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    Fasting

    Yeah definitely, I have been in ketosis for some time now. I seem to go into it very easily and have a pretty wide threshold of carbs before I get kicked out of it.
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    Fasting

    I have to agree, the first time I started with keto dieting, before I realised there was anything fundamentally wrong with my blood sugar I was fasting for 18 hours in the same way. I was having a bulletproof coffee in the morning (coffee, 2 tablespoons of butter, 2 tablespoons of coconut oil)...
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    GTT help with interpretation

    Cheers, it's a possibility, I'll definitely do some more research on it. I had my thyroid checked 12 months ago and all was well apparently. But like most things, I need to look into the testing methods further and double check everything...........sigh. I don't mean to be negative to doctors...
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    First time using ketostix

    From what I have read (and experienced), keto stix just tell you that there are excess ketones being excreted. The colour, or mmol/L is more indicative of your hydration levels. I notice that the colour is much darker in the afternoon after exercise and if I drink a lot of water, the colour is...
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    GTT help with interpretation

    Thanks guys. I'm certainly understanding things a lot better now and have increased optimism about controlling this, even if I haven't got the faintest idea (yet) about the root cause. Yeah, not such a big spike, I only had around 40 grams of carbs as I really didn't want to kick myself out of...
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    GTT help with interpretation

    This morning I ate a pretty carb heavy breakfast and tested my blood glucose every 10 minutes and finally found the spike. I started at 5.2 and spiked to 7.2 10 minutes after eating. Within the next 10 minutes I had dropped back to 5.2 and then 10 minutes later 4.4. Within the hour I was back...
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    Supplementing with Vitamins

    In terms of lowering blood sugar, I have found that ALA is good for around 4-6 hours. I find that pycnogenol is perhaps the most potent and lasts around 8-12 hours, closely followed by grape seed extract. All of those anti inflammatory type supplements seem to lower blood sugar (funny that). If...
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    Supplementing with Vitamins

    I have been on a journey through supplements etc in the past 12 to 18 months. Alpha Lipoic Acid will drop your blood sugar as will pycnogenol (pine bark extract) and grape seed extract. I can personally attest to that, I gave myself some pretty crazy hypo's with these supplements, I can't tell...
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    GTT help with interpretation

    Thanks @nosher8355, I definitely need to do some more tests. According to my test results "All values are within normal limits" hopefully my GP has the foresight to realise that no, these aren't normal results. Apparently, 3.6 is considered the lowest possible value in the normal range, in my...
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    GTT help with interpretation

    Thanks Brunneria and Indy51, I saw that KRAFT video linked on another post somewhere in this forum. I'll get watching both of those video's now. So I would be right in assuming that my blood sugar readings etc are unusual and don't really fit the standard RH profile?
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    Help! Can anyone explain this please?

    http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/12/30/255778250/cinnamon-can-help-lower-blood-sugar-but-one-variety-may-be-best Just a thought.
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    GTT help with interpretation

    I definitely do get hypo symptoms, more in line with reactive hypoglycemia and I have ever since I was a kid. If I wasn't eating well and was out playing basketball all day I would get hypo symptoms, which at the time I just assumed was because I was hungry, I'd go and eat something sweet and...
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    GTT help with interpretation

    I'm still waiting to get my doctors interpretation, the pathology lab won't comment. I have since bought a meter and have been checking it regularly, it has pretty much backed up what I saw in the test. It doesn't seem to matter what I eat, my readings just don't go up after eating and after 2...
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    GTT help with interpretation

    It was a medically supervised test at a pathology lab.
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    GTT help with interpretation

    Hi guys I have recently undertaken a GTT 2 hour test with fasting Insulin due to a ramping up of hypoglycemic events in the past few months although I can remember having hypo events as far back as when I was 7 years old. My doctor has gone on holidays and I'm not seeing an endo yet but my...