Grazer
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I'd be grateful if anyone could help with the following.
I noticed a couple of posts where people spoke of doing they're fasting sugars "first thing on getting up", on the basis that sugar levels rise as you start getting dressed etc. So I thought I'd check this.
Normally, I get up, shave, shower etc, get dressed, go downstairs and then test if I'm doing a fasting test.
So twice recently I tested as soon as I got out of bed and then again later in the normal way downstairs. Each time, my bs had gone up by 0.5 on the later test, from 6.0 to 6.5, and from 6.4 to 6.9 the second time. So two questions if I may:-
1) Is this about the same for everyone? (The amount of change)
2) If so, how does this stack up if we have a fasting blood test at the doctors or the clinic? Do they allow for the fact that it would have been lower earlier? Is this allowed for in their guidelines of what fasting sugars should be for non-diabetics/well-controlled diabetics?
Your views would be appreciated
Malc
I noticed a couple of posts where people spoke of doing they're fasting sugars "first thing on getting up", on the basis that sugar levels rise as you start getting dressed etc. So I thought I'd check this.
Normally, I get up, shave, shower etc, get dressed, go downstairs and then test if I'm doing a fasting test.
So twice recently I tested as soon as I got out of bed and then again later in the normal way downstairs. Each time, my bs had gone up by 0.5 on the later test, from 6.0 to 6.5, and from 6.4 to 6.9 the second time. So two questions if I may:-
1) Is this about the same for everyone? (The amount of change)
2) If so, how does this stack up if we have a fasting blood test at the doctors or the clinic? Do they allow for the fact that it would have been lower earlier? Is this allowed for in their guidelines of what fasting sugars should be for non-diabetics/well-controlled diabetics?
Your views would be appreciated
Malc