Type 2 Help Needed to Understand BG Readings

[Bluebell_GB]

I thought I had a handle on bg numbers but I am now very confused. I had been doing the 8 week diet and was happy with the way that my bg had responded. The end of the 8 weeks coincided with my 60th birthday so I fell off the wagon for a couple of days as can be seen by the chart below:

Last night, I had some left over chocolate after dinner and decided to finish it up and take my bg at 30 min intervals just to see what happened (a very unscientific GTT). The results are below:

Now for the confusing bit. At the end of the "GTT", my bg was 5.6 and I went to bed. This morning, 9 hours later (and 14 hours after the chocolate), my fasting bg was 7.0 and it was still 6.3 some 3 hours later when I tested just before lunch having had nothing to eat all morning. I sort of get the higher reading in the morning as a possible liver dump but why did it not drop at the same rate as it did the previous night?

Edit to add: 7.1 2 hours after lunch.

 

[AndBreathe]

I thought I had a handle on bg numbers but I am now very confused. I had been doing the 8 week diet and was happy with the way that my bg had responded. The end of the 8 weeks coincided with my 60th birthday so I fell off the wagon for a couple of days as can be seen by the chart below:
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Last night, I had some left over chocolate after dinner and decided to finish it up and take my bg at 30 min intervals just to see what happened (a very unscientific GTT). The results are below:
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Now for the confusing bit. At the end of the "GTT", my bg was 5.6 and I went to bed. This morning, 9 hours later (and 14 hours after the chocolate), my fasting bg was 7.0 and it was still 6.3 some 3 hours later when I tested just before lunch having had nothing to eat all morning. I sort of get the higher reading in the morning as a possible liver dump but why did it not drop at the same rate as it did the previous night?

Edit to add: 7.1 2 hours after lunch.

There are so many reasons why bloods react in different ways that on a one-off circumstance it isn't noteworthy or really tell you anything. Influences can be stress, lack of sleep, liver dump activity, stress, illness and I could go on.

On thing you may find though, and I did when initially diagnosed, and bringing my numbers into line, was that if I had a particularly steep rise from where my bloods had been running, I would have a similarly sharp fall. I put it like throwing a ball in the air. If it goes a long way up, then by the time it's coming back down to your hands again it will have picked up more speed than had you only thrown the ball an inch or two.

For now, I suggest you have recorded what transpired, which is good. Don't put any store by what happened, but you may want to go back and look at it again if the similar thing happens again.