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<blockquote data-quote="Stephen Lewis" data-source="post: 2036832" data-attributes="member: 479176"><p>You are in the right place to get good well informed information. Do all the research including about the several types (continuum?) of our condition. My early morning glucose levels are always on the rise even (especially?) without food. This appears to be the body's built in response to waking and/or getting up. I cannot recommend too highly some form of constant glucose monitoring (CGM). I do a sensor reading just before eating and afterwards at 1 hour and 2 hours - all without sticking needles in my fingers; a process that I consider medieval and barbaric. My chosen sensor does an under skin measurement every 15 minutes and when these results are downloaded when I choose to measure I get a daily graph of all the other measurements. As my recently Dublin trained MD said, "finger pricking is a complete waste of time." It does not show how high or when the spikes occur and it does not show the latest trend in your glucose levels. I have received advice from dietitians about the different glycemic indices of different carbs. In many cases what I have been told does not come even close to matching my CGM results and I have cut supposedly OK low glycemic carbs from my diet. BUT we are all different. You need to work out what foods work best for you. I strongly suggest a low carb diet. This and going to the gym 5 times a week have enabled me to stop insulin, lose 25 lbs in weight, cut my Metformin from 2,000 mg to 1,000 mg per day and I am now showing a definite improvement in my severe and supposedly irreversible neuropathy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stephen Lewis, post: 2036832, member: 479176"] You are in the right place to get good well informed information. Do all the research including about the several types (continuum?) of our condition. My early morning glucose levels are always on the rise even (especially?) without food. This appears to be the body's built in response to waking and/or getting up. I cannot recommend too highly some form of constant glucose monitoring (CGM). I do a sensor reading just before eating and afterwards at 1 hour and 2 hours - all without sticking needles in my fingers; a process that I consider medieval and barbaric. My chosen sensor does an under skin measurement every 15 minutes and when these results are downloaded when I choose to measure I get a daily graph of all the other measurements. As my recently Dublin trained MD said, "finger pricking is a complete waste of time." It does not show how high or when the spikes occur and it does not show the latest trend in your glucose levels. I have received advice from dietitians about the different glycemic indices of different carbs. In many cases what I have been told does not come even close to matching my CGM results and I have cut supposedly OK low glycemic carbs from my diet. BUT we are all different. You need to work out what foods work best for you. I strongly suggest a low carb diet. This and going to the gym 5 times a week have enabled me to stop insulin, lose 25 lbs in weight, cut my Metformin from 2,000 mg to 1,000 mg per day and I am now showing a definite improvement in my severe and supposedly irreversible neuropathy. [/QUOTE]
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