- Messages
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
- Dislikes
- Football; anything by Kylie Minogue, Madonna, Whitney Houston, any X-Factor/BGT winner, groups like Girls Aloud etc. (you get the picture); misuse of 'your', 'you're', 'their', 'there', etc.; the use of 'of' as an auxiliary verb; Facebook and Twitter (just what the hell is all this 'hashtag' stuff?); 'celebrities'; I could go on but I'm beginning to sound grumpier than I really am.
I was diagnosed T2 about 2 years ago. I've never had a weight problem (BMI 21-23 since age 18), and have been paraplegic for 4 years. After diagnosis I stopped adding sugar to drinks and cereals (about 10-12 teaspoons a day). I take 2 x 850 mg Metformin a day. My diet for the last 20 years has generally been 'Mediterranean' with no coke type drinks. After about 3 months my fasting BG went down from somewhere between 8 and 8.3 to between 6 and 6.5 with the occasional 5.7. and, apart from the occasional expected high and unexpected low readings, my fasting BG readings have been about the 5.7-6 mark. Until about a month ago. With no change to anything it went to around 7.2-7.8. After about a week I thought I would give low-carb a try. After 3 weeks the fasting BG is still around the 7.5 mark BUT my pre-lunch and pre-bedtime readings have gone up from about 5 and 5.5 to about 6 and 6.5 (apart from once).
I understand the principle of 'liver dump' or 'dawn phenomenon'. What I don't understand is that if this happens and it affects your fasting BG what value can a fasting BG have, as you can never know when it happened and what the reading would have been before it did. A couple of days ago my BG on going to bed was 5.6 and the following morning when I got up at 7o'clock my fasting BG was 7.9. Please enlighten me if you can.
I understand the principle of 'liver dump' or 'dawn phenomenon'. What I don't understand is that if this happens and it affects your fasting BG what value can a fasting BG have, as you can never know when it happened and what the reading would have been before it did. A couple of days ago my BG on going to bed was 5.6 and the following morning when I got up at 7o'clock my fasting BG was 7.9. Please enlighten me if you can.