Ebony, and anybody else who is getting in a 'tiz' about this......... :roll:
This IS a discussion area...... ergo we discuss things, we ask questions, we answer questions. We have a conversation. One member likened it to sitting round a table having coffee, tea and a chat. Well in my chats with people they don't normally throw up their hands in horror and try to dictate what I say, even if it is contrary to what they think. We discuss things, we go off at a tangent, we learn new things, we impart new things, we educate each other.....that's MY view of a chat, a discussion..........We don't all have to agree and we don't all have the same opinions. That is what discussion is all about.
BTW, nobody owns a thread in a discussion area. It isn't up to them what is said and done. At least that is how it used to be........ :?
Nobody is getting angry with anybody, nobody disagrees that testing your fasting levels is a good thing.....what we do take issue with is the premise that fasting levels are ALL that matter, as portrayed in this thread. Frankly it is of no interest to me what somebody elses fasting level is unless they want to try and improve on it, as I have stated before if people want to post their own levels.....not a problem. Whatever 'floats yer boat !' I'm not bothered if you are a Type 1, 1.5, 2, 3 or whatever other type you come under.
Fasting is just one small part of a much bigger picture that any Diabetic has to take into account. It may help some people understand what is happening with their own levels but it certainly doesn't tell the whole story. It may be that you need a fasting level to adjust Insulin/Carb ratios, whatever........
There are people who have posted a level in here who are not being given the advice on how to try and correct those levels, just left to go merrily on their way with high numbers and stumbling from one problem to another. That's not what this place used to be about........help, support and good advice from all sorts of members with plenty of experience of those problems.
Now, if those self same people asked a question in the appropriate area, funnily enough, entitled 'Ask a Question' ......then they may well be given advice on how to lower those levels quite quickly and not have to 'wait two years' as one poster famously put it here, before achieving great Diabetic control and avoiding many complications.
Either it is a discussion or it isn't......if not then it should go in 'General Chat' as Sue suggested.
BTW, still on topic.........this morning 4.7 mmol/l....bit low for me but I was out last night. :wink: