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

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5.4 @ 5am up again thanks chest. Will count this as overnight. Got an appointment to see asthma nurse@ guys on Thursday. Maybe see can help. Waking up in the small hours is driving me mad:-|
Sorry you don't seem to be getting better very quickly...
 
How frustrating for you... It's all about the money I suppose... You will be able to test everything you eat before and two hours after your food... it will soon level out... good luck...
 
 
Back from Drs , no doctor to do bloods, stuck in traffic.

Trying again in Wednesday 08:00 third time lucky I hope.
You must be gnashing your teeth.... What kind of a surgery is it? It sounds disorganised... Good luck for Wednesday...
 
Good thinking... I heard that cashews are a bean, not a nut... maybe that adds starch... aren't we supposed to only eat 'tree nuts'?
 
It's so exciting, isn't it? It doesn't take much to make us happy, eh?
 
5.8, well it is Monday.

But on the up side a big fat zero rise at dinner - avocado vinaigrette, baked trout and salad, berries and cream - from 5.4 to 5.4.
That's fantastic... and what a perfect dinner...
 
Well done... It's good here, isn't it?
 
You must be gnashing your teeth.... What kind of a surgery is it? It sounds disorganised... Good luck for Wednesday...
Susikav,

It used to be a single doctor surgery and he is a friend of mine, now it's been taken over by a group practice, they are nice people but never see the same Dr twice in the row.

Here's to tomorrow being my lucky day.

Thanks for the good luck.
 
5.7 fasting and 6.0 after a huge breakfast of smoked salmon, poached eggs and spinach, and three espressos with cream...
 
That sounds lovely
 
Not at all, it's a very interesting post Millysue... I think most of us were 'being good' for years too, and I'm sure we were really helping ourselves... I hope you can prove the nurse wrong... there are loads of lovely recipes on the low-carb sites - All Day I Dream About Food is site run by an amazing lady... As you like fish it will be easier for you to make up your meals... being veggie is difficult, I know... so much of your diet will be 'healthy' pulses and beans and stuff which you can't low-carb on.... There's a lovely thread on here with low-carb recipes people have posted - some of it from 2008! Unfortunately I lost it and can't seem to find it again... I'll have another look later, it's there somewhere... Good luck with it all...
 
That sounds lovely
It is - until June to August/September... then it's hot, but the garden is still lovely, with bougainvillea and jasmine everywhere... It's perfect at the moment, but it will get much too hot... everywhere is air-conditioned though... I have to come back to the UK tomorrow to sort out the builders in my house, so I will miss it...
 
Indeed Killer... right....
 
My HbA1c is back down in normal range from pre-diabetic but am rarely in the fasting FOURS.....low fives normally
But that's very good...
 
Have you found any correlation with diet or any other lifestyle aspect? I get to 4.5 in my pre prandials...
Are you on meds? A lot of us low-carb to stay off the meds, and some of us low-carb and respond so well that we stop any meds at all, or reduce them... The lucky ones are the ones who are pre-diabetic and discover this forum before they begin to take meds...
 
I have been taking metformin on and off for years due to my insulin resistance and PCOS. At the moment I am taking 2000mg but I know from previous experiences with low carbing in the past that once I manage to bring the weight down my need for metformin is smaller, however since I am now diabetic I am not sure how will it work from now on, will have to wait until I lose enough weight and see...
 
All good news! You must have felt so good... I posted before about the amount of natural histamines in our food - if we eat too much of one type it can give panic attacks - racing heart, sweating and anxious... but it's probably your hormones..
 
Also... the prescribed me gliclazide when I left the hospital, I took it for two weeks, but it didn't make any sense to me to take it due to the insuline resistance (I have a lot excess weight which exacerbates the IR) so I talked to the nurse and I stopped the gliclazide, my numbers went dramatically down after that. The aftermath of the gliclazide for me is that my acne came back (which means I had tons of insuline running frrely in my system and playing havoc with my testosterone levels...) ... and it takes time to clear out.
 
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