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Type 2's: What was your fasting blood glucose in a morning?

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phil1966 said:
Thanks - my aim is definitely to get consistently in the 5's in a morning but I'm not going to beat myself up too much about it as I'm definitely pleased with my progress so far
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Have I welcomed you to the madhouse/forum/thread yet? If not, welcome to the "club"
 
brettsza said:
Hi @Bluetit1802 mine are slightly going up and yours too is it coz of cold, mine is first winters so I am not sure at all.
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Do you think it is colder weather per se or a slight change in diet to "winter" foods? My have been up a tad but I know I have been "experimenting" with cold weather foods..
 
vit90 said:
Sounds like dehydration and concentration of glucose in blood?

Just read that caffeine is not good for insulin resistance I like my espresso!
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Thanks @vit90 I didn't know that. Drink lots of tea (so it could add up) but not too many strong coffees
 
Just KNEW someone would pick up on that just expected it to be @Nuthead
 
How's about this for meter discrepancies.

I wanted to get rid of the remainder of my strips in my current tub as I think they are reading high. This is what happened. Hands clean, consecutive tests, different fingers:

6.1
5.6
4.6
5.5
5.2
4.8
5.0

Strips all gone. Onwards and downwards.
 
So the average is 5.3 and the other numbers are within +/- 16% of that. Not bad, actually.
 
Bluetit1802 said:
It still makes life very difficult when trying to keep stats on post-meal rises, which is important to me.
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I think sometimes we push the envelope too far on what these meters can do. We know that they can be +/- 20% of true value at the extreme end, therefore they are best for long term trends rather than spot readings. The only way to pin down meal spikes with any decent accuracy would be to do say 5 tests each time, which would start to get expensive.
 
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