Haven't measured in months and months. I've tripled.

I'm very overweight (usually 275-330 lbs, but recently, let it get up to 362 lbs, I've had success but it comes and goes, I'm at 346 lbs again on the way down), and used to measure my glucose as a precaution, and have yearly doc checks also.

Reading were between 4.5 and 6 mmo/l, depending on when I measured. Meh, but nothing to write home about.

I found my old glucometer, the test strips are well out of date, but just tried it twice, been about 90mins since I ate an honestly poor quality meal, and I get a couple readings around 20 mmo/l, about FOUR times my typical reading.

I've been locked down since March, and I struggle HUGELY with fatigue now, I fall asleep at my desk 20 times a day. I pee more and drink more, water. Eyes are a little worse too.

After those initial two readings of about 20, I ate a healthy meal devoid of sugars, and took readings 30/60/90/120 mins after eating.
14.2 mmol/L
14.7 mmol/L
14.6 mmol/L
14.3 mmol/L
Better, but still absolute ****.

Obviously, you're the internet, and I'm gonna phone my doc first thing tomorrow, but I realise this is a bad sign, can you talk to me about diabetes type 1 vs 2 likelihood?

EDIT: what prompted me to tear my old bedroom apart looking for my glucose testing kit, was the urinalysis strips I got. Everything was normal, except glucose, which was on the second to worst colour.

lucylocket61 said:

Out of date strips, in my experience, give false readings and cant be relied on. I suggest getting some fresh ones and seeing what happens.

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Have ordered some, but won't be here until Mon to Wed next week. They're about 20 months past their use by, surely they'd not be THAT amount inaccurate? I'm using second drop of blood from finger to help isolate issues to do with my skin.

MrsA2 said:

still make an appointment for doctor in the meanwhile. Their tests are better, more accurate.
Don't do what I did and wait and lose some weight first as that didnt show how bad i was and therefore to this day i dont know how far I've come

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I'm just concerned how long a proper test will take to arrange with doc/nurse. I've ordered some new strips, but those too will take until Mon/Wed next week to arrive. The 20 mmol/L reading scared me, I'm anxious about getting confirmation by doc ASAP.

OK, in preparation for a possible (but unlikely) test today, I ate a healthy no processed stuff and low carb meal yesterday (fasting afterwards), checked my readings, and they'd reduced to just over 14 mmol/L for the duration of the couple hours after the meal. Less, but still v.bad. Again, not sure how much is down to 2 year out of date strips, I suspect not that much. I've tested glucose in urine since that initial reading (strips are recently purchased), and any readings since that initial "2nd box from worst" reading, are now "2nd box from best".

Yeah, from 20 Sept 2019 to 27 June 2020, I went from 265 to 362 lbs. I know. After hovering at that weight until August, I've deliberately got that down to 345 lbs as of today.

I only got glasses a couple years ago, but in the last couple month, I've noticed my sight is worse. I'm peeing like a racehorse and drinking water lots too. I do get a bit of tingling and numbness from time to time. And the fatigue is off the charts, I'll fall asleep 20-30 times per day (but I've got apnoea also most likely - obesity brings numerous gifts).



My mum was diabetic (didn't know my father). I've got a nurse appointment for tomorrow for the test, but i'm trying to ring back as it clashes now with an essential zoom training session for work. Trying to get through to local chemist to see if they offer finger prick test.

Daibell said:

Hi. As you say you have a lot of excess weight which strongly implies you will be T2 rather than T1. Although out-of-date strips may not be accurate they probably are unless many years old and left open. You need to adopt a low-carb diet if not already doing that.

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Yup, lower carb is what I've been doing to lose it, need to focus more on that. No more sugary or carby things in the house at least, I ate them all... got everything in to make low carb bread etc too.... almond and coconut flour, xanthan gum, erythritol, flaxseed, chia/pumkin/sunflower seeds, and so on....

Doc phoned already, one day after pee/blood draw/BP test.

Says the diabetes test was slightly up, I'm to go in again for a fasting BG test on 1st Oct. Thyroid test was borderline, so another test for that in 3 months.

That call was less bad than I thought it would be. But as you say, it's still a wake up call. I even bought fresh kale, spinach and romaine lettuce after the appt, and washed, blanched, refreshed and froze it all - no more wasted veg, gimme all the cruciferous dark greens!! Just waiting on new glucometer next Mon to Wed with in-date strips. Keen to see what results that gives vs the out of date strips on the older SD Codefree model.

bulkbiker said:

I just compiled this list of friendly foods on another thread and thought it might help you too
I started at 321 pounds and now bounce around between 198 and 208 eating stuff from that list.

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impressive loss!!

also, yup, we appear to be on same page food wise, started putting together a list to check. (Note, sugar is here, only for guests.)

bulkbiker said:

Needs more meat!

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Work in progress, I normally only eat chicken/tuna/bacon before recent scare.