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Have noticed a steady drop in BG levels since buying my monitor [got strips & lancet on presc no problem too] Also symptoms i.e. getting up twice a night for a pee have stopped, still going about every two hours during day though.

Was "down" to 10.9 this morning, but have noticed a real plummet this evening...was 7.5 prior to walking to docs to get prescription and 6.7 when i got back, about a 30 minute round trip.

Is this normal?
 
Numbers going down is normal if you are getting control
 
Mine seem to be all over the place though the general trend is downwards....got a 16.9 last night about 2 hours after eating, but i think i might have messed test up.
 
Your numbers dropping, and not having to visit the loo so often at night is a good thing.. It means that your overall sugar levels are decreasing and the body is stopping it's needs to try and dispose of excess sugar via urine...

What to do next, well you need to find out what sorts of foods are making your sugar levels rise... One of the best ways of doing this is to look at the carb content of the foods you are eating and work out how many carbs you are comsuming... You then need to look at which types of carbs are posing the biggest problems...

Some of the probmatic food sources for raising BG

Pasta, pastry, potatoes, bread, rice, some root vegatables and some fruits...

these do effect diabetics in different ways... Some will have more of a problem with one than another one..

When you managed to identify which carbs are given more problems, then you need to look at what you want to do about it.... You could leave them out and subitute with a lower carb, or sometimes just having a smaller portion of that particular carb might do the trick...

You also need to concider what time of day you are eating certain types of carbs, it could be to eat toast (bread) in the morning or dinner time, you get a surge of a BG raise, but if you have it at tea time then the effect is a lot less...

Bit of a trial and error in finding out, and remembering to jot everything down, which do try to include whether you exercised, felt off, or had the sniffles that day... the better the montioring picture you can build, the easier and clearer whats causing what, and how you may tackle it becomes a lot easier...
 
Thanks.

Have managed to work out so far that spuds [16.9] put BG level up higher than boiled rice [14.7] and would guess that the oven chips i had tonight will at least double the 6.7 reading.

Dear knows what i'll replace these foods with when i determine which is doing most damage.

Is it possible to have a type 1 diagnosis at 43? Surely type 1 would have been detected long before now, what with all the blood tests i've had this past 5 years?
 
Hi,

I'm type 1, diagnosed 3 months ago and I am 45, so yes it's possible. When I was diagnosed, the doctor at the hospital told me that they are seeing an increase in type 1 in the over 40's. I was totally unaware I could be type one at my age. I thought you only got type 1 when you were young.

Caitycakes x
 
I think there are quite a few of us diagnosed later on in life.Although initially wrongly diagnosed as Type 2 five years ago, I was re-diagnosed as LADA (Late onset Type 1) about 6 weeks ago and I'm 50. Your readings do seem quite high. Are you on meds.?
 
Bit of a shock that about type 1 diagnosis at 45 & 50.

Am not on meds and hope to avoid them...down to 9.9 this am, but have noticed that the further my reading drops the more hungry and irritable i feel.

Could this be because my body been used to being "high"?
 
I was 38 on diagnosisof type 1 and was also surprised. Interestingly my diabetic clinic has a patient who was over 70 and diagnosed type 1 so I guess anything is possible. Also I think that generally type 1 comes on quickly not over a number of years.

Incidentally I was surprised that you are no meds, as I understand it if you are type 1 you do not produce any insulin and therefore have to have insulin. That was certainly the case with me - I wasn't given a choice.

hth

Louise
 
TROUBR said:
I was 38 on diagnosisof type 1 and was also surprised. Interestingly my diabetic clinic has a patient who was over 70 and diagnosed type 1 so I guess anything is possible. Also I think that generally type 1 comes on quickly not over a number of years.
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It's a little known fact that adult onset Type 1s outnumber childhood onsets by about 2:1

Generally the older you are the slower the onset, a child can go from normal to die without insulin within days, for some LADAs it may take months or even years.
 
TROUBR said:
Incidentally I was surprised that you are no meds, as I understand it if you are type 1 you do not produce any insulin and therefore have to have insulin. That was certainly the case with me - I wasn't given a choice.
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Haven't actually been diagnosed yet, had a reading of 15 on a fasting glucose, and have been working to reduce it since....down to 6.7 this afternoon....seems to shoot up after evening meal then spend the next 12 hours dropping, the lunch i take to work doesn't seem to elevate my BG levels.

Am presuming i am type 2 [or will be] because my levels are dropping significantly by diet alone. And i had an exceptionally bad diet for the year prior to my "15" reading. Am out and about all day and bags of sweets here, mars bars there were hopefully what done the damage.
 
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