Type 2's: What was your fasting blood glucose in a morning?

[vit90]

Metformin 1000 Prolonged release (1 with evening meal) I don't add dressings and diet is unchanged.Testing my blood with 2 different testers.
1Nexus GlucoRx
2 Codefree

How well do the to meters correlate generally?

 

[Croc]

7.4 this morning, due im sure to the apple crumble last night.

It was worth every mouthful though.

 

[msmi1970]

Good Morning Everyone.

5.5

 

[vit90]

78 mg/dl or 4.33 mmoles/l. Very cold and windy morning here, just great. 05:45 its 22 deg

Celsius or Fahrenheit?

 

[phil1966]

An unexciting but steady 5.3 this morning for me

 

[hankjam]

4.8 am

 

[Baruney]

Absolute car crash on the carbs front last night and a resulting 8.0 fasting this morning.

Not feeling very good but as they say...noted and move on!

 

[vit90]

Be interesting to know if your expert differs from the experts on this site like a great many doctors nurses and specialists seem to do.

I believe so. I am just saying that I, like many of us here (most?) reject the old advice of eating good carbs at the same time as trying to limit fat and throw in medication as well. Anyway here is the person in question,Dr.Brian Mowll, recommending, among other things, keeping meals to within a 6 hour period each day:

I don't want to simply manage my expectations with my condition at this stage. Until I have exhausted all possibilities I will work as hard as I can to reverse* the condition, which many have succeeded. This requires motivation, which is why I don't want people who seem to have accepted their condition - even if they don't realise it - trying to undermine that commitment, especially if they unceremoniously reject my comments based on good intention in the first place.

Diabetes is not walk in the park and does require a degree of hard work and some discomfort if one wants to try to reverse it.

*Just to clarify, my use of the term 'reverse' does not mean a 100% cure. My goal is to restore insulin sensitivity so that I don't have to worry too much about reacting negativeky to a sensible moderate carb diet in the future. There is no way that going back to my then 'sensible' low fat high carb diet would at all be acceptable and I will need to maintain a much higher degree of physical activity and fitness than was the case up until last year. Weight and the related body fat levels are the key so I will be watching my diet and fitness along with weight for the rest of my life.

 

[oldman1954]

Morning all 5.1 this wet morning.

 

[mojo37]

Snap anything in the fours and I feel rough

Anything in low 4's or mid 3 and I feel really yuk

 

[mojo37]

Had salad contained lettuce,tomatoes,spring onions and cucumber +two thin slices of beef. Blood is now 15.9.

What was it before you ate ?

 

[RobOwen]

5.0 at bedtime - 4.6 this morning on waking.

 

[mojo37]

Perhaps, but I have thought along similar lines I believe. In the past I have had modest less than 2 increases post meal but ending up at 8 or higher. The problem is that if my insulin sensitivity was any good at that time I would not start off as high as 7 or 8 to start with. So a modest rise on an already too high number is not worth much.

I know higher figure are worse I was just wondering why if I start at a ( good figure ) so to speak my sugars can spike more than if I start at a higher figure I would have assumed ( with the same meal ) that the rise would be the same ratio .

 

[mojo37]

7.6 this am ..dam pasta last night ..tho readings were 7.8 before bed ...note to oneself must be more active in bed

 

[WeeFergus]

Good morning all. I had a 5.7 fasting reading this morning after a 6.5 one at bedtime.

 

[brettsza]

5.1 fasting

 

[chris270181]

6.0 this morning I seem to get a high 5/6 every few days checked again before eating and was 5.7

 

[vit90]

I know higher figure are worse I was just wondering why if I start at a ( good figure ) so to speak my sugars can spike more than if I start at a higher figure I would have assumed ( with the same meal ) that the rise would be the same ratio .

My guess, and it's just a guess, is that if you start at a lower level then the proportion of new BG from your meal in the resulting level is higher even if it is the same quantity added as when the starting level is higher.

 

[vit90]

What was it before you ate ?

Exactly!

 

[JohnD54]

7.6 this am ..dam pasta last night ..tho readings were 7.8 before bed ...note to oneself must be more active in bed

Naughty but nice lol, did make me chuckle