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Hi, I know this feeling. Yes, stress will often elevate people's blood glucose, because the liver is trying to prepare for a fight or flee. That glucose is assembled by the liver - it doesn't come (directly) from food. In one sense, we've processed the glucose eaten once already, and that...

It all depends how you use them. My experience is that I needed a structured rather than random pattern of testing. I found that testing immediately before food and then at +2 hours was extremely useful in enabling me to work out which foods (and illness, and exercise, and stress) did what to my...

@Melgar this is interesting - I read it some time ago and thought I'd found an explanation. Burt no. Maybe I didn't put enough emphasis on the fact that it comes and goes. Without anything much changing, it does or doesn't happen. I can have a run of two months of sweats with two or three or...

Hi Gerry - you're responding to a thread from 2010 so I doubt you'll get many answers from the original posters.

Do you mean 5.1 mmol/litre? If so that's a reasonable reading in itself, but if you want to see how well your system handled your breakfast you'd need to test immediately before eating and two hours later. Lots of things affect our BG, not just food, and it would probably be hard to detect the...

My tests are every year, by agreement with the DN and at my suggestion. I've been stable (within a range of 4 mmol/mol) into a fifth year now, and I really don't want tests any more frequently. I guess if you want tests more often, then you need to ask for them and have a few good reasons...

This is from B&D and it shows the same kind of thing.

Bilous and Donnelly's Handbook of Diabetes might be a good place to start. For instance, B&D say that 48 mmol/l was chosen as the automatic diagnosis point because moderate diabetic retinopathy is rare at levels beneath that figure, but incidence rises sharply at higher levels. PDF here...

@Melgar - interesting. The thing is, it only ever happens between 4 and 6 am while I'm asleep. You'd think if there was something up with the insulin receptors it would happen at other times. And the same goes for the compression low explanation - only between 4 and 6 am, and by coincidence...

I've tried this explanation, but while simple it doesn't reflect how I sleep - I don't do tossing and turning at all. The effect also appeared when I wore the sensor on my chest. It's not a classic "hypo" in the sense that correcting it needs outside intervention via added glucose, but there...

The problem with the compression low theory is that it doesn't explain why artificial compression lows (if that's what they are) coincide with the nightmares, sweating, and waking confusion. I'd been having these for eight years before I ever tried a CGM.

T2 here. I regularly experience lows around 3-5am - at first I didn't realise they were lows - I have nightmares, waking up drenched in sweat, cold, confused. This all would clear up of its own accord very quickly. It was only when I tried a CGM that I realised these experiences coincide with...

Hi, sorry to read about your difficulties. I have no personal experience of this myself. Bilous and Donnelly, which is the NHS Handbook on Diabetes, says that retinopathy is the general term as the retina is the main part of the eye affected, but both the iris and the lens can also be...

Last 24 hours with estimated carb count: usual four shots out of a six shot mocha pot, with double cream and stevia: (zero) Low carb SRSLY bun toasted with butter: (2g) can zero carb caffeine drink: (zero) 3 fried eggs, 4 Italian fennel sausages (99% meat), 60g Stornoway black pudding, 3...

Diabetic neuropathy is a nerve condition, generally starting with the longest nerves first, and it won't show up on x rays or MRI. Mine improved no end when I reduced my blood glucose. All I get now is a very mild tingle, which is probably permanent damage, but it isn't pain.

Hi SyncSaqib and welcome to the forums. I'm sorry to hear that your father is in this situation. Unfortunately no-one on this forum can provide you with answers to the questions you're asking - we can't give medical advice. Some people might however have been in a similar position and can tell...

The fingerprint tests measure blood glucose at that point - and there are ways of producing low or high readings depending on a lot of things, of which food is only one. You also dont have any data from when you're not testing. It might be worth looking at some constant glucose monitor graphs on...

As others have said, it depends on your definition of "reverse". That could mean anything from lowering your blood glucose a little to returning your BG to levels around 38ish plus reducing or removing symptoms. In my case I was undiagnosed for about ten years, with a large range of diabetic...

What you've missed is the increasing evidence, including the Korean reserach, that what current orthodoxy calls "high cholesterol" - ie over 5.0 mmol/l and up to around 6.5mmol/l - possibly higher, according to your Korean research - is in fact the lowest mortality risk. The "elevated...

I don't think this paper (thank you for posting it) says what you think it does. It rather confirms the HUNT2 findings - which also show a similar u-shaped effect. For example, the authors say: It is unclear whether associations between total cholesterol (TC) levels and all-cause mortality and...