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

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kimbo1962 said:
Yep....its the batch number on the pot of Codefree strips. During my almost 8 months since diagnosed there has been a couple of dodgy batches but this 44 seems the absolute worst!!
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So codefree is a brand of meter?
 
6.7 for me this morning... Its my own fault I needed some comfort food last night. My boss called me at 7:30pm to say that his Mother had passed away, and it was all action stations to get him flights back to Spain and to make all the necessary arrangements and changes to his calender etc. So by about 10pm when it was all done, I suddenly found myself thinking about my parents and my boss and I was feeling really sad and in need of something comforting... so it was either white toast and butter or Rich Tea biscuits - I went with a cup of tea and biscuits... I'm not really sure I enjoyed them, but curling up on the sofa with a hot mug of tea and my housemates eating biscuits and talking until late kind of helped......
 

Very annoying and frustrating and head banging. At least Homehealth have sent me a packet of 10 new tubs for free, due to arrive today, which was very kind of them. Hopefully the new batch will be back to normal.
 
I started a new tub of batch 44 yesterday evening and got an "I don't believe it" moment at bedtime and again this morning - perfectly normal readings!!!!

Bedtime 5.1
Fasting 5.5
 
6.3 this morning on my back up batch. Ate very late last night in pub after driving to parents and back to collect Mr E's birthday cake. I don't think the stress of using batch 44 is helping either- I dread taking my levels now.
 
cold ethyl said:
6.3 this morning on my back up batch. Ate very late last night in pub after driving to parents and back to collect Mr E's birthday cake. I don't think the stress of using batch 44 is helping either- I dread taking my levels now.
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I would get some more ordered if I were you. I was about to order more when Homehealth sent me the replacement box. I was also feeling like you, dreading taking a reading. The whole thing was on my mind all the time, and I really am not an anxious person. I still have 4 tubs left of batch 44, but for what they cost it just wasn't worth the stress.
 
Bluetit1802 said:
I started a new tub of batch 44 yesterday evening and got an "I don't believe it" moment at bedtime and again this morning - perfectly normal readings!!!!

Bedtime 5.1
Fasting 5.5
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That's what I found with my latest tub of 44s. All my readings have been spot on. No anomalies at all (touch wood).

Another good reading (for me)
Bedtime 7.8 (experimented with 6 raspberries) after a +2 hours of 6.9

Fasting 6.5

Pre-breakfast (2 hours later) 7.9 (liver dump???)
+2 hours back down to 6.8
 
Prefix with batch 44
Average Fasting 5.3
Yesterday 6.1
Today 6.4
Last Night Bed 6.9

Yesterday I was a little confused (not unusual for me ) I have on 2 previous occasions had a Tesco Curry Finest a Jalfreza & a Madras but I had looked at the labelling wrongly, I thought it said 14g carbs (this is white writing on black and in no order), but when purchasing for yesterdays meal noticed this was wrong it was 70g carbs. I'd looked at the 'per 100g'. However as I had tested before when having this and did not from what I could remember had any major highs on the bloods, decided to continue & did a test.

Started eating Late 9.23pm
5.2 Jalfreeza with rice plus added own yogurt on side 70 carbs total, with one glass of wine
6.0 1/2hr
7.3 1hr
7.3 1 1/2hr
7.0 2hrs
7.0 2 1/2hrs Cup of tea no milk 1 square 70%
8.0 3hrs
6.9 4hrs

I don't understand when 2 slices of Seed sensation totalling 28 carbs sends me straight into the 9s yet the above at 70 carbs as just not had the affect I imagined.
Neil
 

I suppose having the chocolate has skewed the results a bit because whilst the choc shot you up another mmol/l it is quick release, so your bedtime 6.9 may still have been the curry/rice taking a heck of a long time to come down. With seed sensations it may shoot you up to the 9's, but I bet it is down to normal a lot faster than that curry. Just a thought.
 
Yes, Thanks Bluetit, you may well be right.
Of course this is on Batch 44 so not too much confidence in the readings either.
Neil
 

See, this is why DNs advise against testing, it stresses you out lol :***:
 
Yippee no hypo no liver dump
7.1 last night at bedtime
5.1 this morning

That will do
 
Were all in need of comfort now an then ....now fall into line and carry on :)
 
5.0 this morning, up and down like a yo-yo this week; 4.1, 4.9, 4.2, 5.0....

Thought that I had posted this earlier and have just discovered that it hadn't gone on, ah well better late than never!

Maxwell
 
Been to Doctors chest infection flared back up back on antibiotics and steroids up:-(. hbc1a has come back high so got consultant appointment begin of march. Doc thinks infection and steroids are not helping bg levels.
 
loulou99782 said:
Been to Doctors chest infection flared back up back on antibiotics and steroids up:-(. hbc1a has come back high so got consultant appointment begin of march. Doc thinks infection and steroids are not helping bg levels.
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It maybe that they decide to put you on some diabetic meds while you are on high doses of steroids, hopefully they can get everything on a better keel for you soon x
 
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