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

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Bluetit1802 said:
It could be you are coming down with something, or maybe some underlying stress? Or maybe the berries and cream for supper ..... what about having them straight after your dinner?
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6.6 this am.9.9 3 hours after dinner tonight. Don't feel right..
 
Protea said:
My blood glucose level this morning was 6.6.
Average is usually between 6 and 7.5.
This my first posting.
Diagnosed Type 2 diabetic from 2005.
Managed on diet alone. Used info from Dr Bernstein, Dr Atkins and Now Professor Noakes of UCT.
Tested about annually Via HbA1c and all OK.
Resident in Pretoria, South Africa since 1966.
Not overweight - never overweight.
Hope these comments are of some use.
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hi and welcome
 
Mike D said:
4.6 this morning so pretty happy with that :)
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...and 6.9 one and a half hours after breakfast. GRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!

No difference in food between this morning and yesterday morning but yesterday it was 5.3 and then 6.1 after one hour
 
MsVelvet said:
Wow, the changes you have made are suiting you.
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Yep they are and I think I just worked out why it jumped to 6.9

I drank two glasses of diet mineral water which contains 950 952 sweeteners just after breakfast so I'm putting it down to that :(
 
Mike D said:
Yep they are and I think I just worked out why it jumped to 6.9

I drank two glasses of diet mineral water which contains 950 952 sweeteners just after breakfast so I'm putting it down to that :(
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What's diet mineral water and why does it contain sweeteners. Water is sugar free anyway?
Pavlos
 
pavlosn said:
What's diet mineral water and why does it contain sweeteners. Water is sugar free anyway?
Pavlos
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It's diet mineral water (flavoured with lemon lime and bitters) and includes (albeit minimal levels of) sugar. It isn't straight mineral water
 
I see must be the flavouring.

Did you wash your hands before testing. It could be contamination on your finger. Did you test more than once. When I get unusual counts, I wash my hands and retest to make sure it is a valid count ( in broad terms, even if you tested the same finger twice in a row you would not get exactly the same reading).

Also bear in mind that home testing glucose monitors are only accurate to 15%, which gives a range of roughly +\- 1 mmol on a reading of 6,9 mmol


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pavlosn said:
I see must be the flavouring.

Did you wash your hands before testing. It could be contamination on your finger. Did you test more than once. When I get unusual counts, I wash my hands and retest to make sure it is a valid count ( in broad terms, even if you tested the same finger twice in a row you would not get exactly the same reading).

Also bear in mind that home testing glucose monitors are only accurate to 15%, which gives a range of roughly +\- 1 mmol on a reading of 6,9 mmol


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Hi Pavlos :)

No I didn't was the hands but I know I should so that's a handy reminder. I'll put it down to an aberration and the flavoured mineral water.

It's back down to 6.0 just now.

Mike
 
Mike D said:
Hi Pavlos :)

No I didn't was the hands but I know I should so that's a handy reminder. I'll put it down to an aberration and the flavoured mineral water.

It's back down to 6.0 just now.

Mike
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if you enjoy the water, why not test specifically for it. Wait until you take your next 2 hour post meal count and then drink the water and test every fifteen minutes to see if it causes significant increase to your levels. Any dissolved sugar/carbs will enter your bloodstream quickly, that is why I am suggesting such short interval.



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pavlosn said:
if you enjoy the water, why not test specifically for it. Wait until you take your next 2 hour post meal count and then drink the water and test every fifteen minutes to see if it causes significant increase to your levels. Any dissolved sugar/carbs will enter your bloodstream quickly, that is why I am suggesting such short interval.



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I love mineral water so I'll just drink the pure stuff from this day forward. I'd rather not take the chance with what I've been drinking and I'm getting tired of pricking my fingers :)

In any event, there was no difference between what I ate and drank yesterday morning save for the flavoured drink this morning and straight water yesterday. I'm absolutely ruthless about abolishing stuff I know does not agree with me. But i LOVE being able to have bacon and eggs each morning since I switched to LCHF
 
Morning all mine 4.9 5.0 4.9 tested three times cause had a bad day yesterday carb fest and got chest infection so all asthma meds back up high including steroids. Steroids normaly send my BG high. Any way time for breekie and volunteering at local CRUK shop
Have a good day
Loulou :rolleyes:

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