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I think other peoples reactions and lack of understanding can undermine acceptance, as their seems to be quite a variation in the diabetes profile and how it effects each person. After you've had diabetes a while you don't need to test as much as you get to know by how you feel. Though you can...

Lesleywo, ask for an extended 6hr OGTT, taking readings every 30mins, if only your HbA1c is done and you are going very high and low as it is a mean of three months it will fail to show it. Large fluctuations in blood sugar will effect your vision temporarily, either to high or low.

The last reading on Lesleywo, is probably: thats her own insulin response was well calibrated ( I.e not excessive), to her blood sugar levels, and had ceased, while food just metabolized to glucose is still entering her blood stream. Also the liver releases glucagon to raise blood sugar amongst...

Thanks, one thing is for sure this kind of blood glucose profile can really mess up your life, not least because it can so easily be missed, resulting in years of unnecessary misery, thank goodness for the OGTT (oral glucose tolerance test) which will identify impaired glucose tolerance, and...

Well that's the HI Kevin, well that's the problem, if it peaks high and falls fast at worst a fitting hypo. I regularly have a blood glucose of 13mmol falling to 2.1mmol and thats on a low carb diet! Never mind a OGTT, so am banned from drving. Yet my HbA1c will come in as non diabetic as it's...

Does anyone get numb hands?

What were the readings in between? I know when a glucose tolerance test is done on me, my 2hr value is 15.5mmol/l and it peaks around 20mmol/l and then at 4,5,6hrs falls to below 3mmol/l

Hi Azure, I certainly wasn't implying any diagnosis just pointing out the limitations of HbA1c across the spectrum of diabetic states, IFG,IGT bloodsugar disregulation etc. And suggesting see the doc and ask for appropriate tests. Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

Maybe a few of you are having reactive hypoglycemia.. Ask for a OGTT 6HR or 72hr fast. Sent from the Diabetes Forum App Edited by a moderator

You may have reactive hypoglycemia. BG above 11.1mmol/L and BG below 3.5 or less mmol/l. Ask for a 6hr OGTT. Sent from the Diabetes Forum App Edited by a moderator to remove implied diagnosis

Have a fried breakfast, eat complex carb later. If on insulin then lower the dose if you have not eaten carbohydrate. Remember exercise will cause you blood glucose to fall more quickly, and you do need to eat some form of carbhydrate its a basic building block. Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

I think HbAc1 is a poor way to measure other blood sugar abnormalities. Infact it may miss diabetics and almost all those that have acute hyperglycemia i.e above 11.1mmol/L and acute hypoglycemia i.e 3.5mmol/L. It is essential that the extended OGTT remains as the gold standard for the...

According to all criteria for the diagnosis of diabetes 1 or 2 random blood tests with a reading above 11.1mmol/L is diagnostic for diabetes, whether you have eaten or not. The HbA1c is a poor way to measure diabetes or disregulation of blood sugar as it does not pick up people who are going...

Hmmm 5.3 is not low unless your blood sugar had been very high for some time i.e. 15 either way if you are having a fitting hypo (with me below 2.8 and very symptomatic) then 1 glucose tablet will give a quick rise but needs to be followed with a slice of brown bread. Sent from the Diabetes...

Olive oil is an unsaturated fat and believed to be better ( it is very close to the body's oil i.e lipids that form the cell membrane in all the cells in uor body), i love butter. Fried potatoe will lessen the chance of a bg spike as the fat/oil slows down the absorption of carbohydrate mash...

I'm curious as to how they expect all sick people to work but are cutting the basic care they need to enable them to. Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

This stopping prescriptions for test strips is crazy. For me it would be seriously dangerous. On eating say a slice of bread my BG will hit at least 11+ rising at a rate of 1mmol/min, it will then fall at 1mmol/min To 2.8 or so, add exercise the fall may be quicker, resulting in a fit. My...

Oats are great bananna is terrible, if i eat a bananna my BG will go from say 4.4 up to 15 and then crash to below 4.4 Same with sugar, white rice, corn. What is good is chickpeas ,nuts, green veg ,whole grain bread, lentils, beans. Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

Mine was 3.2 this morning. Mind you it was 3.1 when i went to sleep/passed out? Sent from the Diabetes Forum App