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BG levels. One size fits all ?

daisyduck

daisyduck

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Great Yarmouth
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Diet only
Hi everyone. I've been reading with interest lots of posts here on the forums and am wondering if we have an individual optimum BG level. I feel healthiest when mine are in the 5-6 range. If I go into the 4's I feel a bit weak and uncomfortable.
A diabetic friend of mine tests his wife (non diabetic) every now and again just to check his meter is working properly as he says she is always the same at 2.7 .. which I would have thought was too low.. but she feels fine at that?
What BG level you feel most comfortable with ?
 
Personally if my morning FBG is in the 5s I know it's a good day. I generally like to go into 6s after eating, maybe drop down to 4.5 or so minimum.

Last weekend was a bad food week so I've been up in the 7s and even 8s this week, not good. Feeling rough all week as I try to shake the carb hangover.

I think learning your good levels helps you to control.
 
I'm type 2, but I feel **** below 4.5.
A quick snack, over 5, and I'm fine again.
 
I like between 85 and 92 haha. Tight line but I stay right around there most times. If I'm below 75 I need a SMALL snack like some veggies. I don't like being k ear 100 BUT this is what my body is used to. Before DX when I was high I felt fine and coming down felt horrible. Now it's been used to this for some time. I would rather go a little high than low though.
 
Kristin251 said:
I like between 85 and 92 haha. Tight line but I stay right around there most times. If I'm below 75 I need a SMALL snack like some veggies. I don't like being k ear 100 BUT this is what my body is used to. Before DX when I was high I felt fine and coming down felt horrible. Now it's been used to this for some time. I would rather go a little high than low though.
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82-95mmol/L!

Get straight to A&E:D
 
"one size doesn't fit all". Great point.

I do not consciously feel differences in BG. My condition is also not such that the fasting level varies. But I'm intrigued that until middle age, my fasting BG was 3.3, and I felt fine. There was a 5 year period with no BG or other blood tests, and in that time 3.3 became 4.7, where it has pretty much stayed.
 
I only lose weight on 3-4mmol/l.
Of which I have very very few. To keep that level I would have to take over 200units of mixed insulin which adds weight making insulin resistance worse.
 
My fbgs since I have been testing haven't really varied that much. The lowest was 4.8, but that was just once, and the highest was 9 I think, when I was ill.
But generally they have been between 5.5 - 6.7, and the level doesn't make me feel any different.
 
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