After sleeping for 10 hours or so, I've woken up today with bloor sugar of 15.3
I'm quite recently diagnosed (june) and I take one 750mg SR metformin daily. Is there medication which helps lower the blood sugar levels more than metformin? I've been told that metformin doesnt really have much of an effect on lowering it.
Firstly may I say that if you want to get on top of this disease and keep it under control you need to be organised with your testing and recording. Those readings you list only suggest to me that your levels are high but neither you nor I know why. You really need to know why .... the way to do this is to test before you eat and again 2 hours after first bite. Keep a food diary with portion sizes and record your levels alongside the food eaten. This will show you at a glance what that meal has done to your levels and give you the opportunity to change some of the foods (either by reducing portion sizes of the carbs or by eliminatng some). A rise of more than 2mmol/ means too many carbs in that meal.
You can then test when you wake up, but to get a realistic idea of what that level means, you also need a bedtime level.
Secondly, it isn't just food that causes raised levels. Our livers produce glucose naturally, and in times of not eating, stress, exercise and so on our bodies detect that we need extra energy to cope, so the liver sends glucose into the blood stream to help. This most often happens in the mornings but can happen at any time.
Thank you, I've found this very informative, I will start keeping the food diary and take the readings as well.
So with my levels being high when I woke up, and me chosing not to eat because they were high I could have potentially made the levels go higher due to not eating?
Woke this morning to a 10.8. Had some scrambled egg for breakfast, 2 hours later I'm 11.5
Better than yesterday but still a long way off where I need to be.
This for me as well. Protein will do the same thing. I have to keep the glycogen stores empty.That's a great improvement. I find that a carbs filled day, especially dinner will raise my night time and fasting glucose for a couple of days above its usual 5.0-5.5 mmol. So I would recommend light dinner or no dinner to give our body more time to clear away any excess in our glycogen store.
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Day 5- carbs filled day kept glucose levels above 5.5 mmol all day, especially the night time (12am-6am) glucose level.
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Day 6- This elevated night time glucose remains for 2 more days.
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Day 8- Night time glucse starts to return back to normal with light dinner, although breakfast was heavy on carbs. (~ 5.5 mmol)
You may find my 14 days glucose response summary helpful..
http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/blog-entry/14-days-with-freestyle-libre.1529/
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