Hi all - after having a stressful enough day with my optician telling me after an ophthalmoscopy that she found blots at the back of my eye and referred me for urgent look at hospital, doing my tests this evening have left me utterly confused:
My meter is the Bayer Contour USB (less than a month old as my last one met a watery end), I tested before driving home from work at around 5:25pm and was @ 6.2, happy enough with this. When I went to do my pre-dinner test an hour later I was at 9.0, despite only having a latté on the way home (would warm milk normally do this?), however the fun only started when I thought to check again before transfixing myself. The results were as follows:
17:26 - 6.2 (went for a drive and had a latté)
18:43 - 9.0 (thought high so I'll check again)
18:45 - 7.9 (confused now)
18:47 - 9.2 (even more confused but I'll persevere)
18:48 - 9.3 (thought the 7.9 must have been a blip)
18:51 - 7.0 (control test - perfectly normal)
18:52 - 10.4 (***?)
18:53 - 8.4 (*** ***?)
18:54 - 9.7 (gave up so stabbed myself and went and had dinner)
If anyone can give an explanation for this 'pattern' (or lack of) I would be most grateful. A couple of questions:
(1) What is the margin of error in these machines, I would have assumed 0.1 - 0.3 but obviously not
(2) Can the BG levels really jump about like that in such short timeframes?
(3) The control test was spot bang in the middle of the normal range - could my meter be faulty?
(4) Would my latté really have put my BG up by 3?
I have probably bored you by now so any thoughts welcome.
/TJ
My meter is the Bayer Contour USB (less than a month old as my last one met a watery end), I tested before driving home from work at around 5:25pm and was @ 6.2, happy enough with this. When I went to do my pre-dinner test an hour later I was at 9.0, despite only having a latté on the way home (would warm milk normally do this?), however the fun only started when I thought to check again before transfixing myself. The results were as follows:
17:26 - 6.2 (went for a drive and had a latté)
18:43 - 9.0 (thought high so I'll check again)
18:45 - 7.9 (confused now)
18:47 - 9.2 (even more confused but I'll persevere)
18:48 - 9.3 (thought the 7.9 must have been a blip)
18:51 - 7.0 (control test - perfectly normal)
18:52 - 10.4 (***?)
18:53 - 8.4 (*** ***?)
18:54 - 9.7 (gave up so stabbed myself and went and had dinner)
If anyone can give an explanation for this 'pattern' (or lack of) I would be most grateful. A couple of questions:
(1) What is the margin of error in these machines, I would have assumed 0.1 - 0.3 but obviously not
(2) Can the BG levels really jump about like that in such short timeframes?
(3) The control test was spot bang in the middle of the normal range - could my meter be faulty?
(4) Would my latté really have put my BG up by 3?
I have probably bored you by now so any thoughts welcome.
/TJ