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

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5.7 this morning so bit better. Surprised as had really disturbed night with wind, both the weather and my own ;-)
 
5.4 for me this morning. I see ther have been a lot of posts whilst I was sleeping...... Could eat a horse but one slice of toast will do me, lunchtime isn't all that far away ;-)
 
7.1 this, the nurse took me off medication altogether, was only taking one Metformin 500 mg/day !

Seems to hover around 7 mark regardless of what I eat the night before !
 
AndBreathe said:
It could be worthwhile buying yourself a home monitor. Mine passed all the recommended tests (for accuracy against professional machines), has a 200 reading memory and only cost about £20, if I recall. I now take this with me when I see the Doc or nurse, and whilst they will still measure for themselves, using their own machine, they accept my own readings. Such is the prevalence of White Coat Syndrome these days! With these back-up readings in my handbag, I feel much more relaxed about the formal measure.
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I have a BP monitor that I use at home. Back in Feb I managed to record 170/96 at the surgery, when my home average this year is actually 107/65! They have white coat syndrome in my notes now and largely disregard any readings taken at the surgery. I e-mail through my latest readings to the doctor from time to time. I also took my own monitor in and got the same sort of reading in the surgery - I didn't think that I was scared or worried, but something whacks it right up when I am in there.

Maxwell
 
Many people benefit from home bp monitors. Its so very common for readings to be much higher at clinic...most surgeries will ask for a weeks readings from home and accept these
 
I also have my own BP monitor. I don't use it much these days, just occasionally, as my BP is on the lower end of normal. My GP always does 2 BP readings when I see her. The first is always higher. She says she tends to mentally knock 5 points off readings taken in the surgery because of WCS.
 
There can be a problem with the modern electronic home testing blood pressure devices. They can give false high or low readings, whereas any decent clinic will only use calibrated equipment .
 
6.9 this morning.
6 last night
Not posted for a day or so. Fighting a dying router. It's just woken up before it goes back into a coma
 
Pasha said:
There can be a problem with the modern electronic home testing blood pressure devices. They can give false high or low readings, whereas any decent clinic will only use calibrated equipment .
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Any monitor can be off. Calibration, although comforting, is only as good as the mment it was set up and calibrated. In the UK the British Hypertension Society has a list of monitors it deems suitable for home use: http://www.bhsoc.org//index.php?cID=246

These days, many practices, including the practise I use, deploy a mixture of the old style sphygmomanometer and electronic devices. When requesting patient driven home testing, my practise lend the patient an OMRON device and seem quite happy with that.

I think anyone using a home BP monitor should probably view it a bit like their home glucose meter. It's a great tool, but there's probably better out there somewhere.
 
beatdise said:
Well I must say my codefree meter seems to be giving me some very odd results. Certainly higher than my accucheck aviva was giving me. Seems to be more volatility too. Apart from last night my food has been pretty much the same. So the juries out for me guys on the Codefree for now.
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I was given a Contour Next USB meter so always use that. My strips are "codefree" too but don't know if they are interchangeable with other models of meter
 
beatdise said:
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Hi guys I have been putting all my numbers into a spreadsheet. I have highlighted in red, amber or green. So anything over 8 is a red, 7 and over is amber and anything below is green. This way I can see when the spikes have happened how often and why. The numbers start with fasting on the left the white columns are mainly the one hour numbers the 6 largely green columns are my before and after. Breakfast, Lunch and dinner. So you can see more ambers and reds recently as I have tried to reintroduce carbs to see if my resistance is improving. So clearly NOT yet able
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My Contour Next USB does this for me - though was a bit awkward to set up with Windows 8.1 was a doddle with Windows 7.
 
Silver Hammer said:
4.8 this morning

Maxwell
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Got to ask - is the wine bottle one of those "personalised" ones or is it where you took your username from or did you just get your user name from the old song that will now be banging around in @allibee's head again?

Only asking as my eldest daughter's nickname was Blossom - surname Hill - she found a "personalised" wine quite easily :D
 
Sable_Jan said:
I was given a Contour Next USB meter so always use that. My strips are "codefree" too but don't know if they are interchangeable with other models of meter
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Strips are meter specific. They may be useable with other meters from the same manufacturer, but even that's not too common.
 
pavlosn said:
For anyone interested, a link to the A1C-Derived Average Glucose (ADAG) study, an interesting ( to me at least :) study of glucose levels of non diabetic individuals put on continuous glucose monitors.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892065/

Here is an abstract as well:


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Abstract
Aims/hypothesis

Real-life glycaemic profiles of healthy individuals are poorly studied. Our aim was to analyse to what extent individuals without diabetes exceed OGTT thresholds for impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) and diabetes.

Methods

In the A1C-Derived Average Glucose (ADAG) study, 80 participants without diabetes completed an intensive glucose monitoring period of 12 weeks. From these data, we calculated the average 24 h glucose exposure as time spent above different plasma glucose thresholds. We also derived indices of postprandial glucose levels, glucose variability and HbA1c.

Results

We found that 93% of participants reached glucose concentrations above the IGT threshold of 7.8 mmol/l and spent a median of 26 min/day above this level during continuous glucose monitoring. Eight individuals (10%) spent more than 2 h in the IGT range. They had higher HbA1c, fasting plasma glucose (FPG), age and BMI than those who did not. Seven participants (9%) reached glucose concentrations above 11.1 mmol/l during monitoring.

Conclusions/interpretation

Even though the non-diabetic individuals monitored in the ADAG study were selected on the basis of a very low level of baseline FPG, 10% of these spent a considerable amount of time at glucose levels considered to be ‘prediabetic’ or indicating IGT. This highlights the fact that exposure to moderately elevated glucose levels remains under-appreciated when individuals are classified on the basis of isolated glucose measurements

Pavlos
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Interesting. This seems to be more a study on the blood glucose levels of people who are considered non-diabetic based on HbA1c and fasting blood glucose testing, rather than a study of completely healthy people with respect to their insulin resistance/beta cells. An alternate conclusion might be that people considered healthy based on fasting blood glucose and HbA1c tests, but have not had an OGTT, may not be 100% healthy with respect to glycemic control.
"The limitations of the current study include the absence of OGTTs to rule out diabetes with certainty or to classify participants as having IGT." What's missing from the study is that they didn't actually verify that the people were completely healthy.
 
pavlosn said:
I wonderful illustration of how I could have used a lot less words to get my message across! :)
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Never change your method of getting your message across - the FORUM description just backed up what you were saying :). Your "long monologue" was interesting to read (the phrase implies boring to me but that is one thing which you are not!)
 
AndBreathe said:
Strips are meter specific. They may be useable with other meters from the same manufacturer, but even that's not too common.
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thanks @AndBreathe - it does say on them not suitable for some of the other their other meters - the name "codefree" sort of implies in my mind that they would be interchangeable
 
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