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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mommayorkie" data-source="post: 463580" data-attributes="member: 37348">Hi, i was diagnosed as "borderline"type 2 about 12-18months ago. possibly longer. ive lost track of time now. for the past year upto last boxing day i had managed to keep my fasting bloods down to between 3.5 and 6, mostly around the 5 mark. on diet alone and exercise when i could do it. i am 71 and have numerous conditions which stop me doing normal exercise. mine amounts to going shopping with my daughter, walking slowly and stopping to sit down frequently,or my nephew takes me out, in his car and its getting in and out of the car if/when we stop to take photos of something.or a castle where i amble around the lower parts at my own pace while he does he own thing n gets pics that i cant get to take or see. on boxing day i went down with a bad cold and as usual, being asthmatic with COPD, it went straight to my chest. so i started my rescue meds of steroids and antibiotics. i had only just stopped a previous course of steroids due to my peak flow being down to 200, as prescribed by my doc, and a few weeks before had a 4 day course after walking into a room that had been sprayed with flyspray. which inflamed my tubes. my fasting bloods have always been ok in the past (been asthmatic for years). until this last time when they shot up to 23. on the 3rd day of taking the last lot. i couldnt call my surgery as it was weekend. so stopped the steroids on the sunday and phoned the doc the day after.. nothing he could do of course though told me to cut down on carbs and eat small meals. i did this for the next couple of days but was so hungry, miserable and tearful  plus tired. i couldnt do a thing. i live alone.so have to do SOME things.so i upped my carbs a bit. n felt a bit better5. slowly the fasting bloods have been coming down . lowest  was 8.3. that was last saturday so 4 days ago. but since then theyve been back to 9.1 sunday and monday then today was 10.6. i havent eaten anything much in the way of sweet things. cake et5c. though did buy and try a couple of morrisons fruit smoothies.i only have a small wineglass full, about 150mls. after lunch.which can be a proper meal or a couple of weightwatchers bread with ham or tomato.  i have slice of melon, or 2 slices fresh pineapple,not tinned or half a large or 1 small banana after porridge or 2 slices weightwatchers bread toasted  for breakfast. . tea is usually similar sandwich as lunch. or soup with 2 slices weight watchers bread. sometimes ill have another glass of smoothie after tea or a fruit scone. though im going off those as well as cake. i have porridge for supper and if im up late, a coupleof buttered slices of weightwatchers bread. i have IBS so dare not eat too much fruit. in a day. im only just starting to reintroduce fruit to see what does upset that. this morning i wasnt happy  with my FBS so took it again just before i ate my breakfast. it had gone up slightly to 10.7.i9 don't get up til late these days around 10.30am so breakfast is about 11am. lunch around 3  tea 6-7 and supper 10pm-11.ive known this happen before and its continued to go up for the next hour yet im hungry and need to have my breakfast. why would it keep going up like that when i last ate about 12-1am? and can porridge be the culprit? i only started eating it again  just before xmas for breakfast  but not regularly , but now like it for supper instead. used to eat rice krispies but after over a year for every supper got fed up of them.plus the porridge seems to stabalise my IBS. so is it still the steroids affecting me?its now 3 weeks since i started the last course. 2 and half since i stopped them. or is it the porridge now keeping them up? i can only afford to test on waking really as i have to pay for them (wouldnt have known about the steroids effect if i hadnt been testing them but my doc and diabetic team dont encourage us to test at all. they rely simply on the 3 monthly hbA1c). For the first week after i discovered it had gone up i did test every 2 hours and was shocked as to how much it went up between meals.at that time. sorry to go on so much. i really hope someone can tell me why it keeps going  up  and can porridge make it worse? my diabetic dietician told me it was better for me than rice krispies. and it is as i say for the IBS .</blockquote>

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