Hello All,
I know that the advice about something like this would always be - Ask your Doctor - but I am housebound - have had my Diabetes review blood tests only 2 weeks ago with a good result [45] - so no Doctors review / medication change necessary from that result.
Getting a home visit Doctors appointment is impossible from my Surgery unless you are judged to be seriously ill.
HERE IS MY SITUATION / QUESTIONS:
I was diagnosed with type 2 Diabetes in early 2022 - this was prompted by my Doctors Surgery reviewing blood test results from 2016 which showed that I was in the Pre-Diabetic range - apparently in about 2021 an NHS change in checking people who had previously been in the Pre-Diabetic range caused my Surgery to contact me and suggest that I have blood tests done to check whether I had graduated into the Diabetic range of blood glucose.
Those blood tests showed that I was well into the type 2 Diabetes range - 83 and 9.7% and I was diagnosed as such and prescribed Metformin 1g tablets.
I also drastically reduced my Carbohydrate intake and lost about 20 kilos of weight in about the next 4 months which was obviously good for my Diabetes.
I was given a Blood Glucose Home test kit and I have been using that to take daily blood glucose tests.
For the first year approximately those Home blood tests were almost all in the 4.5 - 5.5 range - and the yearly Diabetes review blood test showed 42 - a massive drop from 83 on the first test that showed that I was type 2 Diabetic.
For the next year / the last year the tests were almost all in the 5 - 5.5 range.
I had my Diabetes review blood tests carried out 14 days ago and the result was 45 - another good result although up from 42 last year - as Members will know that figure is for a different range from my Home Blood Glucose meter tests.
Here the situation that has developed in the last 16 days:
Every day for the last 16 days my Home Blood Glucose test results have been much higher than at any time during the last 2 years:
Here are the results in reverse order the first one being today: 6.2 - 6.6 - 6.6 - 6.6 - 7.2 - 5.9 - 6.4 - 6.9 -8.2 - 6.2 - 7.1 - 6.6 - 6.7 - 7.8 - 7.3 - 6.1.
I know that these are not massively high but they are much higher than the daily tests for about 2 years prior to 16 days ago when this started.
I have been eating the same meals every week for the last 2 years because after finding it quite difficult to decide on meals that I would like and were not as high in carbs as I had previously been eating I then stuck to eating the same ones every week.
I don`t drink alcohol and my sedentary / housebound lifestyle has not changed during the last 2 years.
Have any Members experienced a change / increase in blood glucose like this for seemingly no apparent reason ?
I am wondering whether to try taking a 1.5g dose of Metformin as a trial - assuming that because of the good result showing in the Diabetes review blood test 14 days ago that is what a Doctor would prescribe - I know that Members cannot suggest or agree to that on here.
Something that I noticed at various times during the last year which concerned me was that if I tested 2 hours after eating my dinner in the evening I would get perhaps a 5.2 or 5.5 result but if I then tested the next day before eating or drinking anything except for some water I could get a test result of 6.3 or 6.5 - that could be 15 hours after eating my dinner on the previous evening.
I thought that the highest my Blood glucose should be was at about 2 hours after eating - not 15 or more hours after eating ?
I would really appreciate any comments please.
My Regards,
Chris
I know that the advice about something like this would always be - Ask your Doctor - but I am housebound - have had my Diabetes review blood tests only 2 weeks ago with a good result [45] - so no Doctors review / medication change necessary from that result.
Getting a home visit Doctors appointment is impossible from my Surgery unless you are judged to be seriously ill.
HERE IS MY SITUATION / QUESTIONS:
I was diagnosed with type 2 Diabetes in early 2022 - this was prompted by my Doctors Surgery reviewing blood test results from 2016 which showed that I was in the Pre-Diabetic range - apparently in about 2021 an NHS change in checking people who had previously been in the Pre-Diabetic range caused my Surgery to contact me and suggest that I have blood tests done to check whether I had graduated into the Diabetic range of blood glucose.
Those blood tests showed that I was well into the type 2 Diabetes range - 83 and 9.7% and I was diagnosed as such and prescribed Metformin 1g tablets.
I also drastically reduced my Carbohydrate intake and lost about 20 kilos of weight in about the next 4 months which was obviously good for my Diabetes.
I was given a Blood Glucose Home test kit and I have been using that to take daily blood glucose tests.
For the first year approximately those Home blood tests were almost all in the 4.5 - 5.5 range - and the yearly Diabetes review blood test showed 42 - a massive drop from 83 on the first test that showed that I was type 2 Diabetic.
For the next year / the last year the tests were almost all in the 5 - 5.5 range.
I had my Diabetes review blood tests carried out 14 days ago and the result was 45 - another good result although up from 42 last year - as Members will know that figure is for a different range from my Home Blood Glucose meter tests.
Here the situation that has developed in the last 16 days:
Every day for the last 16 days my Home Blood Glucose test results have been much higher than at any time during the last 2 years:
Here are the results in reverse order the first one being today: 6.2 - 6.6 - 6.6 - 6.6 - 7.2 - 5.9 - 6.4 - 6.9 -8.2 - 6.2 - 7.1 - 6.6 - 6.7 - 7.8 - 7.3 - 6.1.
I know that these are not massively high but they are much higher than the daily tests for about 2 years prior to 16 days ago when this started.
I have been eating the same meals every week for the last 2 years because after finding it quite difficult to decide on meals that I would like and were not as high in carbs as I had previously been eating I then stuck to eating the same ones every week.
I don`t drink alcohol and my sedentary / housebound lifestyle has not changed during the last 2 years.
Have any Members experienced a change / increase in blood glucose like this for seemingly no apparent reason ?
I am wondering whether to try taking a 1.5g dose of Metformin as a trial - assuming that because of the good result showing in the Diabetes review blood test 14 days ago that is what a Doctor would prescribe - I know that Members cannot suggest or agree to that on here.
Something that I noticed at various times during the last year which concerned me was that if I tested 2 hours after eating my dinner in the evening I would get perhaps a 5.2 or 5.5 result but if I then tested the next day before eating or drinking anything except for some water I could get a test result of 6.3 or 6.5 - that could be 15 hours after eating my dinner on the previous evening.
I thought that the highest my Blood glucose should be was at about 2 hours after eating - not 15 or more hours after eating ?
I would really appreciate any comments please.
My Regards,
Chris
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