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<blockquote data-quote="Alexandra100" data-source="post: 2174434" data-attributes="member: 429870"><p>As Bulkbiker has said, most of your results are excellent. Many writers consider that the after-meal readings are the most important, more so than fasting or A1c. Your higher morning fasting readings could be due to the "dawn phenomenon" or even the "feet on the floor" phenomenon. Presumably these readings are of short duration, otherwise they would lead to worse A1c results. To know what is really happening in the night, you would either have to wake up at eg 4am and test, or splurge about £50 on a Libre sensor, which would show you (for about 14 days) more or less exactly what goes on bg-wise while you sleep (and at all other times).</p><p></p><p>Alternatively, have you considered the timing and content of your last meal of the day? Does this make a difference to your fasting bg the next day? This is a real pain to do, but some of us eat our largest, most carby meal around lunch-time and our last meal before 6pm, or even earlier. </p><p></p><p>Finally, even if the Dr classes you as in remission, IMO everyone should check their bgs at least once a year just in case. It is said that 1 in 10 of the over 40s is diabetic or pre-diabetic and doesn't know it. So much better to find out early.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alexandra100, post: 2174434, member: 429870"] As Bulkbiker has said, most of your results are excellent. Many writers consider that the after-meal readings are the most important, more so than fasting or A1c. Your higher morning fasting readings could be due to the "dawn phenomenon" or even the "feet on the floor" phenomenon. Presumably these readings are of short duration, otherwise they would lead to worse A1c results. To know what is really happening in the night, you would either have to wake up at eg 4am and test, or splurge about £50 on a Libre sensor, which would show you (for about 14 days) more or less exactly what goes on bg-wise while you sleep (and at all other times). Alternatively, have you considered the timing and content of your last meal of the day? Does this make a difference to your fasting bg the next day? This is a real pain to do, but some of us eat our largest, most carby meal around lunch-time and our last meal before 6pm, or even earlier. Finally, even if the Dr classes you as in remission, IMO everyone should check their bgs at least once a year just in case. It is said that 1 in 10 of the over 40s is diabetic or pre-diabetic and doesn't know it. So much better to find out early. [/QUOTE]
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