Hi!
I’m recently diagnosed with PD but have had a dysfunctioning pancreas for about 15 years which causes me to have to take digestive enzymes with food to supplement.
The hospital always said - keep an eye on your glucose as this condition tends to be progressive.
My A1c has been slowly rising over the last few years, and a few months ago it was 42 - so essentially just within the threshold for PD.
I have been offered only lifestyle advice by my GP - with a suggestion to periodically take a morning glucose reading, which I am following - I gym 4 times a week, and have a varied and mostly healthy diet.
I’m very pro health so decided to trial a cgm with lingo, mainly because I want to be able to better track my glucose and the results are really worrying me - so I thought I’d try this forum to see if anyone has any good advice.
My glucose levels ofcourse vary, the same as any healthy persons should - but should I be more concerned that it is much more of a huge swing back and forth than I realised?
During the morning up to lunch time, it tends to balance out, going up and coming back down fairly quickly - so normal, but in the afternoon it dips severely and then after dinner it goes up and stays up for much longer than I would like.
The most worrying for me is what happens overnight.. Im hyper most of the time, and then have huge crashes into hypo in the early hours of the morning with then big swings back to hyper.
I don’t sleep great, and have suffered with nightmares and waking up for no reason - so this information is really helpful as I didn’t really know the cause of that.
Usually on a morning, around 6am I get a little cortisol nudge to wake me up, but it goes up to around 100mg/dl (5.6Mmol ish) and that remains constant for most of the morning, especially as I have breakfast etc.
I’d be really greatful if anyone has any advice about what’s going on. I don’t like pestering my GP, and don’t want them thinking I’m nuts or obsessing about my health because I absolutely am not - but then also I don’t want to let something get worse when I found act on it now?
Thanks in advance
I’m recently diagnosed with PD but have had a dysfunctioning pancreas for about 15 years which causes me to have to take digestive enzymes with food to supplement.
The hospital always said - keep an eye on your glucose as this condition tends to be progressive.
My A1c has been slowly rising over the last few years, and a few months ago it was 42 - so essentially just within the threshold for PD.
I have been offered only lifestyle advice by my GP - with a suggestion to periodically take a morning glucose reading, which I am following - I gym 4 times a week, and have a varied and mostly healthy diet.
I’m very pro health so decided to trial a cgm with lingo, mainly because I want to be able to better track my glucose and the results are really worrying me - so I thought I’d try this forum to see if anyone has any good advice.
My glucose levels ofcourse vary, the same as any healthy persons should - but should I be more concerned that it is much more of a huge swing back and forth than I realised?
During the morning up to lunch time, it tends to balance out, going up and coming back down fairly quickly - so normal, but in the afternoon it dips severely and then after dinner it goes up and stays up for much longer than I would like.
The most worrying for me is what happens overnight.. Im hyper most of the time, and then have huge crashes into hypo in the early hours of the morning with then big swings back to hyper.
I don’t sleep great, and have suffered with nightmares and waking up for no reason - so this information is really helpful as I didn’t really know the cause of that.
Usually on a morning, around 6am I get a little cortisol nudge to wake me up, but it goes up to around 100mg/dl (5.6Mmol ish) and that remains constant for most of the morning, especially as I have breakfast etc.
I’d be really greatful if anyone has any advice about what’s going on. I don’t like pestering my GP, and don’t want them thinking I’m nuts or obsessing about my health because I absolutely am not - but then also I don’t want to let something get worse when I found act on it now?
Thanks in advance
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