I checked my meter memory and it said 13 not 18 so not quite as high as I thought - I can be a bit dyslexic when it comes to numbers.
However, to update, it's now nine days since I ate a bag of popcorn and my numbers have still not settled. I have done two fasts, one of 7.5 hours, one of 14 hours and my numbers didn't come down. Maybe me being anxious is part of the problem ?
I'm not dehydrated, no frothy pee (sorry if TMI), blurry vision etc and BP is fine. Numbers between 8-10 is way too high for me though.
My husband's theory is that I threw my body for a loop with the popcorn and got it completely out of routine by doing fasts.
Today, ended 14 hrs fast with wild calamari with cracked black pepper (not much choice of stuff from M&S to eat in car) which was 0.6g carbs, 30g protein. Although I walked about up and down stairs and up hills and did probably three miles in three hours my sugar budged from 10.7 to 10.4 and then two hours after eating the calamari it was 8.5
I'm just so unused to high numbers that this freaks me out. I'm worrying that I fried my pancreas now.
Husband says I should concentrate on eating at regular times, upping fat, keeping carbs low, see how restricting protein a bit goes.
I'm hoping this is sensible advice.