Im confused...

[Isn]

Hi all

So i know the details behind false hypo. But what about false hyper? Is there such a thing? I am going low carb and high fat. And feel sick at times and feel as if my levels are high. Last night i checked and it was 13 and 40 mins later it was 7.

 

[forge]

It is probably a contaminated sample site causing a high sample or could even be a faulty strip. When I get an odd one like that I usually take another sample from another clean site.

 

[Bluetit1802]

Yes, if you get a very unexpected reading, whether high or low, you should re-test. We all get rogue readings.

 

[jim1951]

Yes, if you get a very unexpected reading, whether high or low, you should re-test. We all get rogue readings.

I had a rogue reading a few evenings ago, tested straight away again and it was normal.

What annoyed me was that my meter calculates 7 day average through to 90 day average and now all my average readings have been pushed up artificially

jim

 

[douglas99]

I had a rogue reading a few evenings ago, tested straight away again and it was normal.

What annoyed me was that my meter calculates 7 day average through to 90 day average and now all my average readings have been pushed up artificially

jim

Who else uses your meter readings?

 

[jim1951]

Who else uses your meter readings?

The diabetic nurse will look at it but that is more than 90 days away, so it will have worked its way through.

It is just that were as I watched the averages falling bit by bit, I now have silly numbers.

Yes of course I can work it out manually, just a bit of a pain.

jim

 

[Bluetit1802]

I had a rogue reading a few evenings ago, tested straight away again and it was normal.

What annoyed me was that my meter calculates 7 day average through to 90 day average and now all my average readings have been pushed up artificially

jim

Which is why I record all mine on a spread sheet (which also averages them for me). I never look at my meter averages.

 

[douglas99]

I don't look at my averages at all. If the number is good, I'm good, If it's higher than I like, I find out what happened. My nurse doesn't check, she knows what I'm doing, looks at my HbA1c, and lets me carry on.

 

[jim1951]

Which is why I record all mine on a spread sheet (which also averages them for me). I never look at my meter averages.

Yes, I record mine on Excel together with significant food details.

However, I am on hols for the next 3 weeks and wont be near my laptop. It would have been nice to have seen what my change in diet was doing to my averages on the meter.

jim

 

[jim1951]

I don't look at my averages at all. If the number is good, I'm good, If it's higher than I like, I find out what happened. My nurse doesn't check, she knows what I'm doing, looks at my HbA1c, and lets me carry on.

I am still in the relatively early stages of bringing my numbers down. So whilst individual readings are important to me, so is my average, just to make sure that I am on a good trend.

jim

 

[Bluetit1802]

Yes, I record mine on Excel together with significant food details.

However, I am on hols for the next 3 weeks and wont be near my laptop. It would have been nice to have seen what my change in diet was doing to my averages on the meter.

jim

Do what I do on holiday - record them in a notebook at the end of each day.

 

[jim1951]

Do what I do on holiday - record them in a notebook at the end of each day.

No need to as the meter holds 1000 records with date/time.

jim

 

[Ruth B]

I don't worry about the averages except when comparing like with like. I always feel that unless I take the readings at set intervals (say every 2 hours day and night) the averages won't be accurate unless I work out the increase of decrease over the number of hours between reading and work out what the reading would be for each hour. I don't know if meters actually work out the average in this way or just average the reading in general.

So I just tend to do graphs to compare my fasting, pre evening meal, post evening meal and bedtime reading so I can keep comparing those with previous similar readings.

 

[Bluetit1802]

I don't worry about the averages except when comparing like with like. I always feel that unless I take the readings at set intervals (say every 2 hours day and night) the averages won't be accurate unless I work out the increase of decrease over the number of hours between reading and work out what the reading would be for each hour. I don't know if meters actually work out the average in this way or just average the reading in general.

So I just tend to do graphs to compare my fasting, pre evening meal, post evening meal and bedtime reading so I can keep comparing those with previous similar readings.

I do the graphs of each thing like you do, but I also average each thing separately, so I know for example my fasting average, pre-lunch average etc. I don't suppose it matters how we do it as long as we can spot trends, upwards or downwards.

 

[Ruth B]

Excel is a wonderful tool for things like this, and shows pretty graphs as well.