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Well done!

Your graph shows an impressive improvement - clearly what you are doing is making a clear difference.
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Have you tried testing after your evening meals (2hrs after starting the meal)? That would show how much your BG is spiking after food, and may help you identify meals or particular foods thar are good, or bad for your BG levels.
 
Yes your graph looks like a pretty good start in getting control. It looks very much like the one I posted in my personal intro to this forum. I think you are doing really well and have made a great start. Well done you. Keep at it.
 
Do have other, non-charted tests, not showing on the graph? Otherwise, at what level did you asses you were in hypo? If those scores aren't included in your graph, it would be useful to add them, as you may notice trends, which could be helpful.
 
rhiuka said:
I am mainly judging hypos by the situation and a combination of how I feel (severity of symptoms) and common sense (e.g. when and what did I last eat). For some of them I did take a reading before doing anything for confirmation, and still do that if I am in doubt.

For example, the one last Friday occurred in the afternoon after a period of activity and had not eaten anything since breakfast. Although it was not an usual day and I would have normally have eaten sometime around then or a little later anyway so it was a surprise.

In contrast on Saturday night when I went to bed I started to feel shaky with palpitations. They were a little bit stronger than I would usually ignore but because I had eaten a full meal a few hours earlier I decided to wait it out for a while to see what happens, but would have then tested had they not gone away.

But as ad hoc tests they are not really chartable.

Incidentally, this morning's reading was a 5.7 and I was pleased to see it rise a bit. With a very clear downward trend I was a little worried it might continue and end up too low, so I am glad it now seems to have flattened out.
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I'm not on the meds you are, so am trying to apply logic, rather than experience to your situation, so feel free to ignore or challenge me.

I don't understand why ad hoc tests are not charable? Surely, bearing in mind you are testing because you feel unwell, they are vital to chart? And I would suggest if you feel you are having a hypo you should test to ensure that is the case. When you have a starting point of a pretty high HbA1c reading, it infers your bloods have Ben running high, regularly, for a while. When they start to come down many people have also hypos, which are hypo like symptoms, but without the ( under 4) low blood scores. Whilst that feels like a hypo, it isn't, and to an extent, in order to get out scores down, we need to ride through those, without resorting to high carb hypo treatments which will just push those blood scores back up again. Do you test again when you have treated your hypo to see where that takes your score?

Of course you must take note of how you feel and your other circumstances, but those are the feelings to back up with meter readings.

Don't get me wrong, your charted trends are nicely downwards, and the ad hoc tests may not have a material impact on that trend, but your graph isn't the full picture. Your efforts are paying off, so well done, but maybe it's time to move to the next tier of record keeping?

Finally, you have had concerns about trending too low; what advice have you had on that? I wouldn't be considering anything in the 5s as too low. In fact I like to be base lining in the 4s. If/when you get there, you may need your meds adjusting to reflect the better scores, but is important your meds support your bloods, rather than you eating yourself up to support the doses of drugs you are taking.

Feel free to challenge my logic. It may be fatally flawed.
 
I would agree with @AndBreathe (although we aren't ganging up on you, honest!)

Normal BG for a non-diabetic is comfortable in the 4s.
I aspire to have fasting BGs at that level (although my dawn phenomenon sabotages that!).
And I am familiar with both real and 'false' hypos.

The real ones are when you are under 4.
The 'false' ones are above 4 (that is a VERY rough guide since many people don't see hypos til they are well under 3).

If you are experiencing hypo symptoms I would ALWAYS test. I have no idea what your gliclazide does to BG, so better safe than sorry! And I would record those readings - as well as what/when you had been eating/doing that day.

In my experience (of a LOT) of avoidable hypos, it is usually due to one of the following:
Physical activity several hours after last food
Too many carbs at last food (fast release) and not enough protein/fat (slow release) leading to a sharp drop in BG
Stress and/or excitement
Sleep deprivation
And all are aggravated by hot weather, until you adjust to the warmer temperatures.

Once you have discovered what your particular triggers are, you can start predicting them, and snaffling a slow release food beforehand.

The ideal is to never have to treat a hypo. You head them off at the pass beforehand with something like nuts, or pate or regular food. Too many carbs can send me into a vicious cycle of too high-too fast a drop-hypo-too many carbs as a reaction. And that makes you feel really rough!

I'm sorry if that sounded like a lecture. It isn't intended to be. I just know how dreadful I feel after a hypo, so anything that prevents the problem seems like a much better idea!
 
I think most of the questions you have asked in your last post have already been answered by Andbreathe and my previous posts.

The good thing is that, as with everything, we all get to choose how we handle our own diabetes.

I hope your control continues to improve.
 
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