Silver Hammer
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4.6 this morning
Maxwell
Maxwell
Thank you for the informationFasting is for the cholesterol (lipid) profile testing. You are right that there is no need to fast for Hba1c.
Mike, my doctor says to check two hours later, not an hour. With an hour you might get the spike.6.4 on rising and 8.4 one hour later. Time for exercise methinks but chicken omelette shouldn't have done that
I reckon you have a batch of faulty strips. It happens from time to time.I just cannot work this out
6.4 on rising, chicken omelet for brekkie and at 1 hour it was 8.4 at 2 hours 9.1 (short walk between second and third reading) and just tested again 15 minutes later and it's dropped from 9.1 to 7.9. What's up with that?
Appreciate any opinions.
Mike
On diagnosis my cholesterol was 5.6. I cut out all cheese and 3 months later it had reduced to 4.5. In February I found this site and began low carb and added the cheese back in, along with some butter and full fat yoghurt. I also have about 10 eggs a week.Hi Mike
I am confident that my A1c should be ok if my glucose meter readings are to be believed. I would love to be back in the 5s ( percentage) last time round I was at 6,0% ( 42 mmol).
I am more concerned with the cholesterol as I have been eating more high fat than previously. The main reason I decided to have these tests one month after my previous counts is to make sure that the change of diet has not affected my cholesterol levels adversely. I am doing well on my current diet and I would not like to change it but I will do so if I see a big deterioration in my lipid counts.
I must admit I am a bit puzzled by your readings. Usually my 2 hour count is lower than my one hour, while you seem to experience the opposite. Liver dumps possibly? Maybe you should experiment with. Increasing your carb intake slightly and see if that helps. Trial and error is the only way, I am afraid.
As for wine, my understanding is that doctors recommend 1 glass of red wine per day - probably not the answer you were looking for.
I tend to exercise before breakfast but will have a small piece of fruit before exercise if my fasting level is below 5mmol.
Pavlos
On diagnosis my cholesterol was 5.6. I cut out all cheese and 3 months later it had reduced to 4.5. In February I found this site and began low carb and added the cheese back in, along with some butter and full fat yoghurt. I also have about 10 eggs a week.
At my 6 month review my cholesterol had raised to 5.4 with lipids and triglycerides all moving in the wrong direction.
Someone here said dramatic weight loss can cause such a result in the early days of LCHF. I don't know if that's correct but I now limit myself to 50g cheese in any one day and I don't have the butter as I never used to have it anyway. I've stuck with full fat greek yoghurt and I also eat lots of olives and oily fish ;-). I'm waiting to see what I record at the end of November. If it hasn't improved I'll be reviewing the cheese. I eat either feta or mozzarella and much less cheddar.
Good luck
Thank you for the information
I have my cholesterol tested whenever I have my HbA1c and I've never been told to fast. They also report back to me on my results, giving the HDL, LDL and triglycerides and I'm assuming the first 2 are the lipids.
What I don't understand is, if the blood sample gives the medics a profile for a period of "x" weeks, what is the point in fasting?
I'm not trying to disagree with anyone, just trying to understand the need to fast before lipids profile. Mine fact that some practices stipulate fasting and others don't only adds to the confusion (for me). ;-)
5.4 this morning for me, went to bed on 5.2- much earlier than Saturday night of course!!
Just you wait till you get stuck in to low carbing you will get even better readings11.6
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