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Liver Dump!!!!

She22

She22

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Type of diabetes
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Took my blood on waking 6.9 got ready for work and took blood before breakfast 7.6!!!!!! What a difference!
 
She22 said:
Took my blood on waking 6.9 got ready for work and took blood before breakfast 7.6!!!!!! What a difference!
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Looks consistent to me. Allowing for a slight discrepancy with the actual meter.
 
maria111979 said:
whats the exact reason for rise without any new food intake?
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There isn't that much between 6.9 & 7.6mmol. It could just be the meter's interpretation of the BS reading..? Discrepancies don't just happen across seperate meters on a single sample. The same unit can vary a little too..
In this case the usual morning routine before work.. Which may have involed a hot beverage (or two.) with milk during the session?

Just an idea!? :)
 
meters are said to be 95% accurate and the above difference is too big to be within the error limits of meter.
 
.... There's still the idea about the milk in the tea/coffee.
 
Meters have an allowable margin of error of 15%. Your two readings taken separately that are less than 15% apart are therefore not considered to be significantly different.

In addition, simply the act of getting up and moving around on an empty stomach usually causes glucagon to be released to cause the liver to create glucose to provide fuel.

Both of these are possible, but 6.9 to 7.6 is not significantly different enough to put down to anything other than being within the expected deviation of the reader.

There is also the basic tenet that two samples of blood are very unlikely to have the same glucose content (blood isn't homogenous after all) so it is likely to be natural variation.
 
maria111979 said:
Quite strange. Where did the extra glucose come from?
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From your liver giving you a helping hand to get you started in the morning energy wise.

I get a slight rise in the morning if I don't eat fairly quickly after waking. If I don't eat and do even lightish exercise of any sort then I can get a much larger dump.

Robbity
 
tim2000s said:
Meters have an allowable margin of error of 15%. Your two readings taken separately that are less than 15% apart are therefore not considered to be significantly different.

In addition, simply the act of getting up and moving around on an empty stomach usually causes glucagon to be released to cause the liver to create glucose to provide fuel.

Both of these are possible, but 6.9 to 7.6 is not significantly different enough to put down to anything other than being within the expected deviation of the reader.

There is also the basic tenet that two samples of blood are very unlikely to have the same glucose content (blood isn't homogenous after all) so it is likely to be natural variation.
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Thanks very well explained.
 
Is the liver dumping glucose one of the reasons why a type 1 needs a background insulin?
 
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