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What was your fasting blood glucose? (with some chat)

Treat yourself to a pedometer Daisy and see if the variances relate to your activity levels.
Stress could be another factor.
I don't think there are many of us who are not surprised some mornings and think we have cracked it and then a high reading seems to come from nowhere. It is not an exact science.
 
Activity levels in both cases virtually none :roll: as I take a long time to get going in the mornings but stress could well be a factor. It's Saturday today :) so perhaps that explains it.
Thank you Catherine :)
 
6.4 then 6.2 two hours after breakfast.
 
6.3 but quite pleased with that, before bed I was 4.2 so had a small glass of orange juice, not usually that low before bed so must have over estimated my chinese take-away! :)

Nigel
 
This morning was 3.7 :shock: :shock: Home having lunch now after another gruelling 4 hours Census delivering. I rekon another day and a half and I will be done.
 
6.7 fasting
6.4 two hours post-breakfast
 
Here's today's figures which I am happy with:

Fasting 5.9
Breakfast joghurt and raspberries
@ 2hr30 min 6.0
 
I'm still hiding from this thread :lol:

But for now I'll report a couple of recent morning fasting readings 7.1 and 7.4

(better than the 8.5 -10 I had a few weeks ago.) Not really doing anything that differently to be honest, just continuing to watch portions and staying away from starchy carbs.

Also if I'm doing exercise in the evening I have just a bit of protein only, egg/chicken/cottagecheese/greekyoghurt afterwards and plenty water
(this has stopped the awful high night readings I used to get :D ).
 
Good morning :)

I had 5.9 fasting and 6.2 @ 2 hours - am quite happy with that. Raspberries and joghurt for breakfast. No stress today as it's a bank holiday here. Lovely sunny weather too :)
 
Not so good this morning.

7.0 fasting

8.0 two hours post-breakfast despite a brisk walk. I went back into work for the first time in 7 weeks this morning and was a bit stressed, so maybe that contributed to it.
 
Fasting 5.8
@2hours 6.7
I have discovered that my morning levels are better when I can get up when I wake up rather than being woken up in the middle of the night by the radio alarm. This is from looking at several weeks' levels.
 
7.5 fasting
6.2 two hours post-breakfast
 
4.6 for me this morning... got an eye scan Thursday so fingers crossed I have been a good lad and there is no further damage done
 
6.1 today. lowest ever was 4.8
- last few days was between 7 and 8. Though I am moving my meal times back to about 6pm as i think eating later has a contributory factor.
 
5.3 at 06:30 yesterday;
5.4 at 08:00 today.

I've been eating a bit more carb recently, and I'm off the nortryptilene now, which may account for the tiny rise when compared with the previous few weeks.

I was going to switch from my Freestyle Lite to my Bayer Contour meter for August, to save on prescription strips, but the Contour said 6.4 yesterday from the same drop of blood that gave me 5.3 on the Freestyle; and yet at 17:30, they were exactly the same from the same drop. I can't cope with that, so I'm going to stick to the Freestyle!

Viv 8)
 
viviennem said:
I was going to switch from my Freestyle Lite to my Bayer Contour meter for August, to save on prescription strips, but the Contour said 6.4 yesterday from the same drop of blood that gave me 5.3 on the Freestyle; and yet at 17:30, they were exactly the same from the same drop. I can't cope with that, so I'm going to stick to the Freestyle!
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Yes. This is exactly the right way to do it. Like when you weigh yourself twice and get different results, the lowest weight is always the right one. :wink:
 
I couldn't agree more, BF! But whole blood meters like the contour are supposed to give lower readings than plasma-calibrated meters like the Freestyle, which is why I couldn't get my head round it at 06:30 :shock:

Sorry, forum monitor - end of thread diversion! :oops:

Viv 8)
 
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