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<blockquote data-quote="BarbaraG" data-source="post: 1400868" data-attributes="member: 47277"><p>What is good or bad.... the normal range for blood glucose is 3.9-7.8 mmol/l, under 6 when fasting. The ultimate in good control of diabetes would be to reach those numbers and keep them there. But you start where you are and work on improving - to be between 6 and 8 just one week after you started is brilliant, well done.</p><p></p><p>One option - which the NHS will not pay for, you would have to fund it yourself - is the Freestyle Libre. This takes a glucose reading every 15 minutes and you can transfer the data to your computer, which automatically picks out the post-meal peaks, so long as you remember to tag when you ate. It will also produce a report which picks out the pre-meal, one hour and 2-hour values.</p><p></p><p>This has several advantages over finger pricking, quite apart from the reduced finger pricking. You can be sure you're not going to miss the peak, and some of the maths is done for you. You can also see what happens overnight, while exercising, what stress does.</p><p></p><p>Not cheap, so maybe something you only use for a short time rather than long term.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BarbaraG, post: 1400868, member: 47277"] What is good or bad.... the normal range for blood glucose is 3.9-7.8 mmol/l, under 6 when fasting. The ultimate in good control of diabetes would be to reach those numbers and keep them there. But you start where you are and work on improving - to be between 6 and 8 just one week after you started is brilliant, well done. One option - which the NHS will not pay for, you would have to fund it yourself - is the Freestyle Libre. This takes a glucose reading every 15 minutes and you can transfer the data to your computer, which automatically picks out the post-meal peaks, so long as you remember to tag when you ate. It will also produce a report which picks out the pre-meal, one hour and 2-hour values. This has several advantages over finger pricking, quite apart from the reduced finger pricking. You can be sure you're not going to miss the peak, and some of the maths is done for you. You can also see what happens overnight, while exercising, what stress does. Not cheap, so maybe something you only use for a short time rather than long term. [/QUOTE]
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