wiseowl_123
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
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You're highly unlikely to get the same identical reading on your meter when doing tests in close succession. The variations you're seeing (difference of 0.5mmol/l) is simply due to the error margin in your meter.Good morning every morning I get up wash my hands and sit down and test my FBG but there is a variation in my results,to give an example this morning first test was 5.2 ,10 minutes later 2nd test 4.7 now this happens every morning starts off in the 5's ten minutes later drops to 4's,any ideas why this is,and which reading is the true one,thank you my friends
I have identical results. Getting ready for a swim used to up my bgs by approx 2mmol/l higher. Then the stress of the swim another 1-2mmol/l it used to lower my good bgs later in the day to give a hypo.Am I right in thinking that you have just been moving around (bathroom, washing, getting dressed, etc.) just before you take that first reading?
Since I have been wearing a Freestyle Libre I have noticed a consistent and very clear rise in blood glucose immediately after getting up and moving around. Then if I sit down again, my bg goes back to its normal level within a few minutes. I can't say that I understand why it happens, but it does. Consistently.
For instance,
-if I wake up in the night and take my blood glucose, my blood glucose is (for example) 5.7. But five minutes later, after standing up, trekking to the bathroom and returning to bed, my blood glucose will be 5.9. Five minutes after that, it will have dropped to 5.7 again.
-if I have been sitting at my desk for several hours, my blood glucose is (for example) 6.2. And if I get up, make a cup of tea, go upstairs, come back to my desk and test again, my blood glucose will be 6.5, and drop down to 6.2 after a few minutes.
Don't know why it happens, but it does, over and over and over again.
So now I tend to just ignore it, and take each reading as an approx one.
Pick the lowest oneGood morning @GrantGam @catinahat @Brunneria @ickihun many thanks for your your helpful and friendly replies my friends very much appreciated,its just that I didn't want to deceive anyone including myself , I didn't know which one to post on the early morning FBG thread every day
Either meter reading will be ok, just stick to that one on postings if it would make you feel better. Middle reading would probables make more sense.Good morning @GrantGam @catinahat @Brunneria @ickihun many thanks for your your helpful and friendly replies my friends very much appreciated,its just that I didn't want to deceive anyone including myself , I didn't know which one to post on the early morning FBG thread every day
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