I hope all goes well and your results reflect all your good work, I wouldn’t know what would be the best for you to do, my blood sugar rises during the morning regardless of whether I eat or not until lunchtime. Hopefully someone will have more constructive advice for you but I just wanted to wish you well xBreakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee.
Lunch: lamb roasted with rosemary and garlic, tiny roast potato and half an individual Yorkshire and mixed veg followed by SF Jelly and cream.
Mid afternoon: phd bar and black coffee.
Dinner: cold meat, cheese and salad buffet followed by one Jaffa cake.
Tomorrow is my blood test day, couldn’t get an early appt. it’s not til 10.40, but I want to fast to get an accurate triglyceride reading. Last time whilst fasting, my blood sugar kept rising, up to 6.3, I don’t get 6s these days so this was high for me. When I got home I had a coffee with cream and by lunch it was back down to normal. So what can I do to stop it rising, will walking put it up or down? I think it’ll take my mind off getting hungry which I’m sure I will be, but will it make me more hungry? Aargh I don’t know what to do for the best!
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee.
Lunch: lamb roasted with rosemary and garlic, tiny roast potato and half an individual Yorkshire and mixed veg followed by SF Jelly and cream.
Mid afternoon: phd bar and black coffee.
Dinner: cold meat, cheese and salad buffet followed by one Jaffa cake.
Tomorrow is my blood test day, couldn’t get an early appt. it’s not til 10.40, but I want to fast to get an accurate triglyceride reading. Last time whilst fasting, my blood sugar kept rising, up to 6.3, I don’t get 6s these days so this was high for me. When I got home I had a coffee with cream and by lunch it was back down to normal. So what can I do to stop it rising, will walking put it up or down? I think it’ll take my mind off getting hungry which I’m sure I will be, but will it make me more hungry? Aargh I don’t know what to do for the best!
I’m sure you have nothing to worry about and will pass with flying coloursThank @jayney27 and @DJC3 for your best wishes, it’s like the night before an exam isn’t it? When you’ve done all your revision and there’s nothing more you can do but go for the exam and then nervously wait for the results! Sometimes mine have appeared on line the very next day but last time they didn’t appear til after my review with the Dr. I hope they appear quickly this time as my GP appt isn’t til 10th August!
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee.
Lunch: lamb roasted with rosemary and garlic, tiny roast potato and half an individual Yorkshire and mixed veg followed by SF Jelly and cream.
Mid afternoon: phd bar and black coffee.
Dinner: cold meat, cheese and salad buffet followed by one Jaffa cake.
Tomorrow is my blood test day, couldn’t get an early appt. it’s not til 10.40, but I want to fast to get an accurate triglyceride reading. Last time whilst fasting, my blood sugar kept rising, up to 6.3, I don’t get 6s these days so this was high for me. When I got home I had a coffee with cream and by lunch it was back down to normal. So what can I do to stop it rising, will walking put it up or down? I think it’ll take my mind off getting hungry which I’m sure I will be, but will it make me more hungry? Aargh I don’t know what to do for the best!
Good luck with the bloods, Rachox. Personally, I wouldn't necessarily do anything to alter my routine, aside from fasting, obviously. It's one morning from many and at 6.3 unimportant in the scheme of things.
Hopefully, your bloods will be back quickly. I use the walk-in clinic at the local(ish - 30 mile round trip) for my bloods, because I can choose exactly when I go and be in and out in not time, from the clinic opening at 8am. (I usually have a Costa on my way to the M&S Food Hall for a trawl, then home), but the results are always super-fast. For example, I had blood drawn on Tuesday last week (thyroid function, Vit D and Bone Profile) at 8am, and my results were viewable by 4pm. That gets my big tick in the box!
The only time things have been much slower was when I had a massive raft of tests done (around 30 - yes, 30 - the Endo wanted a good look at everything). They came back over a few days, with the hormone ones taking a little longer than the basics.
Do you have any similar option you can use (although ideally a bit closer to hand!)?
Thanks for the advice. I’m in a city with a huge teaching hospital with a phlebotomy dept. but the stress of trying to park there would definitely put my blood sugars up! So far I managed to sleep in til 8 I usually wake at 7 so one hour less to get hungry! Blood sugar so far has only gone up from 4.8 to 5.2 in the hour since waking.
.... but parking up at around 06:50...
Everything I was depressed. I'm over it now.
Oh I just about understand that! Blood sugar peaked at 6.1 today, so better than the 6.3 it reached last time plus it was a much later appt so I’m happy. I didn’t go for a walk, I kept my routine as normal as you suggested. Off for my usual walk this afternoon.Ah. It should have said 07:50, but then again, that may not mean anything either
Oh I just about understand that! Blood sugar peaked at 6.1 today, so better than the 6.3 it reached last time plus it was a much later appt so I’m happy. I didn’t go for a walk, I kept my routine as normal as you suggested. Off for my usual walk this afternoon.
For me; I can't get into lots of jiggerypokery prior to A1cs. It is what it is, and even the "whilst we're at it, we might as well" ones we sometimes end up with when otherr bloods are drawn are fine by me. Who are we trying to cheat anyway? We know what we've done and how we've done it.
Fingers crossed for you.
I’ve just learnt from here that the triglyceride reading can be adversely affected by eating shortly before the test, so I fast even though they say at the surgery it doesn’t matter. Will be checking on line from tomorrow for results. She did just about everything today I think, so I may be back here asking help to interpret some of them!
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