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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yorksman" data-source="post: 341716" data-attributes="member: 55568">I had a test on Christmas Eve around 11.15 am at the local hospital. I chose a later time because it was my birthday the day before and I took my family out for a meal. I had a good meal but stayed away from the BBQ Spare Ribs in sticky sauce and Roast Duck in plum sauce, but had a fair amount of carbs. Just missed the sweet stuff.Before my appointment I was 8.8 and when I got home I was 8.0. The actual blood test came in at a reading of 7.6 whereas the mean of my readings would suggest 8.4. My wife works in the labs and tells me even their blood analysers have ranges and are not consistent. Having run control fluid with my meter the lower range of the control, which is 2.4 to 4.1 gave a result of 3.6, so reading above the mean of 3.2. For the upper range control, between 8.0 and 10.8, I came in at 10.2, quite a lot higher than the mean of 9.4.You should also expect sudden changes for no apparent reason. At 8am today my reading was 6.5. At 11am it was 8.2 and at 1.30pm it was 6.3. I only had water, not even coffee. It was as if my body realised that I was up and about and my liver thought I may need an extra shot of glucose to be getting on with. The important thing is am getting more 6s and more 7s and fewer 8s as time goes by. I now start to see, occasionally, a couple of 5s and on one occasion even in the 4s.</blockquote>

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