blood glucose

Hi everyone :) I'm a final year Product Design Engineering student at Edinburgh Napier University. I am designing a blood glucose meter for my honours project and I need your help! I'm passionate about inclusive design and I want to design a blood glucose meter that is easier to use for...

Kind of at my wits end with this meter now, I was given it by my nurse last year because she fears DKA like the plague so yay for me there but lately it has been giving me some abnormal readings. Last strip batch had me at 6.5 one strip then the next at 5.1! So I have no clue what to trust as...

Hi everyone so I am newly diagnosed t2, my main goal is to of course get my bg to normal range and lose weight, I am currently doing slimming world which is working very well for me, In 4 weeks I have lost 9.5 pounds which I am very pleased with. I know slimming world can be a very high carb...

so 4 weeks ago I had a blood test as my periods were playing up, had a phone call to say my blood glucose levels were high, my hba1c was 8.4, so 4 weeks later just my second blood test to ‘confirm it’, my hb1ac was 7.7...which I guess mean I’m type 2 diabetic.....I’m gutted and very upset I’ve...

So I had my second blood test today to confirm if I have diabetes or not....I mentioned in my first post I was told my number was 8.4, which was my hba1c result I think converted the new way it’s 68mmol/mol....so I am very nervous now they said they should get my results back tomorrow. I have...

hi everyone I’m 23 years old, and I had a blood test 2 weeks ago and my doctor phoned me this week about my result (I was having problems with my period), he said my blood sugar levels were high and he think I may have diabetes, I had a reading of 8.4 mmol..... I have been really worrying...

GlucoMen Areo and Glucomen Areo 2K. I really cannot recommend either. They both require a larger sample than my old Freestyle lite, and as a result I have to prick myself 2-3 times for a sufficiently large sample, and I use 2 strips for every result as I keep getting an error (too small amount...

https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/blood-sugar-levels-response-foods-are-highly-individual?fbclid=IwAR3U_5rbyPdppr37QClV4zW3Y474FoJ3uI1_u37t2KPK3uVSc2Yi0o2H1QQ in this experiment with food contributing to blood glucose levels some weird results emerge... have any of you seen and...

This article in Diabetes Daily surprised me by claiming that eating fat raises bg. https://www.diabetesdaily.com/blog/protein-fat-may-also-affect-blood-glucose-levels-573634/ I knew that protein can raise bg, albeit more slowly than carbs, but fat???

Hey, I just wanted to share an experience I've had with the freestyle libre this morning which has left me really shaken. I woke up at 7:20am as normal, checked my BG through the libre and it said I was 7.7 and steady. Happy days! I got out of bed to have a shower and whilst in the shower...

Hello I have been told to monitor my blood sugar levels This morning I woke with 8.5 mol Before lunchtime it was 6.5 mol After lunch was 5.6mol Now it’s 7.6 mol Is this normal ? Regards James

So I've recently been diagnosed with pre-diabetes, from blood tests, and immediately started a low-carb diet (not that my previous diet was particularly high in carbs). Then the results of a scan showed that I have a Kidney Stone in my left kidney about 1cm in size and a fatty liver. As the...

he everyone Iv have been diagnosed for 2 month and managed to loose 1 1/2 stone my diabetic nurse is re testing my hba1c again already as she thinks my blood sugars are really well controlled and wants me off metformin (100mg a day ) asap. She recommended a low carb 1200 cal a day diet and I...

https://trailrunnermag.com/training/increase-your-blood-volume-get-faster.html An interesting article here from "Trail Runner" magazine claiming that by training consistently (over weeks) and preferably adding in some intensity, we can increase the volume of our blood and become faster runners...

Please join this interesting discussion... Is there a direct relationship between the fasting blood glucose levels with your HBA1C? For example, if a fasting blood glucose level reads between 5-6 mmols/l, does it also mean a lower HBA1C?

So I thought I would share my last set of libre results. I have never had a hba1c below 7. But with the help of the libre I am on track for drastic improvement. In 25 years of having diabetes and average hba1c results of 7-8% I can finally see where the problems were. Not only that but the...

With lucozade reducing its carb sugar ratio, is Coke better for treating Hypos? Coke has 10.4g of sugar for 10.4g of carb!

So this morning I woke up at Blood sugar of 7. Using the libre i was similar. Stead blood through the night. I commuted into work on my bike, but the amazing thing was that without eating and the process of getting ready to get on the bike, my blood 15 min later went to 11! It was almost like...

Hello all! Need some urgent advice please... I have been unwell with a bad cold for around 24hrs now, and I have had raised BG levels all day, despite my efforts to correct them. I checked 10 mins ago and it was 31.6! I have taken 3 units of insulin to try and bring it down, and I have...

Hello everyone , This is my first post on the forum . I tried to search for similiar topics but didnt find any solutions to my problems . Ive had bad BGs last 2 years and was thinking of a way to fix this problem . I started to work out with my own bodyweight back in december 2017 . After a...