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A serious Question

ok, this thread has appeared in a very timely way. i am having my next hba1c tomorrow - i've been monitoring my blood sugar levels a couple of times on two/three days a week for over a year now - always do the fbg (but i 'm going to change that, having read the info above) and then either one a couple of hours after a meal or a random one, depending on what else is happening. the average of all my measurements over the last 3 months is below 6mmol/l, so i'm keeping my fingers crossed .... but good to hear that there is no direct relationship between daily monitoring and hba1c results, as if i didn't now know that, i'd be feeling very confused if it comes back a lot higher than i'm expecting. and if it does, then i'll need to pay more attention to possible spikes. in any case, i'm going to switch to the pre- and post-meal testing system, as i probably am still eating a few things that spike my levels - i may well end up living on fish, eggs, avocados and nuts .....
 
KathyCP said:
ok, this thread has appeared in a very timely way. i am having my next hba1c tomorrow - i've been monitoring my blood sugar levels a couple of times on two/three days a week for over a year now - always do the fbg (but i 'm going to change that, having read the info above) and then either one a couple of hours after a meal or a random one, depending on what else is happening. the average of all my measurements over the last 3 months is below 6mmol/l, so i'm keeping my fingers crossed .... but good to hear that there is no direct relationship between daily monitoring and hba1c results, as if i didn't now know that, i'd be feeling very confused if it comes back a lot higher than i'm expecting. and if it does, then i'll need to pay more attention to possible spikes. in any case, i'm going to switch to the pre- and post-meal testing system, as i probably am still eating a few things that spike my levels - i may well end up living on fish, eggs, avocados and nuts .....
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KathyCP said:
How often and when after eating do you measure your bs spikes?
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I keep it simple & measure 2 hours after eating - on a sporadic basis, if I feel my blood sugar may be high eg I feel tired or I am unsure how a particular meal might affect by blood sugars... I count anything over 6.7 as too high for me.
 
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Biggles2 said:
Well, she is wrong. Many of us are successfully managing our Type 2 without medications!

What really upsets me about your experience, is the lack of support from your DN and the way she made you feel as someone who is trying to be proactive about your health. Full disclosure: I am a nurse, and it saddens me to hear of experiences like yours! The nursing profession exists for the sole purpose of helping people manage their health conditions. @woodywhippet61, if I were your DN I would do a happy dance if you were my patient! Proactive individuals like you make it all worthwhile in my book!:)
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Thanks.

I'm not the only one on this forum who has had this kind of experience. Maybe my next meeting in a couple of weeks time will go better, she might have been having a bad day.
 
woodywhippet61 said:
My bottom line is that I don't want to take meds. The DN has said that I won't be able to manage my type 2 without taking meds and I was sneered at for asking what level I had to get down to in order not to have to take them.
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Do we have the same DN?? :) When I told her I wasn't going to take my tablets, she said if I wouldn't taken them I'd have to have insulin injections!!! I haven't been to see her since my last Hba1c, but part of me feels I should have made an appointment with her just to see what she has to say.
 
Buttons11 said:
Do we have the same DN?? :) When I told her I wasn't going to take my tablets, she said if I wouldn't taken them I'd have to have insulin injections!!! I haven't been to see her since my last Hba1c, but part of me feels I should have made an appointment with her just to see what she has to say.
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It's a form of bullying. If you don't go do you still have the eye screening?
 
Mr_Pot said:
I wouldn't bother with a random test, as you won't know what it means.
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well i guess the thinking behind it is that it gives me an idea of what my levels are doing when i'm not actually digesting my food - the nutritionist who recommended that i switch to a lchf diet, and who works with a lot of people with diabetes, told me that testing sugar levels, doing a mix of fbg, pre-and post-test and random ones, helps give an overall picture of what's happening. as i found him so helpful, and got such good results following his advice, i'm inclined to trust what he says, being pretty ignorant about all these sort of details myself.
 
caroline_92 said:
I keep it simple & measure 2 hours after eating - on a sporadic basis, if I feel my blood sugar may be high eg I feel tired or I am unsure how a particular meal might affect by blood sugars... I count anything over 6.7 as too high for me.
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that's really useful, thank you. 80% of my post-meal readings over the last three months have been between 5.3 and 6.7, with only 20% being higher, and only one or two about 7, so i'm cautiously optimistic about things. it'd probably be a good idea for me to start making a note of which food pushes them higher. i guess i don't want to face the possibility of having to restrict my diet any more than it is already.
 
Good morning all my friends I now realise that I was putting far to much importance on the FBG religiously doing them every morning and noticing that my averages were now round the 5.9/6/0 mark ,and have difficulty keeping them under 6/0 ,and you were right @Squire Fulwood and @Bluetit1802 you have both been a tremendous help as have everyone since O was diagnosed 1 year ago and for that I thank you both,I got to the point where I was testing my FBG 3/4 times in the first half hour of getting up and when it read 6.o 20 minutes later it would read 5.9,I shall give them a miss for a while ,Thank you your advice and friendship are very much appreciated.I will admit that seeing some of our friends with regular readings of 4's and 5's does set one thinking what am I doing wrong,I am sure there are others who feel the same at times,I am just being totally honest as I always am.Thank you:)
 
Off to see my GP later this morning who has told me not to test, that I wasted my money on buying a Freestyle Libre to test, and that because of my job if I can't control my T2', then I would be sent to a DSN (which rather sounded like being sent to see the headmistress!)

As per my sig... using a Flash Glucose Monitor, I almost halved my A1C in 3 months and my FBG came down by over 1/3 from 18.5 to 6.1.

I think I had a dodgy sensor this last time that jumped ship ystd, and the new one seems to be a touch more reliable as my FBG in the mornings have been in the normal range for a while, but I agree for me the real value has been meal time testing, and also exercise testing to see just how far it drops after a work out.

We'll see what he says, but he is also not particularly impressed with my being proactive, which is a little disappointing really. They tell you to take this seriously and when you do then they tell you what they meant was take ALL the tablets, and take more... not work tirelessly to take none!!!
 
Bluetit1802 said:
I completely agree.
I am always concerned to see newcomers and not so newcomers stressing over their FBG. When I was new I joined in the morning fasting thread, but didn't like all the competition going on.(among other trivial things). Newcomers were getting stressed because they weren't seeing numbers as low as other folk. That was in 2014 sometime, and it is still happening. There is far too much emphasis on it. I try to tell new people to forget FBG and concentrate on their pre and post meal levels, and that the pre-evening meal one is the best indication of how they are doing in general.
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Hi Bluetit. May I ask your opinion? I've been on very low carb for a month or so.
Things seem to have changed a bit and I'm getting higher pre-evening meal readings on my meter. (5.5 2 weeks ago, 6.9 yesterday). That was after 2 very low carb meals at breakfast and lunch. No snacking with plenty of water and sugarless coffee. Readings actually came down after dinner to 6.1. Could this be down to liver dump during the day you think?
Sorry to be an idiot.
 
wiseowl_123 said:
Good morning all my friends I now realise that I was putting far to much importance on the FBG religiously doing them every morning and noticing that my averages were now round the 5.9/6/0 mark ,and have difficulty keeping them under 6/0 ,and you were right @Squire Fulwood and @Bluetit1802 you have both been a tremendous help as have everyone since O was diagnosed 1 year ago and for that I thank you both,I got to the point where I was testing my FBG 3/4 times in the first half hour of getting up and when it read 6.o 20 minutes later it would read 5.9,I shall give them a miss for a while ,Thank you your advice and friendship are very much appreciated.I will admit that seeing some of our friends with regular readings of 4's and 5's does set one thinking what am I doing wrong,I am sure there are others who feel the same at times,I am just being totally honest as I always am.Thank you:)
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Now add meter variation into the mix ie your meter might read higher than someone else's.
 
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