Hi everyone,
Hope you are all having a fantastic early Sunday.
To provide some context, my wife has been on a keto diet for several months now, we use to use finger prickle and then moved to Freestyle libre 2. In the beginning, we use both measurements, however after finding a significant accuracy between the both,m we decided to use only the sensor, as makes tracking much easier.
We were living abroad for few months and due to lifestyle and more daily exercise, sugar levels were pretty much below 5.5 mmol constantly throughout the day. We are now back in the UK and our daily exercise has unfortunately been reduced, bringing average sugar to around 6-6.3mmol
The sensor detected a spike in sugar (8.1mmol) last night when she took a Covonia Sugar Free cough drop around 1.5 hours after dinner. (Prior it was on 6s, with a non-carb dinner), the spike did not last more than 30 min, which makes me think the sucralose on the drops tricked her pancreas.
This morning to our surprise we got woken up by a high sugar alert of 8.2 mmol (this has never happened before, her sugar is always on the low 6 mmol. when waking up, and takes Glicazide to contr. l the morning spike) I decided to test blood on her finger and it was pretty similar 8.4 mmol.
Took Glicazide, and after 1h. sensor. still reports 8.4mmol and finger 8.0mmol (it is going down on the blood prickle and slightly. up on the sensor). Decided to make her a tea with unsweetened almond milk, as could help her pancreas to process food and stock tricking the body (if that was the case). Waiting 15 min and sensor read 6.0 mmol, which is more likely to her standards. (thinking maybe the pancreas reacted this morning to somehow the late night sugar-free cough drop and created a high spike in the morning??)
However the finger blood is reading now 10.2 mmol after the tea and 2h after Glicozide, and the Libre is reading 6 mmol.
I am very confused about the readings (libre seems more like the normal but the finger read is very high ) and makes me worried about all these weeks that we have been trusting only the reading. When I was seeing 6 mmol, could she be on her 10mmol or this might be a 1 off? What can be causing such a scenario? I will continue monitoring now both for the coming days and see if this was a 1 off, but at this time I am worried.
Her blood test is next week so we will find out more, but given she has advanced eye retinopathy, I get really worried each time I see anything above 7 mmol, even if it is a single time. Can such unusual scenarios make a big impact on her health/retinopathy issues?
Thank you in advance for your imputs
Hope you are all having a fantastic early Sunday.
To provide some context, my wife has been on a keto diet for several months now, we use to use finger prickle and then moved to Freestyle libre 2. In the beginning, we use both measurements, however after finding a significant accuracy between the both,m we decided to use only the sensor, as makes tracking much easier.
We were living abroad for few months and due to lifestyle and more daily exercise, sugar levels were pretty much below 5.5 mmol constantly throughout the day. We are now back in the UK and our daily exercise has unfortunately been reduced, bringing average sugar to around 6-6.3mmol
The sensor detected a spike in sugar (8.1mmol) last night when she took a Covonia Sugar Free cough drop around 1.5 hours after dinner. (Prior it was on 6s, with a non-carb dinner), the spike did not last more than 30 min, which makes me think the sucralose on the drops tricked her pancreas.
This morning to our surprise we got woken up by a high sugar alert of 8.2 mmol (this has never happened before, her sugar is always on the low 6 mmol. when waking up, and takes Glicazide to contr. l the morning spike) I decided to test blood on her finger and it was pretty similar 8.4 mmol.
Took Glicazide, and after 1h. sensor. still reports 8.4mmol and finger 8.0mmol (it is going down on the blood prickle and slightly. up on the sensor). Decided to make her a tea with unsweetened almond milk, as could help her pancreas to process food and stock tricking the body (if that was the case). Waiting 15 min and sensor read 6.0 mmol, which is more likely to her standards. (thinking maybe the pancreas reacted this morning to somehow the late night sugar-free cough drop and created a high spike in the morning??)
However the finger blood is reading now 10.2 mmol after the tea and 2h after Glicozide, and the Libre is reading 6 mmol.
I am very confused about the readings (libre seems more like the normal but the finger read is very high ) and makes me worried about all these weeks that we have been trusting only the reading. When I was seeing 6 mmol, could she be on her 10mmol or this might be a 1 off? What can be causing such a scenario? I will continue monitoring now both for the coming days and see if this was a 1 off, but at this time I am worried.
Her blood test is next week so we will find out more, but given she has advanced eye retinopathy, I get really worried each time I see anything above 7 mmol, even if it is a single time. Can such unusual scenarios make a big impact on her health/retinopathy issues?
Thank you in advance for your imputs