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

[viviennem]

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5.4 at 07:00 today.

Viv 8)

 

[alliebee]

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18 !!!!!

and they have cancelled my app at clinic today until monday as have staff problems

just had srambled eggs as darent eat any carbs, and the glicazide just isnt working at all......

good job i work from home as soon I will take my laptop with me to the loo to save time

Grrrrrrrr


Metformin 750 SR
Glicazide 80mg x 3 daily :?

 

[viviennem]

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5.1 at 07:30.

My raging toothache has turned into an abcess, so I am as high as a kite on 3 different painkillers and living on soup and scrambled eggs. Consequently reasonably good BGs! I have a swollen face and am feeling very miserable :cry: , but fortunately no pain at the moment .

To the dentist this afternoon to see what needs to be done - I'm supposed to be having a general anaesthetic on Thursday next week, so it needs sorting asap.

Yes, I did check with the pharmacist that I can take all 3 painkillers at the same time - they're for different things. :roll:

Viv 8)

 

[mrawfell]

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I like mine between 5 and 6, which it has been. It is strange that I was diagnosed T2 because of high FBS. However since then whether I take tablets or not, it has always been alright since ? I was given metformin 500 mg per day, which brought it down, however because of the side effects ( bad guts ) I tried to manage on diet alone, I have a meter, even after 3 weeks of no meds my FBS was still OK. However my 2 hours after readings went too high. so now I am on Galvus. It's just ironic that I could have easily not been diagnosed. I believe with diabetes, it is better to know than live in blissful ignorance.

 

[chocoholicnomore]

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Haven't tested at all since Tuesday and it was 6.4 this morning.

 

[didie]

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5.0 yesterday and 5.2 this morning despite a couple of stressful days.

 

[viviennem]

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6.1 at 08:00 today. I think it must be this abcess - it's huge! :shock:

I'm now on 2 different sorts of antibiotic, as well as 3 painkillers - I'm having to write down what I take and when, otherwise it gets very confusing :crazy: . Biggest problem is getting the infection sorted out so I can have a small dose of general anaesthetic on Thursday.

The tooth (the last molar in the corner of my lower jaw) is coming out on the 16th - first ever extraction! Can anyone tell me how long before I can eat properly again?

I don't need this :thumbdown:

Viv 8)

 

[elviscole]

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sounds nasty Viv :shock:
mine was 5.9 this morning
treated meself to a fry up and 2 hours after it was 5.8, this lo carb thing working good

 

[ladybird64]

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I have now bought some strips from Ebay so am able to test again (although grateful thanks to that wonderful forum member who donated a meter and some strips to me, some great folks here) with a little more regularity.

I tracked down this post
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=23574&p=216032#p216032
which I made back in August, haven't done a fasting BG since then.
Did one yesterday which was 6.6 and this morning at 10 am (late start!) 6.3.

I'm well pleased with the improvement but am still going to concentrate on the pre and post meals for the time being, maybe do a fasting twice a week.

It's all going in the right direction! :clap:

EDIT-Don't know why the link didn't work but I couldn't get below 7 at that point at the end of August

 

[Dougie22]

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7.1 this morning at 8.50

This is my last routine fasting test for now as I'm going to concentrate my limited resources on after dinner readings for a while to see if I can get on top of those.

My own conclusion is that fasting tests are too variable (in my case, anyway) to be really, really useful. My semi retired lifestyle means that I get up at different times every day and my readings seem to correlate better to how late I get up than to what I've been eating the day before or my general BG management.

I think that the only reason they work in diagnosis of T2 (in my case diagnosed specifically as a result of two fasting tests greater than 7.0) is that they are so much higher than a non-diabetic. In my case, they don't seem to be the best measure to help in long term BG management.

Of course this may not be true for you and I'll continue to track this post for the interesting information it throws up.

 

[viviennem]

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You could post a bit on here, Dougie, about how you're going on with your post-prandial readings - I for one would like to know.

The abscess continued: after a pain-free day yesterday, it started hurting at about 18:00 and wouldn't give in to anything I threw at it :crazy: . I eventually went to bed at about 01:00, and much to my surprise slept through until 08:00 :shock: when my fasting BG was 4.9.

I'm taking that as an indictation that the infection is lessening. Too late for my gynae op which they cancelled yesterday because of it. I've managed to bring the extraction forward to next Monday, which should be okay for all my later festivities . So once I've bored you all to death with the gory details of the extraction, I might eventually shut up about it! :lol: :lol:

Thanks very much, everyone, for all your support and good advice. It's the only problem with living alone - no-one to talk things through with. :wink:

Viv 8)

 

[chocoholicnomore]

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5.5 this morning :shock: :shock:

Couldn't believe it after all the tablet I ate last night.

 

[elviscole]

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ive stopped doing mine every morning, just 2 or 3 times a week now now, wednesday i was 5.6 which after what id had for my tea surprised me,
this morning it was 5.0 :thumbup:
am really watching what i eat now, my 14 day av is 6.0 which compared to my last hba1c of 10.8 is a good improvement

 

[peter7]

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sometimes 9, my hbca1 50 in new figures

 

[viviennem]

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Haven't posted for a while but haven't been out of the 5s since November.

Well, D-day has arrived and I had the offending tooth out this morning! What a lot of fuss I was making over very little - I wasn't in the dentist more than 20 minutes! Mind you, the injections haven't worn off yet so I suspect this is a false sense of security. But at least I can go forward for here

I'm allowed red wine from tomorrow :crazy:

Viv 8)

 

[didie]

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You'll feel 100% better now Viv and will be all healed up by Christmas

I was 5.4 this morning. I've discovered that I can get quite different readings from my left and right hands. The right side is usually lower. My stroke was on my left side and I have reduced feeling on that side. I've been pondering on the different readings over the last week or so.

 

[viviennem]

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Thanks, all, for your good wishes

5.1 at 08:30 today, despite the fact I'm eating for softness not carbs at the moment (supermarket Shepherd's Pie last night) :!:

Viv 8)

 

[viviennem]

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5.0 at 08:30 today. And I've lost another 3lbs

Fish pie last night, after another soup and eggs day. The red wine was nice :wink: This whole episode has proved that I can resist alcohol, even if it's in the house, if the motivation is strong enough!

These soup-and-eggs days have been really good for weight loss. I think I shall have a week of it after New Year.

Viv 8)

edited to add last para.

 

[barbarafrances]

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I've been in trouble of late eating Mars bars, naughty I know, so, my blood sugar as not been good. Now I'm monitoring three times daily, morning, lunchtime, evening. The am reading, (fasting) is usually from 2.9-5.4. I've no idea whether this is good or not. The lunchtime reading is 5.4 -to 7.0, the evening reading, 5.4 - 8.0, sometimes higher depending on what I've eaten. I am now watching what I eat, amounts etc. I've been asked to report back for a Albumin: Creatinine Ratio test. I understand this is a new test going forward, well I hope so it's very worrying when the least is explained.
I don't drink, smoke, or eat fat, there's not much more I can do, is there?
Any ideas anyone?

 

[daisy1]

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Hi Barbara - welcome to the forum This information should answer some of your questions:

viewtopic.php?f=20&t=17088#p155405