Thank you. I did get my results online and printed them and reviewed all the data on the tests. Mostly they were pretty good - better than I expected. I'll get them out and review them for iron. Vitamin D3 - has not been optimal for a couple of years. Then I have not been completely dedicated to daily doses - but I am at the moment. They don't tend to personalise that here - now it seems to be up to the patient but without the backup of regular testing and any advice.
I think she finds it hard to believe the results which I attribute to my carb restriction and steady weight loss. It doesn't seem possible for her to reconcile the, " On these readings. you would not be diabetic - although that one puts you into pre-diabetic." with the HbA1c score. Its possible she has not seen anything like this before. I do hope I don't have raging glucose over night - but then I can test for that myself if I need to. At this point just slowly gaining a bit of confidence in both how and when to test and what results mean.
She can't get over small rises after meals. It varies. Sometimes 0.5 or 1.00 or no higher than 1.5. Occasionally it is lower.
Today it was interesting to see the reading at the end of my IF. It was higher than the getting up one. That caused a bit of panic until I re-checked Fung and decided it was probably due to the liver releasing glucose until I had a late lunch. Post lunch it was 1.0 lower.
What do you do if you wake up early; say just before 6 am and then go back to sleep. I have tended to wait until I got up and washed my hands before testing. Should I try out testing at that early waking time?
Yes you are right about continual monitoring. I have thought about it or trying it for a month or so. I may well do so in the future.
I haven't tested my fasting in a while, but I do know my liver will dump, dump, and dump some more until I finally eat, usually. Some of us are lucky like that. I've even seen a seven pop up after fasting into the afternoon. You could just have breakfast and skip lunch instead. Or have a tiny little portion of something or other so your liver knows to knock it off. If you have a little alcohol swab handy on the nightstand you don't have to go to wash your hands.
For me, my liver starts dumping when i wake. And yeah, that can be at 3 at night. Just test whenever you want to, or to get it to overcomplete. Better too much than too little when there's question marks eh.
As for your suspicions about nights, do you sleep alright? Like I said, I start dumping when I wake, even if that's at 3 a.m., when I just need a quick visit to the loo. Sometimes I wake up at 4 and don't bother going back to sleep because the alarm goes at 5:15 anyway. (Might as well read!
). All in all though that means I have a lot of interrupted sleep. Is the same true for you? Also, nightmares or sleep apnea can make your sleep unrestful... Resulting in higher numbers. So could be anything, really. A CGM would bring some clarity there, I do think. But just experiment.... And buy an extra box of test strips. There'll be a lot of them to go through, but you might see a pattern!
