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

flonvic said:
6.8 at 6am. Must get up earlier, might be better readings!
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Evening @florvic. 6.00 am seems pretty early to me.

As an alternative approach, have you considered @MissMuffett's challenge to stop eating after 7.00 pm? Meeting that 7.00 pm target has worked wonders for some of us.

‘Stop Eating After 7pm’ Challenge

Who will join me? I intend to do this for the rest of January- 10 days and hopefully I’ll have broken the habit by then and carry on. I‘m not hungry, I suspect I’m bored and it’s becoming a habit. So I thought if there were a few of us that struggle with this it would be good to record our...
www.diabetes.co.uk
 
6.2 at 7am. My pain reached an all time high yesterday. Id taken all the painkillers I could and still had sciatica radiating down to my ankle. My neighbour gave me a tiger balm patch which was lovely and soothing. I had to take half a nytol at midnight so now I feel hungover Roll on 1st July.

Have a lovely Tuesday everyone and hugs to those that would like one x
 
Thanks.I don't eat after 6.30 p.m
 
flonvic said:
Thanks.I don't eat after 6.30 p.m
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Have you tried waiting half an hour? Obvs only if you have time, but I noticed when I was doing the Libre that there is a big foot on the floor surge when I wake up/get up, which settles down once I’ve been up for a while, but still before breakfast. It’s annoying because it’s so dependent on when on that curve i do the test.
 
Omar51 said:
Happy Tuesday!
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Personally, timing is important for me. What time do I start fasting and what time do I end after 8-9 hrs. My FBG is just about the same for the last 2 months.
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Hi Omar51

Agreed, but I suppose it depends on the purpose of your FBG records. Testing as we wake is the simplest way to ensure the conditions pre check are as close to identical as humanly possible. The results then provide a useful benchmark for day to day comparison.

Our results if checking some time later will depend on what we were up to between getting out of bed and logging our FBG. When attempting a day to day comparison, we could be comparing apples and pears.
 
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