Troubled1
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
For the last couple of weeks I have been testing my bg religiously pre and post prandial as well as fasting bg’s. My numbers have averaged between 8.0 (fasting) and then between 5.3-7.3. I haven’t had bread or rice but did have a potato Wednesday.
My eating has pretty much been one meal in a 24 hour period most days. Every 3rd day I would snack on a few slices of Genoa salami if I got hungry in the afternoon and that would hold me until dinner.
I was getting worried as my 14, 30 and 90 day averages, according to my meter were creeping upwards. Today for some reason I took my creatine supplement out and mixed up a glass. This morning my fasting bg was 7.4. At 10:00am I was down to 6.7 only having had coffee with 33% cream and water. At 11:00am I drank my creatine supplement. Now at 4:00pm my bg is 4.2.
Any other day when testing at this time my bg has been 5.7-6.9 I had the same results during the summer when I used the creatine but thought the low numbers were due to strenuous exercise. Today just a light workout (nowhere near my summer workouts) yet my numbers with the creatine are very close. During the summer I actually dipped as low as 3.1 (no symptoms of hypo). That made me uncomfortable so I ate something to bring it up a bit.
Now however I’m going to see what a daily creatine drink will do with my numbers. I will also endeavor to keep my hydration the same as not to skew the numbers. This should be interesting.
Has anyone else had the lowering affect of bg’s using creatine?
My eating has pretty much been one meal in a 24 hour period most days. Every 3rd day I would snack on a few slices of Genoa salami if I got hungry in the afternoon and that would hold me until dinner.
I was getting worried as my 14, 30 and 90 day averages, according to my meter were creeping upwards. Today for some reason I took my creatine supplement out and mixed up a glass. This morning my fasting bg was 7.4. At 10:00am I was down to 6.7 only having had coffee with 33% cream and water. At 11:00am I drank my creatine supplement. Now at 4:00pm my bg is 4.2.
Any other day when testing at this time my bg has been 5.7-6.9 I had the same results during the summer when I used the creatine but thought the low numbers were due to strenuous exercise. Today just a light workout (nowhere near my summer workouts) yet my numbers with the creatine are very close. During the summer I actually dipped as low as 3.1 (no symptoms of hypo). That made me uncomfortable so I ate something to bring it up a bit.
Now however I’m going to see what a daily creatine drink will do with my numbers. I will also endeavor to keep my hydration the same as not to skew the numbers. This should be interesting.
Has anyone else had the lowering affect of bg’s using creatine?
