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Did your nurse have a good reason for not testing after lunch? Lunch is a meal that contains food, so of course you need to test before you start and 2 hours later if you want to know what that meal has done to your levels, and as your levels are high at 3pm you need to try and work out why. If it isn't your food, then at least you can eliminate that and look for another reason.
 
Ziggy2017 said:
@Bluetit1802 she just said not to test after meals as it will hurt my fingers if I test too much
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Gosh, how do we trust them when they don't even understand the reason for testing? The whole point of testing, I would have thought, especially in the beginning, is to see how your body reacts to the various foods you put into it. That means you absolutely have to test after you eat. I was told 2 hours after your first bite will be peak blood sugar from the food you ate.
 
Ziggy2017 said:
@Bluetit1802 she just said not to test after meals as it will hurt my fingers if I test too much
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Goodness me, what a ridiculous thing for her to say! PLEASE ignore her.

There is a reason why people are told not to test, and this is a purely financial one. The more you test, the more strips you will need, and the more it will cost your surgery to prescribe these strips. I am not being cynical here, it is the truth. The vast majority of us Type 2s (the ones not on insulin) don't get any strips or meters prescribed. We have to buy our own.

You are sick of having high levels, so you absolutely NEED to know why you are having them so you can put matters right.
 
Ziggy2017 said:
@Bluetit1802 she just said not to test after meals as it will hurt my fingers if I test too much
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Yes, a GP said this to me too. It just shows they haven't any valid reason to give. GPs these days are a bit like puppets, they have to impose rulings and push treatments as they are ordered. As Bluetit says, T2s are no longer given meters or strips, we have to buy our own, which is expensive. In my experience, most GPs are kind and caring, it is not they who are imposing these cuts and I imagine in many cases they don't want to acknowledge even to themselves how shabbily and counter-productively T2s are being treated. So they try to come up with an argument that is in line with their wish to be kind and caring to their patients ie: "Don't test, it will make your fingers sore." A reply to this might be, "OK, I'd rather not prick my fingers, but in order to control my bg I need to know my numbers, so please can I have a Libre instead of strips?" Or even, "If I don't control my bg and end up having my feet cut off, that will hurt a whole lot more than a finger prick. (Not to mention cost the NHS infinitely more than a few strips.)"
 
Ziggy2017 said:
@Alexandra100 next time I go to see my diabetes doctor I’ll ask about a litre definitely:)
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Ziggy, you do realise, that was my joke? It would be logical for GPs to prescribe Libres to us all to save us from finger-pricking, since they are so worried about that, but it's not going to happen any time soon, alas!
 
Ziggy2017 said:
@Tippy.tosca thanks :)
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Only stating a fact.
If I'd not found this forum the day I was diagnosed last November I honestly don't know where I'd be.
I've read ge forum I've taken advice I've almost lost 3 stone by cutting down on carbs.
My blood sugar from November to now as come down considerably from 17.5 to 4.7 or there abouts my (HBALC) if spelt correctly from 87 to 52 is that good ? Should have gone down a bit more by now as I got my results back in February this year. Anyhow I think I'm doing ok.
You are welcome you all do a great job keep up the good work the advice is great. Julie
 
Alexandra100 said:
Ziggy, you do realise, that was my joke? It would be logical for GPs to prescribe Libres to us all to save us from finger-pricking, since they are so worried about that, but it's not going to happen any time soon, alas!
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No I did not realise lol I’m embarrassed now
 
Tippy.tosca said:
Only stating a fact.
If I'd not found this forum the day I was diagnosed last November I honestly don't know where I'd be.
I've read ge forum I've taken advice I've almost lost 3 stone by cutting down on carbs.
My blood sugar from November to now as come down considerably from 17.5 to 4.7 or there abouts my (HBALC) if spelt correctly from 87 to 52 is that good ? Should have gone down a bit more by now as I got my results back in February this year. Anyhow I think I'm doing ok.
You are welcome you all do a great job keep up the good work the advice is great. Julie
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Hello Julie, how well you are doing!!! You are a fantastic advertisement for the low carb diet. I don't see how anyone reading about you and many other people here with similar success stories can doubt that low carb can help them. We need that evidence to help us stand up against so many medical professionals who haven't got there yet!

Like you I used to struggle to remember the name of the hbA1c test. Each time I wanted to mention it on the Forum, I would have to look it up all over again. I had a breakthrough when I realised that the hb means haemoglobin ie the red blood cells to which the glucose attaches itself. But in any case, people often refer to the test simply as the A1c test. That makes Life easier!
 
Ziggy2017 said:
No I did not realise lol I’m embarrassed now
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You need NEVER be embarrassed on this Forum. Just ask and ask again whenever there is anything you don't understand or wonder about. I should not have assumed that you would know what a Libre is. That's because for some of us (including me) it is a red hot topic. I'm not going to try to explain about it. If you are interested, just scroll down to the section of the Forum on Blood Glucose Monitoring.
 
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