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Ok now im totally confused blood suagar madness

turvell

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Location
Birmingham UK
Type of diabetes
Treatment type
Diet only
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been type 2 and the fact i get no sodding help from the NHS at all
hi guys

christmas day i decided to just sod it and do what i want. i had a full dinner with mash and roast potatoes. then christmas pudding and custard oh and forgot before that i had a slice of bread with turkey and stuffing on it. before my dinner my blood was 4.4mmol 2 hours after it was 5mmol. i had eaten loads to. so in the afternoon evening time i decided to stuff it and had about 7 caburys roses and crisps and then tested 2 hours later again and my bloods was 5.4mmol. so i thought i would test this morning and see if it had gone wild but it was 4.9mmol. what does this mean. does it mean my accu check metre is ****? or does it mean something else?

thanks for any help here

merry christmas

steve
 
Some days it is just like that..........

Never found a satisfactory explanation for it.
 
i think it means ur lucky lol mine rocket to 14 after splash of salad cream and crumbs from a yule log ...
 
Hi Steve - wow those are good results! When do you go back to the Drs? Are you keeping a log of all your test results?

I had three small slices of xmas cake and some choccy and my bloods went up to 23! I can't get away with anything!

Hope you've had a fab x-mas.

Karen
 

Out of interest, what would you normally be expecting to see after two hours and in the mornings. Were you also consuming alcohol during the meal?
 
my usual readings in the morning are 5 or 4.4 and in the last 5 weeks they have never been above 7.5 the they only hit 7.5 two times and i have been testing before and after breakfast and before and after lunch and before and after dinner. i dont drink alcohol at all
 
Hi Steve,

It is one of those mysteries that diabetes brings. Another day you could eat a meal that you know does not raise your blood sugars usually and yet you get a high reading.
I blame it on the diabetic fairy who is very mischievous.
 
its been this way for 5 weeks it never really goes over 5.5 whatever i do
 
Yes, I have arrived at the only reasonable conclusion - what I mean is, if you take a logical approach to this you reach the conclusion that what you are measuring (blood sugar level) and what is wrong (diabetes symptoms) are not actually related to one another.
Could we be making a huge mistake here?
Pat McCann
 
i dont know i would ask my nurse or doctor but they seem to be pleased i have type 2 so i keep away from them
 
its because we are incredibly complex beings, there are a thousand and one reasons for differences in glucose levels, from what we ate when we ate it what we did afterwards how we felt emotionally etc etc... and im sure there are another thousand reasons our bodies to produce its own glucose, then you have to factor in dietary changes in newly diagnosed folks that are shocking their bodies, you have to work on averages in my opinion, look for patterns, you cant take any one day and assume thats how things will be if you eat that way
 
no i only have an accu check nano and the strips to go with it. do you mean buy another metre?
 
im just confused that i have done over 150 tests over the last 5 weeks and its never been over 6.5 mmol/l ever
 
it may be that you have given your pancreas a break due to the change in your diet and things are working better, my advice would be terrific, this is a warning and continue on your "better" diet for now and forever, i mean wheres the sense in thinking ahhh i must be cured i can go and eat whatever i like, then have high sugars again and be back to square one, keep testing and maybe ease off to a level that is healthy and keeps bloods good, i dont believe you are cured unless you are the first to ever be cured, i just think your new ways are working really well, be happy be healthy
 
Hi Andy

you are correct i mean i never asked to be tested for type 2 diabetes in the first place the doctor told me i was. and up until the day after they told me i was type 2 i was stuffing huge amounts of sugar into my face. IE chocolate and haribo etc. i had been doing this for the last 2 years. then when i was told i was type 2 i stopped it all together and started a totally healthy diet. i mean i keep testing but get the same results and my fasting results are that of a non diabetic. i find it really odd i really do. i wandered if eating high levells of sugar originally can push up my HAB1C test and give me a false result
 

On one hand it may be that your body can now cope with more glucose in your diet. On the other hand it may be that it can only handle the occasional "binge".
Only further testing would show which is the case. Congratulations on such excellent readings though.
 
i questioned my diagnosis at the hospital the night of dx and was told if i ate 5 cream doughnuts i would not be above 11 mmol i was 24.9 i think, so i think dx is very clear one ay or the other but im not certain
 
what is DX?
 
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