Blood glucose too low ?

• If your A1c is between 4.8% and 5.4% your risk is beginning to rise.
  
  Cut down on how much starch and sugar you eat. Just eliminating junk carbs will probably normalize your blood sugar. Think twice before you eat bread, potatoes, baked goods, pasta and sugary drinks of all kinds. You are probably eating a hundred grams of junk carbohydrate a day. Cut them out and you should see dramatic improvements in your blood sugar--and cardiovascular--health.
  
  
• If your A1c is between 5.4% and 6.0% your cardiac risk is becoming significant.
  
  Though your doctor might tell you these are normal readings, the evidence you read above suggests they arent. So take this as a wake-up call.
  
  With an A1c over 5.4% it is likely that your post-meal blood sugars are in the so-called prediabetic range that is associated with increased heart attack risk.
  
  

Adam63 said:

Has anyone heard of this research? Or is it merely some nameless committee laying down guidelines,
which we poor diabetics have then to live with.

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Beshlie said:

I haven't been able to have my A1c checked for over a year as I've been housebound with something else and am waiting for a colostomy op. But after losing 5 stones (70lbs) through controlling sugar and carbs I am diet controlled and my BS is usually in the 4s or 5s and 6s and 7s 2 hours after eating. I was on metformin but they upset my stomach so much I had to leave them off. I keep my BS in the non diabetic range.
I didn't realise our BS could be too low with type 2, so must read up on that but for me I don't consider in the 4s and 5s too low before eating.? Once or twice it was in the 3s and felt dizzy until I ate something. Maybe I'm wrong, I'm not sure now.

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