New diagnosis questions

A glucose level of 11.1 mmol/L or more in the blood sample taken after two hours indicates that you have diabetes. The answer to your question is 20 mmol/ glucose per litre of blood. The 'normal' sugar level ideally should be around 4-8ish. Sugar levels at 20 will make you very tired. Not sure what you mean by 100's but USA sugar readings are different to UK. For instance 20 in UK is 360 in USA. My sugar levels vary between 3-33. Prolonged high sugar will result in neuropathy (starts by tingling in big toe, spreading to losing feeling in whole foot) so try to keep sugar level as low as possible.

Hiya Lemonie, if you cut back hard on your sugar and carbs it will definitely help bring your bg levels down, a fasting level of 20mmol/L is pretty high and would almost certainly be making you feel very tired, I had been falling asleep every afternoon for weeks prior to my diabetes diagnosis, once my bg levels were brought down my energy returned

Hi lemonie
In the UK we measure blood glucose in millimoles per litre[mmol/L] in the US and many other countries, they use milligrams per decilitre[mg/dL] the conversion factor is 18 that's because a mole of glucose weighs 18 grams. Hence 20mmol/L is 360mg/dL in other words VERY HIGH. NORMAl is about 5mmol/L or 180mg/dL
Hana

Whilst you havnt mentioned what your diet is or what you have been doing with it as Sid said you are very likely to see a good reduction in bg levels by starting to eat less carbs especially the refined variety (e.g. bread, rice, pasta, cakes, pastry) and increasing amounts of 'colourful' veg particulary the green leafy type. You shouldnt need to starve yourself completely of everything but go for wholegrain bread, wholewheat pasta, brown rice etc but perhaps in much smaller portions than before. Its a bit easier, I think, if you like making your own meals but otherwise you'll have to carefully check packaging for the carbs in ready meals from the supermarket.

Do it gradually & try to get a bg meter & test to see what sort of foods give the best results for you. Good results should be immediate but you will need to keep it up otherwise its back to square one!
Collins gem do a very useful Carb Counter pocketbook for £3.99 listing all types of foods and products.

Lemonie said:

Hiya

I've been trying with my diet but am obviously not doing the right thing. If I cut out most of my carbs and sugar for a few days would that bring it down a bit?

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