Turvell, my bloods were exactly the same when I started low-carbing: normal all day but nothing could shift my 6+ morning readings. Then a new consultant questioned whether I was really T2 (apparently any T2 diagnosis with normal body weight was being re-checked) and investigated MODY. I now have a diagnosis of mitochondrial diabetes, a common feature of which is co-enzyme Q10 deficiency. I was put on coQ10 and my morning bloods miraculously became normal!
To be honest I don't know the mechanism by which coQ10 affects BS, but it worked for me. Even if you don't have weird mitochondrial diabetes, it might be worth trying coQ10 if you're on statins, as statins interfere with your body's natural production of coQ10.
Kate
Just surprised me as was 3.6 last night
So did you have a snack before bed? If not then maybe your liver dumped some glucose into your system. I often have 6s first thing and am ok with that..... Considerably better than the + 12s it used to be. You're doing great turvell !
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Just a blood test. What alerted the doctor was that I was put on statins and reacted really badly: combined with a history of diabetes and early stroke it added up to enough symptoms of a mitochondrial diabetes syndrome to start checking.
Ahh good. I'd gotten all confused again. It happens a lot to me. This is just the info I needed.Fasting Levels:
http://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes_care/blood-sugar-level-ranges.html
- Normal: 4.0 to 5.9 mmol/l (70 to 107 mg/dl)
- Prediabetes or Impaired Glucose Glycemia: 6.0 to 6.9 mmol/l (108 to 126 mg/dl)
- Diagnosis of diabetes: more than 6.9 mmol/l (126 mg/dl)
If you stick to 4s and 5s, you are in safe territory. The odd reading about 6 like your current 6.5 could be anything, including meter inaccuract, which is plus or minus 10%. In addition, if your liver has just given you a shot of extra fuel, it takes nearly 1 hour for it to be evenly spread in the blood and if it is under 30 mins, you can get high variations between fingers, because of the way blood circulates. If I ever get an unexpected reading, I test on other fingers. I can have a 6.5 in one and a 5.3 in another and a 5.5 in yet another. Testing 30 mins after that and things are more even.
Oooh now that is something I should be having. I'm getting so tired of having to eat regularly.
i have this on my yogurt and berries and it contains that stuff your talking about
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