Newly diagnosed with very high numbers - confused by symptoms

Can you get a libre (even just one) to see what’s happening with overnight levels? There was a free trial a while ago, not sure if it’s still on or not. It’s about £50 for 2 weeks data otherwise. No prescription required and available via a pharmacy (don’t forget you are entitled to vat free as a diabetic but you might need to check with them they have deducted that).

There’s also a thing called adaptation glucose sparing aka physiological insulin resistance, that shows up as a morning stubbornness in fasting readings and misleading oral glucose tolerance tests. It’s purely a response to low carb and not pathological or harmful. It goes away within a few days of eating carbs should you ever need that test.

 

I am given to bouts of exertion - building a greenhouse by myself when the instructions call for two men and a mallet, for instance, or deciding to move the knitting machine station to another part of the house - or servicing 24 knitting machines at the University in a heatwave. Maybe that is a good thing.
It has certainly made for some happy courgettes. They seem to be the variety 'Triffid' - though the leaves do not - yet - turn towards me when I go in with water.

 

Can you provide a link to this idea please? Blood is blood, no matter what part it is taken from with a lancet.

 

I am not referring to the interstitial fluid thingy.

I notice that using more than one finger on a hand to take a repeat test isnt reliable, so i make sure I use different hands. I assume its due to the healing whatever's rushing to the broken skin on one finger, which travels down the hand.

 

But but but - I love hypothesising and reading about expected or unexpected happenings - if there are no interesting posts to read on here I might have to go and watch the Sumo highlights....

 

Happy to hear you are happy and things continue to slowly improve. It’s fine to discuss ideas and explore your conditions and your understanding, no need to apologise. If no one ever had new ideas or asked about them we’d learn little in life.

Is there something mid week that varies in that or the build up eg exercise or stress maybe? A cheat day that takes a while to get over (probably not for you but it is another potential cause for others reading this later with similar issues).

 

“Dawn” phenomenon can happen at anytime of the day. It’s usually in response to not being fed for a while and a keen liver sensing lowering levels and wanting to be helpful and bump you back up. So yes relevant to the set point more than the sun. Dawn is simply when it most commonly occurs.

Hey, at least the scales are going down even if jerkily.

 

I had the same thing with false hypos and my body just got used to the new lower level. It still happens when I get in the 4’s - when this happens if I don’t do anything I get a rise presumably from liver dump, but if it eat a really small snack it seems to trick my liver into not dumping. Just a handful of nuts or small portion of cheese does the trick for me.

Mind you, I’m very new too and no idea if this is the right thing to do or if it would help you, but it’s worked for me!

 

I do similar in the morning to halt the dawn phenomenon without causing a new rise. Anything small and non carby. Hard boiled egg works well as a grab and run.

 

That is good to read - once I was seeing numbers in the 7's things really began to get better. I think there is some significance to not breaking 8 at 2 hours after eating.

 

I agree!! Dance round the room. Lol.