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hoolyuk

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Since being started on 4 x 500mg of metformin, every day i have taken a waking bg reading and the trend has been downward....6.42 avg in 1st week, 6.08 2nd week and 5.90 3rd week.

Then for no apparent reason that i can put my finger on, my waking bg was 7.2 saturday morning and 7.3 this morning....weekends previously tended to give my lowest readings too.

Perplexed :|
 
Might be the time to seriously write down a food diary. Everything you eat. Look at it and see if there is a carb load that might not be good for reducing your BGs.. Metformin will be helpful but you have to help the Metformin as well. It is not a magic wand that makes the carb go away. Perhaps you eat the same thing every Friday night and drink no alcohol or perhaps you drink the same amount every Friday? So many factors to consider. Perhaps you are just "off colour"every Saturday morning?
A food diary would be the easiest starting place I reckon.
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It could be that you have a cold or a temperature, a raise in bg can predict the start of a cold. Have you just had the flu jab? Just had mine yesterday and had no apparent side effects but I hear it can affect some people. But as Alison has said it there are many things that can affect our bg levels, I wouldnt worry too much about the odd blip as long as the overall trend is downwards towards your target level :D
 
Have turned down the flu jab as my cousin gets it and have never met a man who gets so many colds :)

I tried a food diary when i was first diagnosed, bread, milk and bananas were my worst culprits, all of which of been dramatically scaled back in my diet.

I would get a chinese take out most friday nights with no major change in blood sugars the next day, but this week i got a chicken ball supper which would have a lot of batter in it, perhaps it was that?

Will try a different feed next friday and see if that makes a difference.

This morning an hour after getting up and taking two metformin level had dropped to 5.2
 
hoolyuk said:
Have turned down the flu jab as my cousin gets it and have never met a man who gets so many colds :)
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Hey hooly ... the jab will not protect anyone from the common cold viruses that go around form time to time and the cold is not much of a threat to us diabetics. Its the various circulating strains of influenza that strike from time to time the flu jab helps protect us from and its something I am glad to be offered every year.
 
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