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OMG!!! I can hardly believe it!

rowan

rowan

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Tamar Valley, West Devon
Type of diabetes
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Tablets (oral)
I've just tested and I'm 5.6 !!!!!!!!!!! :wideyed::wideyed::wideyed:

I was so shocked I tested again in other hand to make sure there was no mistake and it was the same!!!!! :woot::D:joyful::happy::smug:

Over 30 to 5.6 in just a month, the lowest I've been up till now is 7.2, but only tested in the 7s a few times! Just got to try and keep it this low now!

Thank you to everyone who has helped me, couldn't have done it without you all :cool:
 
rowan said:
I've just tested and I'm 5.6 !!!!!!!!!!! :wideyed::wideyed::wideyed:

I was so shocked I tested again in other hand to make sure there was no mistake and it was the same!!!!! :woot::D:joyful::happy::smug:

Over 30 to 5.6 in just a month, the lowest I've been up till now is 7.2, but only tested in the 7s a few times! Just got to try and keep it this low now!

Thank you to everyone who has helped me, couldn't have done it without you all :cool:
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Thumbs up rowan, well done :)
 
rowan said:
I'm still getting the dreaded dawn phenomenom though, it was 15 this morning!
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Yeah. DP is a bummer.
After a year of very low carb my DP has not shifted. And stress, lack of sleep and being woken by foxes fighting in the street outside tends to drive it higher. :(

But give it time and a lot of ppl find that their DP gently shifts downwards, but it may take months rather than weeks...
 
rowan said:
I've just tested and I'm 5.6 !!!!!!!!!!! :wideyed::wideyed::wideyed:

I was so shocked I tested again in other hand to make sure there was no mistake and it was the same!!!!! :woot::D:joyful::happy::smug:

Over 30 to 5.6 in just a month, the lowest I've been up till now is 7.2, but only tested in the 7s a few times! Just got to try and keep it this low now!

Thank you to everyone who has helped me, couldn't have done it without you all :cool:
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Another case of .....nailed it good !! Well done rowan the collective knowledge on this forum is ace !!
 
Brunneria said:
Yeah. DP is a bummer.
After a year of very low carb my DP has not shifted. And stress, lack of sleep and being woken by foxes fighting in the street outside tends to drive it higher. :(

But give it time and a lot of ppl find that their DP gently shifts downwards, but it may take months rather than weeks...
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I'm hoping that the lower my BG gets the lower the DP will be, even though I know it will be higher than bedtime. It's between 14 and 16 every morning and it takes hours to go down. It's bound to affect my HBA1C in 3 weeks time, which is the most annoying thing. But hopefully it will be good enough to avoid the insulin my GP wanted to put me on a month ago - I TOLD her I didn't need it ;)
 
rowan said:
And my DP this morning was 10, whereas it's been between 14 and 16 fot the last couple of weeks! How strange :)
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rowan, I've documented on here several times how my bloods came into line when I got my diet (and exercise) into shape. I didn't experience a slow, downward slope on my graph, but more a level line, then notches downwards. It was almost like my body fought and fought to maintain the higher levels, then gave in, "picking" a new lower level, and restarting that exercise. I think others found this too.

If that's the case, take heart from a renewed stable state, it could just be your body getting ready to "give in" to a new lower you.

Hopefully your fasting levels will react in the same way. If you have made significant progress when you go back in a few weeks, I'm positive your HCPs will be less inclined to go down the insulin route.
 
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