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Do I have good control or not??

hallii said:
Jibba Jabba said:
Hi

I can manage bran flakes of a morning (or so I thought :cry: )and test around 4.4 (fasting), which goes up to 5's or 6's (sometimes 4+) 2 hours after. After reading the advice on this forum I decided to test an hour after to see if I am spiking on the hour and had a reading of 9.4, which went down to 4.8 2 hours after. Am I basically in control do you think or would it be better to reduce my amount of bran flakes to see if I can get me levels down after an hour?

Julie
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I would agree with Jilly, from the figures you quote I would call that good control.

Remember we all vary, and we are diabetic, so you cannot always expect perfect results, we can only do the very best we can. It would not make sense (to me) to strive for the unatainable at the expense of a reasonable quality of life, and after 8 years of diet control I opted for a low dose Metformin, this allows me a little more freedom but I still have to watch the carbs.

Some T2s can manage to get to "normal" levels of BG by diet and excercise alone.
Others cannot, so what is good for one may not be good for someone else.

Morning BG figures are, for many T2s, always higher in the mornings, this is due to your body dumping some glucose ( under hormonal control) into your blood to get you awake and ready for the day, but from your fasting figure it looks like you may not get this effect.

My figures are much the same, and I regard them as good (for me), my HbA1c about a month ago was 5.2 so yours should be in the same ball park, your Doc. will be happy with that.

I find bran flakes and most other cereals will give me a spike, and 9 after an hour is not that bad if it is coming down. You could try eating two smaller portions spaced one hour apart, that might help.
I just avoid cereals full stop. I make my own (lowish carb) bread and tend to eat eggs and protein for breakfast.

Cabbage, onions, swede and many other vegetables contain plenty of fibre and they do not have added sugar, as do bran flakes.

Actually there is one cereal I can eat, mueslii, a small portion with soya milk does not cause me any problems, Jordan's is a good one.

Fight on!

H
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Thank you Hallil for your encouraging words and I will, as you say, fight on :D



Julie
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Just a quick update, after the drinking chocolate BG went up to 4.7 after 15 mins, 4.7 again after 1/2 hour and 5.2 after an hour so it looks like it is levelling out. Just grabbing some lunch (ceasar salad) and I will test in another hour.

Thanks for your help everone, I feel much calmer now :D

Julie
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Jibba Jabba said:
Just a quick update, after the drinking chocolate BG went up to 4.7 after 15 mins, 4.7 again after 1/2 hour and 5.2 after an hour so it looks like it is levelling out. Just grabbing some lunch (ceasar salad) and I will test in another hour.

Thanks for your help everone, I feel much calmer now :D

Julie
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Hi Julie, I've wrote in your '3.9 thread' that perhaps tomorrow you could try increasing your bowl of porridge from 20g to 30g instead, its only another 6g of carbs extra and may be enough to stop your bg dropping.

Nigel
 
cugila said:
That sounds good Julie. Keep an eye on things but as you are having a meal it should all settle down.

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Thanks Cugila, I will keep a good eye on it for the rest of the day and hopefully it will settle back down. :D

Nigel: I have replied to you in my other post :)

Julie
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