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

[Granny_grump_]

Hiya K, I haven’t got lymes I lived in New York for 3 years and a number of people around me caught it ..nasty, nasty thing to have

Hi Goacher55 sorry I've got hold of wrong end of stick again,I should look at posts properly! K

 

[dogslife]

I drank half a glass of lucozade and within 15 minutes was up in the 5’s

The hypo feeling scares me it really does

Jelly babies work for me! Glad you are OK today.

 

[NewTD2]

Just received a call from my diabetic nurse saying that my HbAlC has gone down from 85% to 46% in 2.5 months. She said it’s gone to the “pre-diabetic range” according to the HBA1C chart.

What does it mean? Good, bad?

I also received a letter today from the recent eye screening which says I have background retinopathy and my DN said it’s the result of having such a high bg level and dropped so quickly.

I really don’t understand what’s going on!

Andrew

 

[Bertyboy]

6.8 im not impressed hope this is a one off. hope everyones getting over their colds.

Could you explain, for a newbie, why that is bad? I thought anything between 4-7 was considered OK?

Anyway, I thought I was doing OK recently, until I just now felt unusually hungry, so did a random test and found that 6 units of Novorapid doesn't cover a small bowl of broccoli soup!

 

[Troubled1]

6.0 today. Much better than yesterday’s carb induced 7.4. Still, it will get better.

 

[paulus1]

Could you explain, for a newbie, why that is bad? I thought anything between 4-7 was considered OK?

Anyway, I thought I was doing OK recently, until I just now felt unusually hungry, so did a random test and found that 6 units of Novorapid doesn't cover a small bowl of broccoli soup!

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because ive been holding to the low 5s for 6 weeks its because im off my insulin. my aim is 5-6

 

[Prem51]

Just received a call from my diabetic nurse saying that my HbAlC has gone down from 85% to 46% in 2.5 months. She said it’s gone to the “pre-diabetic range” according to the HBA1C chart.

What does it mean? Good, bad?

I also received a letter today from the recent eye screening which says I have background retinopathy and my DN said it’s the result of having such a high bg level and dropped so quickly.

I really don’t understand what’s going on!

Andrew

The HbA1c reduction from 85 to 46 is good.
48 and above is diabetic. 42-47 is pre-diabetic, and below 42 is non-diabetic.
You have done well to lower your HbA1c so much in less than 3 months. Keep on doing what you are doing and you should get into the non-diabetic range by your next HbA1c test.
The background retinopathy would be due to your former high HbA1c, it should improve as you lower your blood sugars.

 

[Goacher55]

Just received a call from my diabetic nurse saying that my HbAlC has gone down from 85% to 46% in 2.5 months. She said it’s gone to the “pre-diabetic range” according to the HBA1C chart.

What does it mean? Good, bad?

I also received a letter today from the recent eye screening which says I have background retinopathy and my DN said it’s the result of having such a high bg level and dropped so quickly.

I really don’t understand what’s going on!

Andrew

Wow well done ! Serious low carb ? That’s a brilliant reduction the good news about background retinopathy it is possible to normalise it. Mine normalised by reducing my Hba1c

 

[NewTD2]

Wow well done ! Serious low carb ? That’s a brilliant reduction the good news about background retinopathy it is possible to normalise it. Mine normalised by reducing my Hba1c

Thank you so much.

My DN said today that my background retinopathy was due to the high glucose levels coming down so quickly!

I still need to be very careful.

 

[NewTD2]

The HbA1c reduction from 85 to 46 is good.
48 and above is diabetic. 42-47 is pre-diabetic, and below 42 is non-diabetic.
You have done well to lower your HbA1c so much in less than 3 months. Keep on doing what you are doing and you should get into the non-diabetic range by your next HbA1c test.
The background retinopathy would be due to your former high HbA1c, it should improve as you lower your blood sugars.

Thank you so much!!!

 

[Bertyboy]

because ive been holding to the low 5s for 6 weeks its because im off my insulin. my aim is 5-6

Interesting. What gave you the confidence to come off the insulin? Are you effectively avoiding all carbs?
This is something I'd ultimately like to try because I feel that with diet and insulin, it has been quite easy to get the numbers down, and ideally it should be possible to now keep them there as long as I can avoid any carbs.
Did you do it by slowly reducing the insulin?

 

[Gabrielle_Tai]

4.9 @ 8.30 am .

 

[karen8967]

7.6 have a great day all

 

[Glenmac]

Good morning 6.1 have a good day everyone.

 

[paula121s]

Just received a call from my diabetic nurse saying that my HbAlC has gone down from 85% to 46% in 2.5 months. She said it’s gone to the “pre-diabetic range” according to the HBA1C chart.

What does it mean? Good, bad?

I also received a letter today from the recent eye screening which says I have background retinopathy and my DN said it’s the result of having such a high bg level and dropped so quickly.

I really don’t understand what’s going on!

Andrew

That's amazing, well done.

 

[paula121s]

Morning all, forgot yesterday to post! So here goes 7.5 yesterday. Today....10.9!!! That's dreadful! Had some celebratory real chips last night, first potatoes in months. For any rugby fans, I was celebrating getting tickets in the ballot for the 6 nations England v Wales. If your disabled you can't buy tickets unless you can access ordinary seats. I've applied for tickets every year and this is the first time I've got them. So I'm off to Twickenham in February with my daffodil head!

 

[Mbaker]

3.8 @ 07.33. Happy as went to see Star wars and was armed with a light sabre...actually a bag of nuts which got seriously dented.

 

[Granny_grump_]

Good morning everyone BG this morning was a great 5.2
Busy again today vets with dogs, shopping centre then helping sister with a huge toy move then finally to next town to pick up the last few things for Christmas hopefully.
Have a good day one and all! K

 

[dogslife]

Morning all. Up to 7.3 today at 7.30am. Awake in pain since 4pm but no other reason I can think of. Not long to wait for Christmas now. Have a good time one and all.

 

[ziggy_w]

Good morning all. Today blood sugars were 5.6.