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Do your afternoon fasting numbers vary much?

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Caprock94

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Since diagnosis, and lowering my numbers to normal range, my late afternoon numbers are usually 85-99 mg/dl range. For the past 4 or 5 days, they have hovered around 120. Is this a concern?
 
My late afternoon numbers have always been roughly in line with my per-lunch levels taking into consideration what I ate for lunch and breakfast.
Whether yours are cause for concern depends upon why they are now higher. If it's only those that are higher, not any of your your pre-breakfast, post breakfast, pre-lunch, post-lunch, pre-dinner, post-dinner readings, then you can rule out most possible reasons for concern such as decreasing Insulin production from your Pancreas.

Have you changed your lunch/
Have you changed your medication or the timing of taking your medication?
 
ianf0ster said:
My late afternoon numbers have always been roughly in line with my per-lunch levels taking into consideration what I ate for lunch and breakfast.
Whether yours are cause for concern depends upon why they are now higher. If it's only those that are higher, not any of your your pre-breakfast, post breakfast, pre-lunch, post-lunch, pre-dinner, post-dinner readings, then you can rule out most possible reasons for concern such as decreasing Insulin production from your Pancreas.

Have you changed your lunch/
Have you changed your medication or the timing of taking your medication?
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Things have gone back to normal the last two days. So I hope that means all is well with pancreas. I don't take any meds. I had a very stressful week last week.
 
Caprock94 said:
Things have gone back to normal the last two days. So I hope that means all is well with pancreas. I don't take any meds. I had a very stressful week last week.
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Stress should not be underestimated when taking readings. The liver is very quick to inject glucose in a fight or flight sitation (nearly correspond with blood pressure increase) I also noted i get 1.5 to 2 points higher when i over excert myself. (Long walks or unusual heavier then usual manual work) having said that I am fine with the 20min brisk walk daily
 
Currently around 4.8 mmol/L with remarkable consistency. Always between 4.5-5.5 but rarely more than five.

~5.0 mmol/L (90 mg/dl) seems to be my homeostatic baseline at all times.
 
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