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<blockquote data-quote="JoKalsbeek" data-source="post: 1879005" data-attributes="member: 401801"><p>Interloper? Join the club. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> (English isn't even my first language, but the Dutch forums are generally just not... You know... Helpful. Clinging to the EatWell plate and such.) It'll be a little while before your numers come down, so this is the important bit: If your numbers, whatever they may be before eating, don't rise more than 2 mmol/l when you test again two hours later, your meal was right for you. If it goes up more, then it was too carby. And when you're just starting out, your liver thinks that high is good, because that's all it knows. So if you drop sometimes to where you want to be, it very helpfully dumps some glucose into your bloodstream, pushing the numbers back up. It's a gradual process to teach the little b*gger to do a bit less of that, but it will happen. Then it'll just be dawn phenomenon, when it very helpfully gives you a little glucose in the morning to give you the energy to start the day. Mine's still convinced that's a good idea, as for many others, so don't panic if everything's finally going right, and in the a.m. you're still hitting sixes. It's normal. </p><p></p><p>I know it feels very unnatural to jab yourself, (used to make my skin crawl and the hairs in the back of my neck stand up) but after a while you really get used to it. AND, once you know what meals spike you and which don't, you don't have to test all that often. It's just in the beginning, when you don't know what a certain meal will do to your numbers, that it's a regular thing. Some of us still test 8 times a day or so... But for me, I was paying 1000 euro's a year in test strips, as my insurance only covers 40 euro's worth of them. So now I only test when I'm experimenting with foods, or am ill, or feeling off for an unknown reason. I can go weeks without testing, and then doing 10 in a day. It kinda helps that I usually eat the same foods when I'm at home (eggs, salads, meat and veggies), so I don't have to check much: those meals already passed the tests. Literally. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> Could be the same for you.</p><p></p><p>You're on the right track here. And good on ya for using a needle!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JoKalsbeek, post: 1879005, member: 401801"] Interloper? Join the club. ;) (English isn't even my first language, but the Dutch forums are generally just not... You know... Helpful. Clinging to the EatWell plate and such.) It'll be a little while before your numers come down, so this is the important bit: If your numbers, whatever they may be before eating, don't rise more than 2 mmol/l when you test again two hours later, your meal was right for you. If it goes up more, then it was too carby. And when you're just starting out, your liver thinks that high is good, because that's all it knows. So if you drop sometimes to where you want to be, it very helpfully dumps some glucose into your bloodstream, pushing the numbers back up. It's a gradual process to teach the little b*gger to do a bit less of that, but it will happen. Then it'll just be dawn phenomenon, when it very helpfully gives you a little glucose in the morning to give you the energy to start the day. Mine's still convinced that's a good idea, as for many others, so don't panic if everything's finally going right, and in the a.m. you're still hitting sixes. It's normal. I know it feels very unnatural to jab yourself, (used to make my skin crawl and the hairs in the back of my neck stand up) but after a while you really get used to it. AND, once you know what meals spike you and which don't, you don't have to test all that often. It's just in the beginning, when you don't know what a certain meal will do to your numbers, that it's a regular thing. Some of us still test 8 times a day or so... But for me, I was paying 1000 euro's a year in test strips, as my insurance only covers 40 euro's worth of them. So now I only test when I'm experimenting with foods, or am ill, or feeling off for an unknown reason. I can go weeks without testing, and then doing 10 in a day. It kinda helps that I usually eat the same foods when I'm at home (eggs, salads, meat and veggies), so I don't have to check much: those meals already passed the tests. Literally. :) Could be the same for you. You're on the right track here. And good on ya for using a needle! [/QUOTE]
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