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- Type of diabetes
- Prediabetes
- Treatment type
- Diet only
I keep a check on my Bs in the morning to see if it is time to go to the doc and ask for metformin. I have been on a low carb/low GI + exercise regime for about 10 years and so far so good but lately my numbers are over 6 in the morning - yesterday 6.6 . I was very careful what I ate yesterday because the day before I had been at a party and was eating gluten free flax and seed crackers instead of crisps which were delicious but made from high GI rice flour hence I think caused the 6.6 despite the 2 glasses of red wine which tend to bring my numbers down.
I don't sleep well - only 2 hour stints so while I went to the bathroom at 7 a.m. (too early for me to get up when I had been on my laptop until 2 a.m.) I decided to take my bs and it was a commendable 5.6!! I then decided to take it when I got up at 9 a.m. and it was 6.4 and I hadn't had anything to eat.
Now is this Dawn Phenomenum?
I have just taken my bs as am about to have lunch (probably about 4 hours since I ate breakfast of my usual home made muesli from oats, nuts, seed, etc + home made yoghurt, a small piece of fruit and coffee) and it was 5.3 so I reckon that is normal and OK.
Am not due for my yearly HbA1c until November I think.
Any comments would be appreciated.
I don't sleep well - only 2 hour stints so while I went to the bathroom at 7 a.m. (too early for me to get up when I had been on my laptop until 2 a.m.) I decided to take my bs and it was a commendable 5.6!! I then decided to take it when I got up at 9 a.m. and it was 6.4 and I hadn't had anything to eat.
Now is this Dawn Phenomenum?
I have just taken my bs as am about to have lunch (probably about 4 hours since I ate breakfast of my usual home made muesli from oats, nuts, seed, etc + home made yoghurt, a small piece of fruit and coffee) and it was 5.3 so I reckon that is normal and OK.
Am not due for my yearly HbA1c until November I think.
Any comments would be appreciated.