anteater2012
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Hi All,
Glad I found this forum as it has helped me in so many ways. I got diagnosed here in Ireland in March this year and sent off from the docs with a meter,2x500mg metforin and instructions to "eat less sugar". Not the most helpful instruction. Having read out the local library as well endless hours trawling the website I have learnt a huge amount and made appropriate changes to diet (which was not bad to begin with) and am taking more exercise. A visit back to the docs 4 weeks later had me adding 1x30mg diamicron to the meds as I was running a daily average of 9.7.(I sort of worked out the doc would increase a med somewhere based on that number).
I am tracking my numbers via the meter and I can get a bit obsessed by numbers sometimes. I am also here in Ireland by myself, know no-one and visits to the docs cost me €50-60 a time.
Anyway at the moment my numbers throughout the day are generally 6s and 7s although sometimes I will have reading as high as a 9 or 11 and as low as 4. I have tried to correlate why the high numbers appear I.e food/time of day but not yet established anything conclusive. I am taking about 4-5 readings to help me establish which foods' but test strips here are incredibly expensive. Had a chemist try to charge me £38 for a pot of 50!
I also know it is the hb1ac that also counts and the two readings I have had show that the BG appears to be going down (102 >82 ifcc or 15.7mmol > 9.7 mmol- this last reading ties in with the meter.)
Anyway my daily average now, despite the high spike, is running about 7.3 is this OK? It seems to be within the Nice guidelines mentioned in Daisy's Welcome Post. I get very obsessed with numbers sometimes and loose sight of the bigger picture!
Thank you for taking the time to read and any input would be appreciated.
Kind regards,
AntEater
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Glad I found this forum as it has helped me in so many ways. I got diagnosed here in Ireland in March this year and sent off from the docs with a meter,2x500mg metforin and instructions to "eat less sugar". Not the most helpful instruction. Having read out the local library as well endless hours trawling the website I have learnt a huge amount and made appropriate changes to diet (which was not bad to begin with) and am taking more exercise. A visit back to the docs 4 weeks later had me adding 1x30mg diamicron to the meds as I was running a daily average of 9.7.(I sort of worked out the doc would increase a med somewhere based on that number).
I am tracking my numbers via the meter and I can get a bit obsessed by numbers sometimes. I am also here in Ireland by myself, know no-one and visits to the docs cost me €50-60 a time.
Anyway at the moment my numbers throughout the day are generally 6s and 7s although sometimes I will have reading as high as a 9 or 11 and as low as 4. I have tried to correlate why the high numbers appear I.e food/time of day but not yet established anything conclusive. I am taking about 4-5 readings to help me establish which foods' but test strips here are incredibly expensive. Had a chemist try to charge me £38 for a pot of 50!
I also know it is the hb1ac that also counts and the two readings I have had show that the BG appears to be going down (102 >82 ifcc or 15.7mmol > 9.7 mmol- this last reading ties in with the meter.)
Anyway my daily average now, despite the high spike, is running about 7.3 is this OK? It seems to be within the Nice guidelines mentioned in Daisy's Welcome Post. I get very obsessed with numbers sometimes and loose sight of the bigger picture!
Thank you for taking the time to read and any input would be appreciated.
Kind regards,
AntEater
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