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Hi, I had some classic symptoms during the lockdown, and rather than go to the doctor I got a BG test kit and came out at 6.4 fasting.
I kinda think that I was constipated because of dehydration, so I was eating tonnes of high fibre cereal (also high carb high sugar - thanks cereal marketing depts), which was driving my BG up, which was making me more dehydrated, so extra cereal!. I was then going out and feeling a bit sick and weak, and eating sweets because I thought I was having a low calorie breakfast and needed a boost!
Over three weeks I went brutally low carb, felt great, and dragged rating down to 4.8. But in the last three days it’s rising again and is back at 5.8. Waking up feeling dehydrated.
I suppose my main question is, what is the horizon over which I should expect to take the numbers seriously? If I’m at 6.0 on low carb in three months? Or in another three days? I just don’t have a feeling for the natural variability of the results over the short term, or even what short term really is.
Any comments on this or anything else welcome.
I kinda think that I was constipated because of dehydration, so I was eating tonnes of high fibre cereal (also high carb high sugar - thanks cereal marketing depts), which was driving my BG up, which was making me more dehydrated, so extra cereal!. I was then going out and feeling a bit sick and weak, and eating sweets because I thought I was having a low calorie breakfast and needed a boost!
Over three weeks I went brutally low carb, felt great, and dragged rating down to 4.8. But in the last three days it’s rising again and is back at 5.8. Waking up feeling dehydrated.
I suppose my main question is, what is the horizon over which I should expect to take the numbers seriously? If I’m at 6.0 on low carb in three months? Or in another three days? I just don’t have a feeling for the natural variability of the results over the short term, or even what short term really is.
Any comments on this or anything else welcome.