It sounds like an HbA1c in that case. What did it say on the requisition form? Can you remember?
I found the one I have to do in 3 months and your right it's hemoglobin a1c.
It sounds like an HbA1c in that case. What did it say on the requisition form? Can you remember?
Test immediately before you eat
Test again 2 hours after first bite
Then I found this.
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes_care/blood-sugar-level-ranges.html
So is it 2 hours or 90 mins?
The reason we say test 2 hours after first bite is because that time is the only one we have recommended targets for. By 2 hours we should be well on our way down from our peak. Depending on what we eat, we would normally expect to peak somewhere between an hour and 90 minutes, so if you have plenty of strips and are interested in catching your peaks, you can try testing at an hour, at 90 minutes, and at 2 hours. You can also keep testing after the 2 hour mark to see how long it takes to get back where you started. It is entirely up to you, but whatever you do it is wise to write all these down in a structured way so you can learn from it. You should also note that some meals/foods take a lot longer to digest, so you may see more than one spike - and the second may be after the 2 hour mark. It is not an exact science.
@OU812
To back up what bluetit advsies. I keep a food diary. It invololes a bti of planning and measuring but I can see what I ate (and how much) and what impact it has.
As an example a few weeks back, I decided to "test" weetabix - a nice healthy breakfast - to see if I could eat them. Before eating BG was 5.9, ninety (90) mins after it was 7.6 and then dropped to 5.1 after 2 hours. Without the diary I wouldn't be able to look back and see the impact of various foods.
That's pretty close to normal IMO. Sounds like you don't have a big problem going here now.That makes sense. I did my first post meal test last night at 2 hours and I was 5.9.
I have looked online and seen several mentions of at dawn syndrome as well as Somogyi effect. It seems that Somogyi is not common to T2, (maybe its my luck).
Sadly, I am not at all qualified to disagree with your pharmacist, but I'm going to do it anyway. It is said that Metformin has no effect until the dose has been increased to 2000mg. So reducing it to 500mg probably makes taking it at all pointless. Metformin is a pretty harmless drug with a long pedigree, having been prescribed for decades. It has various helpful side effects as well as helping lower bg (though not nearly as much as a low carb diet). Unless a person suffers bad and persisting digestive problems in reaction to Metformin, or unless s/he has achieved totally perfect bg levels, why would anyone stop taking it? And yet people talk about "Getting off Metformin" as if it were heroin.The only med I take is metformin. I am supposed to take 2 a day but with where my numbers have been my pharmacist suggested staying at 1 a day.
I started off testing before and after eating, but once I reduced carbs enough to be below 8mmol/l after eating then I stopped testing so often - and I only eat twice a day, so with being pretty sure that my first meal is not going to cause problems as it is lower in carbs than dinner, I was just testing to see if I could eat a dessert, and gradually stopped bothering as I was seeing after dinner readings of below 7 then below 6.
I stopped eating carbs for about 30 hours from the moment I was informed of the diagnosis, so by the time I got the meter sorted out I was already dropping down below 10mmol/l.How long did it take before you saw your numbers drop with LCHF?