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I eat the same breakfast every day and yet the two hour post breakfast reading can vary as much as four points (usually well within range). Is it the meter or the strips?
 
your blood maybe lol......

what was the 2 hour for the last 3 days.....

and did you dose up exactly thee same time before eating?
 
Thanks for your reply. I don't "dose up" as I'm Type 2 and we are talking every day for the last two months of testing!
 
Maybe it's your evening meal. So your blood levels are varying wildly in the morning.
 
The fasting readings are fine mist. I'm talking about the two hour post breakfast readings.
 
asparagusp said:
Thanks for your reply. I don't "dose up" as I'm Type 2 and we are talking every day for the last two months of testing!
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Oh sorry, I should have read your sig.....

It may well be the varying levels or hormones swimming about in the morning, which I suppose could be effected by things like, previous nights food intake, how well you slept and of course how early you got up in comparison to your usual routine etc...
 
The last two days the increase was 0.2 and 3..6 respectively, having had the same tomato and leeks soup the night before! I have changed the Lantus to taking it in the morning instead of the evening which should in theory have meant a small increase today .....
 
@asparagusp your body isn't an automated robot, you do not do exactly the same thing every day all day and the weather is never exactly the same everyday and nor is diabetes! Meters have a 15-20% allowable difference too, that could also add to the variance - so long as you stay reasonably with in your targets then great!
 
Thanks Guys. This is all very well but to be well within range and then out of range when as I said have had the same food and there is no variance in my lifestyle ..... it's odd!
 
Some days I could just scream with readings and say what the flip is going on after 27 years !! quite annoying and exasperating at times.
 
I suppose the Hba1c really is the more accurate picture, though even that is not ideal according to a recent article! lol
 
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@asparagusp did the change in readings occur over the change in insulin timing?
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The night before last, Wednesday, I lowered the evening insulin by two units to four at 9.30 -,. The following morning at 9.30 am I tool six units. Fasting yesterday was predictably much higher than usual - 8.5, two hour post prandial, 8.7! No Lantus last night but six this morning. Fasting, 6.0 and post breakfast, 9.5 ..... Same two dinners, same breakfast.

However I have had this happening over the last couple of months!
 
As I've already mentioned, it's the weather! :D

I assume the reduced lantus Wednesday night was to gear up for moving your insulin from night time to morning?

Just wonder if you need a bit more now that you're taking it in the morning? just taking those readings at face value:

as expected Thursday morning fasting test was higher than normal, and ergo the post prandial - the good news is that breakfast only raised you 0.2 which is nothing, did you do any further tests during the day? so Friday fasting is good, post breakfast not so good, maybe yesterdays lantus had run out, and this mornings hadn't started working?

what was todays lunchtime result like?

How many carbs do you have for breakfast, and lunch and tea while you're at it?!
 
No no! I have been experiencing this for a couple of months! Yes the lower dose evening Lantus was in preparation for the change over. There was only a 0.2 increase in post prandial yesterday and just outside the range.

I eat very little in carbohydrates and as a slim person on insulin I have been advised by my Endocrinologist not to go on the LCHF diet. I always did eat sensibly. More so now.

The replies here seem to be from Type 1s. I'm Type 2! next week

I'm having another Hba1c next week.

Thanks!
 
So the other thing to be aware of is that if you have moved to taking Lantus in the morning, when you come to have breakfast it's likely that the onboard lantus from the previous morning has diminished and the shot you've just taken hasn't taken effect yet. Combine that with the variability of insulin resistance caused by multiple factors, and you can see why you may get a variety of readings.

We know you're type 2 on insulin, but our point of view is that in changing insulin timing, you affect the action of it and when the peaks occur, but also when it runs out. But as a T2, you also have this random factor of insulin resistance, and variability in that will also affect your numbers peripherally. And that can be affected by all manner of thing, both hormonal and environmental.
 
I understand you've been experiencing this oddity for a couple of months - but I can only comment on what readings you've given. Yes most of the people that have responded are T1, as you're a T2 on insulin that's no bad thing, and doesn't mean we know nothing about T2 either :happy:

You say you don't have many carbs, and then say your endo said not to LCHF. Out of interest what types of food and how many carbs do you normally eat in a day?

Many things can affect the way our bodies work (or not!) - blood sugars can vary for apparently no reason, there will always be a reason, it might just not be the thing we're actually looking at that causes it.
 
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