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Anyone else get utterly bizarre readings? On Sunday I had hotpot with three white barmcakes, took 6 units of rapid and had a final reading of 7.3. However, yesterday I had exactly the same food, even from the same sized container, took 7 units and my reading was 10.3 - go figure? Needless to say I was pretty annoyed and utterly confused. Still, nothing I could do, so move on to this morning and start again.
 
Yes, Rick. I think bizarre readings gets us all sometimesand there seems to be no explanation. As ever, we are all different at different times. Our state of health, diet, alcohol consumption, sleep/rest, age, exercise and disposition towards the likes of diabetes varies all the time. Testing is never accurate but only regular testing gives us an idea of roughly where we are at, or more precisely where our bs levels are at. This will take time.

Recently my own fasting tests seemed to be increasing (I'm type 2)reaching a rather high and unacceptable (to me) level. Before going to my diabetic nurse I did a 12 hour fast and my level rocketed. Three different monitors gave three different results, but they were all in the same area and I didn't like them.

If your bs levels fluctuate on a daily basis, say for a period of a month, then I think you should talk to your doctor.

Good luck

Russ
 
Thanks for the reply russ, and it's good advice for anyone having problems, I just wanted to rant; my blood sugar's usually very good and I've been type 1 diabetic for 4 years but after a few days of variable readings I was getting frustrated. It's all good again now, as I assumed it would be, but I was just wondering if this particular type of ridiculousness happens to everyone?
 
Yes, i think it does happen to everyone, except those low carbohydraters!

When I started carb counting, I was told to have the same number of carbs for each meal (40g for breakfast, 40g for lunch and 60-80 for my tea - worked out as what I usually ate).

I even went to the extreme (extreme for me) as having the EXACT same breakfast every day (2 slices of wharburtons seeded batch loaf, toasted with butter) - took the SAME insulin, plus any correction dose I needed, NEVER had the same glucose reading twice, now I am less stressed about it, but it really did puzzle me for a while.

I also have this utterly bizarre post breakfast thing of my BS going up to 20 2 hours post meal, then going down to 5 pre-lunch, I don't eat anything between breakfast and lunch, but I have this consistent spike! Don't know what that's all about! Stress probably as the morning is my most stressful time at work, look at me rambling on, sorry about that!
 
Lesley, I don't think that's extreme, I've pretty much had exactly the same breakfast and lunch for over four years; plus, I have a pretty set number of evening meals too and I'm sure that it's helped keep my hba1c numbers below 6 for that whole time.
 
Lesley said

"I also have this utterly bizarre post breakfast thing of my BS going up to 20 2 hours post meal, then going down to 5 pre-lunch, I don't eat anything between breakfast and lunch, but I have this consistent spike! Don't know what that's all about! Stress probably as the morning is my most stressful time at work, look at me rambling on, sorry about that!"

I also have odd things going on post breakfast. Blood glucose is usually somewhere between 4 and 5 pre breakfast and I always eat the same thing so same amount novorapid. But levels can be anything between 2.1 and 15 or even higher mid morning. There is No pattern to it and my activity level seems to make no difference either.
 
If that's happening but your dosages of novorapid are otherwise fine, then you need to look at adjusting your basal.

If you are going up a HUGE amount after eating, then you need more novorapid - what you're shooting isn't working. But then if you drop a LOT before your next meal, it would indicate to me that you've got too much basal going on.

When do you take your basal?

LJ
 
Just a thought...I read (on here I think it was!) that injecting insulin into different parts of your body can have an effect on how quickly it works...could it be this do you think?
 
Just goes to show how inaccurate carb counting is- there is so much more to dose decision making than thinking one has had 2 cups worth of rice etc etc. I suppose we find what works for us individually.

Marty B
 
Hi,

I had the same problem with the post breakfast readings and coldn't work out what the problem was until I changed my injection site. I now inject into my stomach every morning and this has pretty much solved the problem (except the odd hiccup). The only problem is that this has now shifted the problem to my post-lunch sugars. A problem which I am still trying to fix ...
 
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<br />Lesley said

"I also have this utterly bizarre post breakfast thing of my BS going up to 20 2 hours post meal, then going down to 5 pre-lunch, I don't eat anything between breakfast and lunch, but I have this consistent spike! Don't know what that's all about! Stress probably as the morning is my most stressful time at work, look at me rambling on, sorry about that!"

I also have odd things going on post breakfast. Blood glucose is usually somewhere between 4 and 5 pre breakfast and I always eat the same thing so same amount novorapid. But levels can be anything between 2.1 and 15 or even higher mid morning. There is No pattern to it and my activity level seems to make no difference either.

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Why test 2 hours post breakfast? Body still dealing with the food. Are lunch time blood sugars back down to normal?? Sounds like a problem with long acting insulin to me!!
 
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