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

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I haven't logged my readings on here for a few days as I didn't want to see them in black and white - too disheartening. Having managed to reduce my fasting readings from 11+ to low 7s and even 6 once, they are back up in the 8s.
8.8 today.

However, I have now spotted the batch 44 conundrum, and that is what I started using last week. So I have no idea what my reading should be.
 
Bluetit1802 said:
Thanks @daddys1 very interesting! I found the explanation of the chart, which says:

Basically, the 20 meters were all tested 10 times against a laboratory verified sample of 6.5mmol/l. The results above show that only 3 meters achieved a more accurate result (shown by the "bias" column) over the 10 tests but of these 3, only 1 meter achieved a more consistently accurate result (shown by the variance figures in the "VK%" column). In other words, of the 3 meters that had a more accurate result over the 10 tests, 2 of them had much greater variation of results (i.e. less consistency).

What these results essentially show is that the only meter that achieved more consistently accurate results than the SD Codefree Blood Glucose Meter was the Finetest system - a unit which, as far as we are aware, is not available to the general public and is only available to medical professionals.

These results also show that whilst the SD Codefree Meter will consistently give you an accurate result, some better known brands such as the Freestyle Lite and the Bayer Contour will consistently give you readings which are much lower than your true blood glucose level.

So it seems the Codefree is very good, accurate and consistent. I bet they didn't use batch 44 strips during the experiment! LOL ;)
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It's interesting certainly, and they have obviously eliminated one set of variables which is how carefully we sample our own blood and how our own BG might vary in a short timescale and between (say) one finger and another. It would be instructive to see the same tests repeated with different batches of strips though!
 
5.0 this morning. Lazy day today baked a bread, and made a steamed apple pudding..............will I enjoy eating ? .....what do you all think :-)
 
simply_h said:
Hello All,

Hope you are all well and fitting fit. :D

I have seen the thread in fasting blood glucose, but was wondering what they are for only Type 2's.

Mine are between 4.5 and 6.0 depending on what I have eaten / drunk the night before.

Cheers
SImply_h
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AndBreathe said:
Vis-a-vis remembering to order stuff when in UK; we run a shared spreadsheet (stored in a shared folder in Dropbox), with a few tabs on. Tabs include UK shopping list, Overseas shopping list, Home jobs and Paradise jobs. When we're in one place and think of something, we bang it onto the speadsheet for action or prioritisation.

The UK shopping list always has certain stuff on, like water filters and some essential oils we use as insect repellents, but it saves a lot of frustration, and works for us.
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What a good idea :)
 
Mandingo said:
5.0 this morning. Lazy day today baked a bread, and made a steamed apple pudding..............will I enjoy eating ? .....what do you all think :)
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Ooh what bread did you make? I made some Swedish breakfast rolls today, um they didn't' quite look like the nice bread roll on the picture, more of a splat really.............
 
killerkaz said:
Ooh what bread did you make? I made some Swedish breakfast rolls today, um they didn't' quite look like the nice bread roll on the picture, more of a splat really.............
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Splat bread .... sounds good :joyful:
 
Have been reading a lot about the batch 44 strips. Is this the end of the lot number. If so think I have a pot of those. My lot number is S0314144. I've ordered another pot
 
Bluetit1802 said:
Yes, that is the batch number, and it is 44.
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Ah that could explain some of the readings I've been getting. It was 7.3 after breakfast this morning which consisted of bacon, egg, tomato and mushrooms. Not been that high before after that particular breakfast.im usually between mid 4s and mid 6s with the odd exception when I have eaten carbs.
 
pavlovsdog said:
Yup, porridge did that to me too :-(
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Only 7.1 for about an hour so I'm not too concerned.
If I'd had the coconut oil to add it wouldn't have gone above 6.5 and that's with a table spoon of that half sugar on it.
 
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