thomarn
Member
Hi. I've been using a Freestyle Libre sensor for a little over a week, and out of curiosity made it a habit of checking once an hour - just to see how my BG reacts to what I put into me, as I'm all new to this type 2 diabetes. Unfortunately, I've had no advice on what to do or not to do (apart from "keep your BG between 5 and 7").
From what I've read here and elsewhere, "spikes" in BG are expected and normal. But I wonder, what are "normal" spikes, and if so - when are those "spikes" normal? An hour after eating, 90 mins, 2 hours?
I've been put on 2 x 1000mg Metformin daily, for info (starting at 2 x 500mg for two weeks but that was before I started using the sensor).
I've set my sensor reader to "normal" being between 5 and 7 (as advised), and in the last 9 days I've been within this for 94% of the time, and that's measuring every hour (except when asleep, of course
From what I've gathered, most carbs are bad and sugar also (obviously?!) and I try to avoid that. Me being un-friendly towards vegetables and seafood doesn't help but I try to vary what I eat with these restrictions. Yet my BG doesn't change much.
However, being fond of my pints, I find it hard to stop drinking yet my BG doesn't seem to be much affected by it. I've read that taking alcohol will in fact lower your BG but for me I might go from 5-5.5 up to 7.5-8 after a first pint and then back to 5-5.5 after another hour yet still drinking in the same tempo (I might have a weekly pint "allowance" in one sitting...). At bed time it will still be around 5 and at wake-up time the next day the BG will still be around 5 (I might have something to eat before going to bed, like a fried egg or a few fish fingers (doesn't taste like fish!) but nothing major like it used to be, like - mmm - taco chips from the chipper.. - those days are gone).
The highest my sensor has come back with was 11.5 but that was 2 hours after activating my first sensor and it was 5.4 an hour after that - with no food taken after the sensor was applied, so I'm kind of disregarding that reading.
I'd be interested in learning what others think are "spikes" and what readings one should be worried about, if for a prolonged time (say, over x mmol for x hours is bad, but x mmol two hours after eating is "normal").
From what I've read here and elsewhere, "spikes" in BG are expected and normal. But I wonder, what are "normal" spikes, and if so - when are those "spikes" normal? An hour after eating, 90 mins, 2 hours?
I've been put on 2 x 1000mg Metformin daily, for info (starting at 2 x 500mg for two weeks but that was before I started using the sensor).
I've set my sensor reader to "normal" being between 5 and 7 (as advised), and in the last 9 days I've been within this for 94% of the time, and that's measuring every hour (except when asleep, of course
From what I've gathered, most carbs are bad and sugar also (obviously?!) and I try to avoid that. Me being un-friendly towards vegetables and seafood doesn't help but I try to vary what I eat with these restrictions. Yet my BG doesn't change much.
However, being fond of my pints, I find it hard to stop drinking yet my BG doesn't seem to be much affected by it. I've read that taking alcohol will in fact lower your BG but for me I might go from 5-5.5 up to 7.5-8 after a first pint and then back to 5-5.5 after another hour yet still drinking in the same tempo (I might have a weekly pint "allowance" in one sitting...). At bed time it will still be around 5 and at wake-up time the next day the BG will still be around 5 (I might have something to eat before going to bed, like a fried egg or a few fish fingers (doesn't taste like fish!) but nothing major like it used to be, like - mmm - taco chips from the chipper.. - those days are gone).
The highest my sensor has come back with was 11.5 but that was 2 hours after activating my first sensor and it was 5.4 an hour after that - with no food taken after the sensor was applied, so I'm kind of disregarding that reading.
I'd be interested in learning what others think are "spikes" and what readings one should be worried about, if for a prolonged time (say, over x mmol for x hours is bad, but x mmol two hours after eating is "normal").