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<blockquote data-quote="finzi1966" data-source="post: 2481455" data-attributes="member: 548675"><p>I think what you’ve just said there is exactly right. On those figures there’s no way that you have diabetes. Your blood sugars are excellent. There are absolutely *not* “large fluctuations - they’re the opposite of that, really - textbook-perfect numbers, that barely fluctuate at all. So I think your feelings of heart pounding and shaking are more likely due to something else (the POTS?).</p><p></p><p>I promise that going from 4.1 to 6.7 half an hour after eating oats is not in any way a spike. Neither is a 6.5 after lunch. I am so jealous of your numbers I can’t even tell you!</p><p></p><p>So no, not large fluctuations, barely any meaningful fluctuation at all. If you look at the graphs of some Type 1 diabetics on insulin, you would see what a large fluctuation really was. I’ve seen graphs going from 3.1 to 18 to 26 to 4 in the space of an hour. </p><p></p><p>For me, I consider myself a *reasonably* well controlled Type 2, on medication but not on insulin. As a rule, I’ll tend to be about 6 on waking, 8 by the time I’ve got dressed, staying around 8.5 until about 11am (I suffer like many Type 2’s from “dawn phenomenon”), then dropping to 6 or 7. Meal times I’ll very predictably peak about 45-90 minutes after eating (if its a low carb meal, it will probably rise by no more than 2.5mmol. If it was oats or bread, much much higher). Its usually back to where it was after two hours (in fact generally its lower than pre-meal, because cooking tends to raise my blood sugar, so it’s always a bit higher than typical before meals!).</p><p></p><p>Your numbers are an example of a perfection that most Type 2’s would kill for!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="finzi1966, post: 2481455, member: 548675"] I think what you’ve just said there is exactly right. On those figures there’s no way that you have diabetes. Your blood sugars are excellent. There are absolutely *not* “large fluctuations - they’re the opposite of that, really - textbook-perfect numbers, that barely fluctuate at all. So I think your feelings of heart pounding and shaking are more likely due to something else (the POTS?). I promise that going from 4.1 to 6.7 half an hour after eating oats is not in any way a spike. Neither is a 6.5 after lunch. I am so jealous of your numbers I can’t even tell you! So no, not large fluctuations, barely any meaningful fluctuation at all. If you look at the graphs of some Type 1 diabetics on insulin, you would see what a large fluctuation really was. I’ve seen graphs going from 3.1 to 18 to 26 to 4 in the space of an hour. For me, I consider myself a *reasonably* well controlled Type 2, on medication but not on insulin. As a rule, I’ll tend to be about 6 on waking, 8 by the time I’ve got dressed, staying around 8.5 until about 11am (I suffer like many Type 2’s from “dawn phenomenon”), then dropping to 6 or 7. Meal times I’ll very predictably peak about 45-90 minutes after eating (if its a low carb meal, it will probably rise by no more than 2.5mmol. If it was oats or bread, much much higher). Its usually back to where it was after two hours (in fact generally its lower than pre-meal, because cooking tends to raise my blood sugar, so it’s always a bit higher than typical before meals!). Your numbers are an example of a perfection that most Type 2’s would kill for! [/QUOTE]
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