Good numbers you got there, mine morning late 5s or mid 6s, two hours after eatign usually around 6.5. Obviously some days I loose control and eat to destruction but I need to stop that, I have gone from 105KG to 85KG so lost weight as well.
Good numbers you got there, mine morning late 5s or mid 6s, two hours after eatign usually around 6.5. Obviously some days I loose control and eat to destruction but I need to stop that, I have gone from 105KG to 85KG so lost weight as well.Morning results are still a little unpredictable, ignoring the fact there's a 15% error margin on BG meters. I very much tend to agree with @KennyA that the first morning reading isn't worth worrying about too much. I track it, but it's more of a curiousity and building data thing for me, not something I stress about.
Some mornings I get 5s. Most mornings I get low 6s. However, on occasional mornings I still get high 6s and low 7s - presumably my liver thinks I need to be ready for an early morning ironman triathlon on these days!
Before meals I'm consistently in the 5s range, with occasional high 4s if I've timed exercise 2-3 hours beforehand and not eaten after it. I'm on keto levels of carb intake, so the highest 2hr post meal reading I get these days is 6.5, but I'm mostly in the 5s for this too.
My current 7 day average across all 28 readings I've taken, regardless of timing, is showing as 5.7. Not necessarily meaningful, but the majority of my readings seem to be between 5 and 6 now.
Worth also mentioning I've lost quite a lot of weight since diagnosis and my morning reading has tracked downwards in-line with that.
How are yours doing?
Great results there, keep at it!Good numbers you got there, mine morning late 5s or mid 6s, two hours after eatign usually around 6.5. Obviously some days I loose control and eat to destruction but I need to stop that, I have gone from 105KG to 85KG so lost weight as well.
Keep it up. I was 104kg around Easter last year and BMI was 36. Around 85kg when I was diagnosed last Dec and now 75kg BMI 26, aim to lose a few more kg by end of this year.Good numbers you got there, mine morning late 5s or mid 6s, two hours after eatign usually around 6.5. Obviously some days I loose control and eat to destruction but I need to stop that, I have gone from 105KG to 85KG so lost weight as well.
Thanks, @KennyANot really, because they measure different things. The fingerprick test measures blood glucose at that instant. You only have data for the times you test - so no information about what happens while you're asleep, for instance. It's also possible to construct a testing regime that avoids the points when your blood glucose is likely to be elevated (although it's self-defeating).
The HbA1c counts the number of glycated red blood cells - that''s the cells that have had a glucose molecule attached to them. Because red blood cells live about three months, glucose levels from three months ago affect an A1c reading today.
That said, you can sort of estimate how you're doing. If (eg) you're seeing consistently good readings at +2hrs after eating (within 2mmol/l of your baseline reading and not above 7.8mmol/l) and maintain that for three months and more, it's highly probable that this will reflect in a considerably reduced HbA1c.
When I was new, I tried to add up the fingerprick readings, average them, and plot them against HbA1c. It didn't work - it suggested a much lower HbA1c than actually happened, although the real reading was more than good enough.
That's great, well done to you. My BMI is 26 now as well. I want to get it lower and in healthy range in the remaining months of this year. You still on medication even at a Hba1c of 35?Keep it up. I was 104kg around Easter last year and BMI was 36. Around 85kg when I was diagnosed last Dec and now 75kg BMI 26, aim to lose a few more kg by end of this year.
My weight started to go down for a few months last summer to 94kg. However, I did not pay much attention until I experienced heavy diabetes symptoms in October which lost 10kg in a month. Hba1c result Nov was 135 and morning fingertip test 9 to 10, 2hrs after eating (even very low carbs) 13 to 17. I followed GP advice to take Metformin, change diets and more active, a month later morning fingertip was around 6 and 2 hrs after eating 7 to 11. Last month hba1c test 35 well in the range and morning fingertip around 5.3 to 5.6. I just had a heavy carbs meal mainly rice and noodles for dinner and 2 hrs later BG around 7.6.
The BG 2hrs after eating I take that as reference and less worry about it now. I am happy as long as my BG continue to go down after eating and hba1c within range. I still eat KFC, kebabs and other takeaway foods but do my best to avoid eating too much crabs in those foods as much as possible.
yes, I am still on medication, I tried to ask my GP about this but seems he misunderstood my online request and only reviewed my BG results.That's great, well done to you. My BMI is 26 now as well. I want to get it lower and in healthy range in the remaining months of this year. You still on medication even at a Hba1c of 35?
It's only a rough estimate but I've found that the 3 month average of my morning finger prick results has closely approximated my last 2 hb1ac's. For example my last hb1ac was 43 which I think is equivalent to 6.1% and over the 3-month period prior to that the average of my morning tests was 6.3.Is there some kind of index to convert our BG (e.g. my BG levels in the morning are below 6mmol/L. ) levels to an HbA1c value? I keep on forgetting to ask my M.D.? Thanks!
Hi @tweedjack and welcome to the forum. You could probably do with this being a thread of its own for more visibility. I’ll tag in the moderators who could do this for you @EllieM @ianf0ster @KennyA @lovinglife @Pipp @TriciaWs @VashtiB .Good Morning. I'm writing from Canada and I have had T2 for 20 years. For the first 10 years I basically ignored it. Took Metfornin and a few other drugs but they all made me nautious so I just stopped taking anything. About 10 years ago I did start taking BP meds though, still taking them and then about 18 months ago, got serious about getting my Diabetes under control and started using a CGM - Libre. It was expensive and not covered by insurance so only used it 2 weeks per month and then I went on Insulin and it was covered by insurance. Not sure if this is the right forum for this dicussion but I want support where I can create accountability for staying on the Whole Food Plant Based No Oil way of eating. I was going to go the Mastering Diabetes way (program) but frankly it was way too much money, couldn't afford it. So I want to create a way to have a community and accountability (and help) for myself.
Am I in the right place?
Hi tweedjack. We have members who use the Mastering Diabetes approach. It's not something I have experience of myself but you might find thatGood Morning. I'm writing from Canada and I have had T2 for 20 years. For the first 10 years I basically ignored it. Took Metfornin and a few other drugs but they all made me nautious so I just stopped taking anything. About 10 years ago I did start taking BP meds though, still taking them and then about 18 months ago, got serious about getting my Diabetes under control and started using a CGM - Libre. It was expensive and not covered by insurance so only used it 2 weeks per month and then I went on Insulin and it was covered by insurance. Not sure if this is the right forum for this dicussion but I want support where I can create accountability for staying on the Whole Food Plant Based No Oil way of eating. I was going to go the Mastering Diabetes way (program) but frankly it was way too much money, couldn't afford it. So I want to create a way to have a community and accountability (and help) for myself.
Am I in the right place?
Click on your pic, top right of the screen, select signature, do your edit then click save.I’ve been a member for a while and I would like to change my signature, but I’ve no idea how to do that. Does anybody know?
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