Recent Content by Sax

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    BG Meter Recommendations

    I originally was told to wipe which was why I started. I've since heard suggestions not to for this reason, but I've not seen a difference on testing, perhaps because I don't wipe immediately prior to stabbing and give it time to dry. Its something that makes me more comfortable mentally with...
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    BG Meter Recommendations

    Its on a card that came with your meter if you got it from Home Health. "navii10" is a 25% discount if you buy 10 boxes of strips, "navii5" for 20% off 5 boxes. You made a weird remark about sterilising something. The lancet (stabby thing) doesn't really need sterilised, the lancet needles it...
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    BG Meter Recommendations

    I got a Gluco Navii recently: took a little more blood than the kinetic meter I’d used previously but decent and vastly cheaper on the strips, using the discount code on a bulk order.
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    Carb Tolerance?

    I'd second the above about using a Libre, I was surprised on recent Libre testing just how much going for a walk can disguise the impact of a higher than safe carb content in a meal.
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    Excercise and glucose levels

    I did some testing last month, high carb meal with no movement after, high carb meal with walk, high carb meal with run, to see if I should change some of my lifestyle routines. Doing anything after high carbs helps a lot in dropping the peak fast. But there was a return spike of a smaller...
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    Newley Diagnosed

    Metformin is the default medication for all type 2 diabetics and helps a little by reducing insulin resistance, but isn't a substitute to diet changes.
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    87

    You want to do metering initially before and then 2 hours after meals to see how they affect you, and then compare that to what you ate. If the after number is less than 2mmol/l above the start, and below 8.5 mmol/l overall, you're good to eat that again and don't need to keep re-testing for...
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    87

    Just to be explicit and clear; the level of blood sugar this indicates means you have a form of diabetes. Its not the sort of test where a high number one day might just be a fluke. Its not good news, but its something that can be managed and prevented from progressing by measures that are in...
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    Which route to take?

    Yes this is the church of low carb and many follow the cult of keto, but its a broad church and what works for you as a long term sustainable diet is more important. Low carb is anything below 150g, 130g or 100g depending who you ask, so you could step down in stages along that and see where it...
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    Help re milk please

    I did a post on this a few weeks ago, the Arla brand has less sugar than normal milk, but this doesn't apply to most lactose free milks - they have the same sugar and in a worse form as normal milk.
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    Help re milk please

    Well, two tests so far on the 200 ml of Arla lactose free milk, and.... I didn't see any spike at all either time. I'm unclear whether that suggests its better for other diabetics, or if I'm an outlier on milk response.
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    Newbie - Hypo confused

    You could get any result from almost no further reduction to being right back to non-diabetic range (<42) in that time frame depending on how well you manage your carb consumption vs meter results. Metformin- what will you bother you more in September, (a) having a low, successful test result...
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    How low can you go (at night, without insulin/ related meds) - poll

    I don't believe the minimums I'm talking about are compression related as they occur too consistently in timing and for too long. I do see occasional, random dips and immediate recovery separate to that.
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    How low can you go (at night, without insulin/ related meds) - poll

    I feel my HbA1C numbers maybe flatter me a little, as when using a CGM I see that I get low values at night. I'm regularly seeing 3.5 -4 range at night for periods of under 1 hour. Does this then make daytime values look better in comparison to others than they are, or is this just my paranoia...
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    Newbie - Hypo confused

    Its maybe worth saying a hypo is below 3.8 - 4 mmol/l, an HbA1C of 71 means your average daily is 11 mmol/l, down from around 14 mmol/l previously.