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

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julifriend said:
A rather high 5.9 for me this morning immediately before breakfast, but the real puzzle came a little later. I had my usual granola for breakfast and 150g of fresh pineapple. I thought i'd test after 2 hours to see what impact the pineapple had had and got a 4.2. Somewhat puzzled I tested again a further 30 minutes later and got a 3.6. Most odd as I had thought pineapple was a risky fruit to eat.
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I'm also absolutely fine with fresh pineapple. I imagine the canned version might be trickier, as there is probably less of the central, fibrous part, and probably more ripe. The local pineapple here are divine.

Just as an aside, I'm also fine with fresh papaya and mango.
 
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8.0 this morning. I'm not sure if this is a sign that it is starting to go down generally or a result of snacking on the cheese while making the sandwiches for lunch (they are bad I know but I have not worked out a viable alternative that I can just take out of the cling film and eat at my desk, and they don't seem to be affecting me too badly)
 
A somewhat high 6.2 :( this morning which I put down to being rudely awakened by the alarm. Normally I'm already partially awake when it goes off, but as I was the first up this morning the alarm woke me.
 
I had 2 very different readings on going to bed last night, taken consecutively within less than a minute on 2 different fingers.
4.9 then 5.8. Which to believe?

5.7 this morning (current normal)
 
6.1. - should probably have tested when I was woke up by Mr E at 7, not hours later after I went back to sleep.
 
Bluetit1802 said:
I had 2 very different readings on going to bed last night, taken consecutively within less than a minute on 2 different fingers.
4.9 then 5.8. Which to believe?

5.7 this morning (current normal)
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I think we all still keep forgetting the meter accuracy stats Bluetit - the 4.9 and 5.8 could be exactly the same, within say 10% of 5.3 or so.

Last night I had a dinner I've had several times before with barely a 1.0 rise after 2 hours, the meter showed 2.0 rise this time.

This morning I had 6.8, frankly I didn't believe that, retested twice and got 5.8 and 5.9.
 
sanguine said:
I think we all still keep forgetting the meter accuracy stats Bluetit - the 4.9 and 5.8 could be exactly the same, within say 10% of 5.3 or so.

Last night I had a dinner I've had several times before with barely a 1.0 rise after 2 hours, the meter showed 2.0 rise this time.

This morning I had 6.8, frankly I didn't believe that, retested twice and got 5.8 and 5.9.
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I averaged my 2 significantly different readings. So I am claiming 5.3. I take it you are claiming the 2 similar ones.
 
Bluetit1802 said:
I averaged my 2 significantly different readings. So I am claiming 5.3. I take it you are claiming the 2 similar ones.
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I'm being very fair and averaging all three, getting 6.3 :cool:
 
Again it rose quite high to 8.9 at 11am (no breakfast(, but t least it has been at a low level last night 5.2.

I've been reading a doctors manual/book on endocrinology
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK30/
and I'm thinking that because the metformin has stopped my liver producing as much glucose, now that I'm off them it is getting chance to metabolize the glycogen store and dump the glucose from it. When I tested my ketones last week I was surprised to see that it was very low (non-existent even) though I thought I was on a pretty low carb diet (apart from Saturday night of course!). As I understood it, if your glycogen was low, then liver produces ketone bodies from protein. So if that's not happening, my reasoning goes that there must still be plenty of glycogen in my liver and muscles.

I might just give it to next Monday to see what happens, as I don't like these high peaks and clearly the metf reduces the spikes for me.
 
4.2 for me today. At the higher end of my personal range, but I was awake for an hour or so before rising, so, exactly as I would predict.
 
gfmoore said:
Again it rose quite high to 8.9 at 11am (no breakfast(, but t least it has been at a low level last night 5.2.

I've been reading a doctors manual/book on endocrinology
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK30/
and I'm thinking that because the metformin has stopped my liver producing as much glucose, now that I'm off them it is getting chance to metabolize the glycogen store and dump the glucose from it. When I tested my ketones last week I was surprised to see that it was very low (non-existent even) though I thought I was on a pretty low carb diet (apart from Saturday night of course!). As I understood it, if your glycogen was low, then liver produces ketone bodies from protein. So if that's not happening, my reasoning goes that there must still be plenty of glycogen in my liver and muscles.

I might just give it to next Monday to see what happens, as I don't like these high peaks and clearly the metf reduces the spikes for me.
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Is it fair to assume you had been up for some time, before testing at 11am? Assuming it is, I might urge you to consider how you measure your fasting score. Delaying testing for several hours (?) after rising has the potential to introduce a number of variables. For example, if I have a significant delay after waking, I find my liver comes into play, and raises my bloods to c4.2. In fact, that's exactly what I believe happened this morning. I woke very early, but didn't want to disturb my OH, so lay reading until our normal rising time.

My normal fasting test routine is simple: I wake, get up, put the kettle on, then test. If I am on a weighing day, I would also weigh during this kettle boiling window. That way I have a consistent approach, minimising any potential for liver dump, stress or any of these other factors to come into play. That's my attempt to baseline my readings.

If you discover your scores are rising between an immediate rising test and your late morning test you could try eating something, or having some tea with milk, to give your system something to be going on with.
 
AndBreathe said:
Is it fair to assume you had been up for some time, before testing at 11am? Assuming it is, I might urge you to consider how you measure your fasting score. Delaying testing for several hours (?) after rising has the potential to introduce a number of variables.
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:) I am a manic tester. I test during the night, as soon as I wake and through the day. - it gives me great graphs, hardened fingers and costs a fortune - at least my gp gives me 100 strips a month, but I have to buy loads more.

When I wake the bg is on the way up from about 2-3am in the morning, sometimes even earlier. I don't do breakfast. I did try eating some nuts when I woke to see if it delayed my rising level any more - it didn't.

I am unable to get a constant fasting level at the moment - my bg is always on the way up or down. Crazy. But one day it will settle.
 
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5.00 today. I had a day of 6's yesterday so I am hoping this is the start of lower levels.
 
5.2 when I went to the loo at 4:45

5.4 at 6:45

5.2 now at 7.45 before breakfast at work.

I've started to check to see if DP affects but I don't think I suffer from it. Usually I only take one reading before breakfast but I was intrigued by all the conversations here.


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7.4 this morning, whether that is due to a general drop or the fact I was munching bits of cheese while getting the lunches ready before testing.
 
6.2. I must get into habit of taking it when I wake up not after I've dozed for another hour or two.
 
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