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Blood sugar levels

Lily 2

Lily 2

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
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Other
Hi another question
After my poorly stint and blood sugars around 8.8 I am back to normal for me this is anything between 4.2 pre meal and 7 post meal, but I feel I’m becoming a bit obsessed with my numbers, my pre meal will be 5.5 and my post meal 6.6 and I feel disappointed because it’s not back in the 5s is this normal? I’m newly diagnosed so I know this will probably calm down I just worry if I drift out of the 5 range. I even get worried in the low 4s. I worry I’m being a bit obsessed with numbers ( well my family are ) but I assumed it was all about achieving the lower numbers or am I wrong.
 
There is absolutely nothing wrong with your numbers. You are very newly diagnosed but still manage the 4 to 7 target, which is excellent. You should be delighted. Some people do try to be back where they started after 2 hours, but so much depends on your body and the contents of the meal. It is rare for me to be back where I started at 2 hours, but I am back by 2 and a half hours, so that satisfies me. Well done on your progress, you are doing extremely well.
 
Thank you, I think it’s a huge learning curve, tonight I was slightly high for me at 6.6 and it was from green beans of all things, it was the only new thing I added to that meal. I will keep at what I’m doing, I cringe to think at what my blood sugars would have been before I was diagnosed with all the carbs I ate. It was actually half a white bread roll that spiked me to 14 and a random check on a friends monitor that got me off to the drs, so I dread to think what my usual meals would have done, I was on slimming world so it was pasta rice and potatoes as a staple for every meal.
 
Bluetit1802 said:
Some people do try to be back where they started after 2 hours, but so much depends on your body and the contents of the meal.
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True. I am one of that type. I try to start each meal with max 5.6 and to be under 5.7 after two hours. But (as you mention) it is hard and depends on the type of meal and body activity within that two hours after meal (I walk to bring it down).
 
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