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I tested my bloods 2 hours after my lunch it was 6.8 is that ok

Before each meal just tested before lunch it was 5.4

Breakfast 2 weetabix with milk (lunch leftovers casserole no potatoes chicken and veg) dinner pork cooked in slow cooker 2 small roast vegetables) bedtime 1 slice of nimble bread toasted butter

Yes I’m on a low carb diet and walk 3 miles or longer a day

my HbA1c last June was 65 mol this June it’s 78 I wasn’t told to monitor my blood sugar last year just take 2 sakkarto twice a day this year went back for checkup it was 78 I was for a week on gliclazide and a meter and strips and monitor 4 times a day but when I went back a week later the blood...

I’m sorry if I’m asking a silly question but I’m confused when the nurse took my bloods it came back 78mmo1mol my reading this morning was 6.0 on my meter is that ok thanks

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Thank you I’m finding it very helpful on the forums I’m 61 my husband passed away 18 months ago so I let my diabetes get out of hand until a month ago when I had a checkup and found my blood sugars were sky high I’m working really hard to get my levels down I walk every evening with my two...

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Mine was 6.8 this morning the same nearly every morning but usually go down to 5.8 during the day