Any advice would be great thanks.

sheil19

sheil19

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Hi just looking for a bit of advice on the following. Dinner yesterday BG was 6.7 and 3 hours later it was 5.7 then before bed checked and I rose to 9.3. I had nothing to eat since my dinner and bed. Didn't correct my 9.3 and when I woke I was 6.9. Anybody have any clues in what's happening? Thanks


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ewelina

ewelina

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What did you have for dinner? If it was high fat or protein or low GI it possible your sugar went up a bit later.
 
Pepsi Max

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Personally before I got my pump I would have been happy with those readings. Did you have something high in Saturated fat like a steak? This can take longer to digest causing a spike in BS much later...


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Pepsi Max

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PS one thing I've learned over the years is no matter how strict, by the book or routined you are every once in a while your BS will just do what they want to, regardless of what "the book" says... It's a constant calculation


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QuirkyBit

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Pepsi Max said:
Personally before I got my pump I would have been happy with those readings. Did you have something high in Saturated fat like a steak? This can take longer to digest causing a spike in BS much later...


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I'd love readings like that at the moment. Hopefully a pump will help.
 
AndyS

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I seem similar behaviour with some foods. Typically pasta that is slightly under done and loaded with cheese or a pizza.
The fix I found was to just tweak the recipes a bit to try and adjust the Gi a bit which seems to have helped a bit.

One thing I have noticed is that the test 2 hours after eating can be a bit of a lottery and so I tend to ignore it these days and just work on the next test before meal.
Bed time test I tend to treat more as an indicator if I need to have a snack or correct, the corrections tend to be a bit on the conservative side so that I don't have a night time hypo. I find that after a night hypo I tend to bounce and be quite high in the morning.

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