics may have lacked in our pre-diagnosis worlds, so it's definitely the long game.
 
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AndBreathe said:
Paulins - I Believe there are a numb of other forumites (who don't post on this thread) who also return scores in the 3s pretty regularly. This thread helps keep me on the straight and narrow.

For me, the scores just came down as I went from mildly padded to less padded, then slim to skinny. My BP improved at the same time. I'm often 4.0 or high 3s after my evening meal, so I just plain old run pretty low most of the time. My OH describes it a flat-lining. Ahem. But, moving on, as my last HbA1c was 34 (5.3%), I must be higher at some stages, but I haven't found them yet. I'd love to have a couple of weeks on a CGM to understand it all, but is doubt that's going to happen, with no clinical need.

I eat an excellent diet, and have been reintroducing a few carbs of late. I'm not on a scale anything like @Andrew Colvin, but adding further variety all the same. What I am adding isn't doing too much to my blood scores, except for a large baked potato, which took me to the higher 5s. I know that's not too shabby, but by comparison to my usual trends, it felt uncomfortable. Subsequent testing with a smaller spud returned better scores. Phew.

Keep doing what you're doing. It sounds like it's really working for you. I believe, like our personal fat tolerance levels, Prof Taylor refers to, we all have our personal blood baseline, where we function optimally. I think I may have stumbled upon mine, for now. I would be happy (ish!) for my bloods to rise the tiniest bit, in return for widening my dietary choices, socially, from time to time. Of course, in reality it might freak me out, being the wuuusssss I am.

This thing is all about balance and moderation, which strike me as two things we diabetics may have lacked in our pre-diagnosis worlds, so it's definitely the long game.
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Thanks AndBreathe! I do think you are right, and I am still above the ideal weight for my height, so levels will hopefully continue to drop as I continue to lose fat. I have moved from obese to overweight, so still two/three stones to go before I am comfortably in the normal weight for my height. Very much look forward to moving from overweight, to slim to skinny! What an incentive! Balance and moderation in all things. What is a GCM?
 
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Thanks AndBreathe! I do think you are right, and I am still above the ideal weight for my height, so levels will hopefully continue to drop as I continue to lose fat. I have moved from obese to overweight, so still two/three stones to go before I am comfortably in the normal weight for my height. Very much look forward to moving from overweight, to slim to skinny! What an incentive! Balance and moderation in all things. What is a GCM?
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CGM = Continuous Glucose Monitor. Sorry, we're all a bit gung-ho with acronyms on here. :confused:
 
davidvan said:
Diagnosed Type 2 last Thursday. Had pre-arranged boys night out (I say boys, we're all in our 40s and old enough to know better) on Saturday so decided not to start doing anything about it until Sunday. Saturday's consumption: bowl of cereal for breakfast, omelette for lunch, very delicious pie with mash and gravy mid-afternoon, special biriani about midnight. 8-10 pints of bitter (it all got a bit hazy after a while...) and half a bottle of champagne. Sunday morning fasting blood sugar 12.8; had my favourite cereal for breakfast (Harvest Morn Strawberry Crunch from Aldi with skimmed milk), 2 hours later 22.4. Won't be having that for breakfast ever again, boo. Went out on my bike and did 27 miles in 100 minutes, down to 5.5. Then had 2 corn cakes with low fat cottage cheese and sunflower seeds, plus a bowl of lettuce, tomato and cucumber (no dressing). 2 hours later 7.5. Evening meal a poached chicken breast (skinless, boneless) with stir fried veg (carrot, broccoli, spring onion, beansprouts, peppers) and a sugar free strawberry jelly. 2 hours after this it was 7.7. However I am a terrible snacker, especially as I like to smoke a little weed (no tobacco) in the evening, so after my evening meal I then had a small plate of roasted cauliflower and roasted peppers, a good handful of cashew and hazel nuts (roasted, unsalted) and another sugar-free jelly. Bedtime 9.4. This morning fasting 9.7, 2 hours post breakfast (which this morning was some low fat yogurt with a tablespoon of oats and half a teaspoon of freeze dried strawberries) 12.8. It's going to be an interesting few weeks/months while I work out what works and what must be avoided (don't worry, I've already worked out that a day of heavy drinking with pie and mash is no longer on the menu!). Good luck to everyone else!
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Hi David, welcome.

Sounds like a real 'last supper' you had on Thursday! But well done for grabbing the bull by the horns since - you're in the right place for continuing advice and encouragement. What was your diagnosis HbA1c?
 
Man, I'm upto 8.9 by 11 am this morning. Since Saturday night when I had a carb fest - chinese and strong lager my bg has been all over the show, upto 10.2 at one point. It's a real struggle to get these readings down. I came off the mets as well (over a week ago) and i think my liver is reacting.

I won't be doing that again in a hurry. :(
 
woke up today with the 7 figure and bit later a higher result, and i know the food i ate before i went to bed was not anything artificial or processed same this morning and the levels still up so i am working on it still and i hope all who are succeeding with there positive sugar levels keeping them low to norm is great news and keep up the good work and those still working on there's to get it to the norm good luck and best thing to do keep a food diary what you eat and drink, see what is making the sugars go up, eliminate one thing from the food you ate to make it got up, to see which one is causing it once you find out what food or drink causing it you can take that food or drink out your meal,plus always put time date plus sugar result in the diary with the food and drink you ate so you can keep the record easy to review and manage it does work i know salad cream makes my sugar go up so i have rid that out my food intake,no more salad cream so i and doing the same with everything else,hope this works for you to.
 
gfmoore said:
Man, I'm upto 8.9 by 11 am this morning. Since Saturday night when I had a carb fest - chinese and strong lager my bg has been all over the show, upto 10.2 at one point. It's a real struggle to get these readings down. I came off the mets as well (over a week ago) and i think my liver is reacting.

I won't be doing that again in a hurry. :(
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Chinese is the worst food to eat even Indian foods they contain a lot of sugar and salt and that in it self will cause a high sugar reading plus naan bread poppadoms are also another to put the sugars up, just be careful how you eat from take always restaurants not all are health conscious many overdose the food with high levels of the bad things your body is at risk for, alcohol should be either quit drink it or have one rare occasions, if your liver is going through a condition you do not want to add to it, so I hope you get your sugars in the norm soon and hope you have learnt a valid lesson just how much man made foods are out there harming peoples bodies, not a safe option to eat MacDonald's is another that adds sugar and salts and fats in food that sends a diabetic sugar up, they are not worth having when you want to live and be healthy. big hugs xx
 
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