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

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Fasting check late again and highish: 7.5

Have had some interesting readings so far today: I checked again later on after being up and about a bit, so pre brunch was a shameful 8.0; tested again after an hour as both wasn't feeling too good this morning, and had a larger portion of blueberries than normal (these are tmy most spikey berries) and was 8.1, then down to 7.2 at the two hour mark - probably due to a healthy dose of metformin and cream?! But not quite what I was expecting...happily. :eek:

Robbity
 
No sign of my replacement strips today - the supplier says they were shipped on Monday; hopefully they will arrive tomorrow. I didn't bother with 1st class post because last time they arrived the next day with 2nd class. Oh well!
 
WeeFergus said:
Even if I liked alcohol it is extremely unlikely I would 'glug' it - very unladylike!
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It all depends on the wine , my wife loves my glugging wines it's trying to stop her from glugging the forty quid bottles that upsets me :blackeye: it's not that she is unladylike it's just she is more of a she devel when she's had a drink :blackeye::blackeye::blackeye:
 
JAY1JAY1 said:
It all depends on the wine , my wife loves my glugging wines it's trying to stop her from glugging the forty quid bottles that upsets me :blackeye: it's not that she is unladylike it's just she is more of a she devel when she's had a drink :blackeye::blackeye::blackeye:
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Speaking personally my better half can, er, become very friendly after a glass or two :) More than that though and it can be a disaster area!
 
Yesterday - 6.1... 4.9 before home-made chicken soup... too tired to wait to test before bed... 4.5 before chicken soup last night and 5.6 this morning... woken to gusting gale force winds but bright sunshine and no dust so far...
 
Baruney said:
Hola

5.8 fasting. At last Under the 7s. Weather pretty grey down here but can live that.
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Good news.... never mind the weather... feels great, doesn't it? :) Little things......
 
WeeFergus said:
Good morning all. I had a 5.9 fasting reading this morning after a 6.0 bedtime one. Of course, I'm back on the 100ml red wine just before I go to bed so maybe that is why I'm under 6 again.
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That's quite something.... :) I wish I could stick to 100ml..... :oops:
 
nomistheman said:
Those are very high blood glucose levels!

It's encouraging that they have reduced so much.

I would suggest to not worry too much about fasting blood glucose levels at this point. I would suggest it's better to focus on pre and post (2 hours after eating) prandial readings. Adjust meals so that the difference is no greater than 2 mmol / L - it's an iterative process but, one I found very worthwhile.

Have a good look around the website this form is based on - it has a wealth of trustworthy information to start from.

Ask as many questions as you have - the only stupid question is the one you don't ask. ;)

One last piece of advise, if I may, don't lower your husband's readings too fast.

That may seem a strange comment but, I know I lowered mine too fast and experienced false hypos and blurred vision because of it. Neither of which were pleasant and both were quite worrying at the time.

I later found out I could have damaged my eyes by doing that - luckily, they seem to have tolerated the drama.

Oh, yes, welcome to the forum. I've generally found the members here to be incredibly knowledgable and helpful and most of all friendly.
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vit90 said:
No sign of my replacement strips today - the supplier says they were shipped on Monday; hopefully they will arrive tomorrow. I didn't bother with 1st class post because last time they arrived the next day with 2nd class. Oh well!
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Good advice.... :)
 
vit90 said:
No sign of my replacement strips today - the supplier says they were shipped on Monday; hopefully they will arrive tomorrow. I didn't bother with 1st class post because last time they arrived the next day with 2nd class. Oh well!
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Got you mixed up there... sorry... how frustrating for you... I always feel a bit panicky when I don't have any strips - hard to see how I get myself in that position though... :) Hope they arrive today...
 
JAY1JAY1 said:
It all depends on the wine , my wife loves my glugging wines it's trying to stop her from glugging the forty quid bottles that upsets me :blackeye: it's not that she is unladylike it's just she is more of a she devel when she's had a drink :blackeye::blackeye::blackeye:
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It's very difficult not to drink a really good red quickly though.... all those forest fruits... lovely black cherries, blackberries, whinberries, etc.... :) Eek... I've just talked myself into a Cabernet Sauvignon at 7.30am... :eek::D
 
4.9 at 5.20 this morning , very little sleep, but I will take it.

Readings over the weekend will be slanted, have people over from tonight and regrettably will probably have too much Vod with said company.

But we still have to live and at least Vod has no carbs, well that my excuse.

Have a good one everyone.
 
up an hour earlier this morning as have to walk the dogs before I go for an iron infusion today reading was 6.7 on rising:) unsure about taking paracetamol though do they lower your levels, greasy breakfast I do not think i could stomach that first thing in a morning maybe try it tomorrow ;)
 
Morning all 5.3 this morning, looks like evening insulin is working on fasting levels. Still going higher and staying high during the day
 
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