SaskiaKC
Expert
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
3.8 this afternoon after a too-long nap. FBG this morning was 6.4, which is fairly normal for me. Then I ate a horrible breakfast of coffee, sausage, and two thin slices of loaf cake. Then I lay down to read and fell asleep and woke to 3.8. So I tested again. 4.3.
I have a friend who likes to stay around 4 throughout the day so I wasn't really worried, just enough so to drink some cranberry juice. That got me a 3.7. I've never tested my BG after a nap, but I usually don't take 3-4 hour naps in the middle of the day. I felt fine, just wondered why my BG was so low. So I ate another bite of cake and drank a little milk to bring it up, and an hour later I tested at 9.1.
I don't know what lesson I just learned here, except of course not to buy any more loaf cake just because it's a holiday! I decided to skip the low-carb pizza experiment for Thanksgiving dinner and just eat an Atkins beef and broccoli meal.
I have a friend who likes to stay around 4 throughout the day so I wasn't really worried, just enough so to drink some cranberry juice. That got me a 3.7. I've never tested my BG after a nap, but I usually don't take 3-4 hour naps in the middle of the day. I felt fine, just wondered why my BG was so low. So I ate another bite of cake and drank a little milk to bring it up, and an hour later I tested at 9.1.
I don't know what lesson I just learned here, except of course not to buy any more loaf cake just because it's a holiday! I decided to skip the low-carb pizza experiment for Thanksgiving dinner and just eat an Atkins beef and broccoli meal.