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

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LAR said:
Just a thought from my experience, I did a mini triathlon expecting my blood sugar to be REALLY low afterwards, when in fact the opposite was true, it doubled !! Then I tried less stressful exercise, just a casual walk, even as little as two miles and my blood sugar started to improve. I came to the conclusion too much exercise can put the body under stress, cortisol is released, and blood sugar goes up! I'm still active, but not manically now. Hope this helps
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before I damaged my arm I used to go swimming
My process was - 1 hr walk there , 1 hr swim for about a mile, 1 hr walk home
I notice that blood sugars improved for the first stages but during the walk home my blood sugars started to increase again. It happened a few times pretty consistently.
 
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10.1 this morning worst reading for a very long time. Hardly surprising after the week we've had, car breakdown, father in law passed away. High point a 50th birthday celebration but sadly we ended up in a Pizza restaurant. Carb over load. Hopefully things can only get better.
 
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4.7 or 86 mg/dl :eek:

I walked twice as much as usual yesterday-12 laps instead of 6, after leaving mom with a caregiver for a few hours-so less stress or more exercise-but I am not comfortable with lows-I like my fasting number to be a little higher.
Also tried a different breakfast cereal.
 
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LAR said:
Just a thought from my experience, I did a mini triathlon expecting my blood sugar to be REALLY low afterwards, when in fact the opposite was true, it doubled !! Then I tried less stressful exercise, just a casual walk, even as little as two miles and my blood sugar started to improve. I came to the conclusion too much exercise can put the body under stress, cortisol is released, and blood sugar goes up! I'm still active, but not manically now. Hope this helps
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thank you for a very useful answer.. yes maybe my body is just plain stressed , I am a sufferer of cronical stress so very possible and my excema is also quite bad at the moment..
 
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@Freema & @LAR - When the body is under Stress, Worry, Anxious or illness = Cortisol is released and this pushes up Blood Sugars. William :)
 
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Liam1955 said:
@Freema & @LAR - When the body is under Stress, Worry, Anxious or illness = Cortisol is released and this pushes up Blood Sugars. William :)
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yes but it is a hard nut to crack as I do wan´t to excercise a lot to get into the optimal shape and get the maximum insuline sensitivity in my mucles... when I am in maybe half a year in optimal shape and condition according to fitness , then I´ll relax a bit , not untill then even if my cortizol is high, which it has been most of my life if think....then I must low carb even more to get a better average of blood levels...all in all untill then
 
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Fasting blood AM was 14.4 by PM 16.5:bigtears: At the beginning of the month I had readings of 5.5 - 10.9 am and 5.6 - 11.6. For the last 2 weeks they have gone through the roof. medication was Humalin 1 20 units am & 26 pm, they're now 24 am & 30pm. I also take Metformin x4 and Gliclazide x4 daily. I've had some good advice from members, so it's just gathering all the facts together. Suffering from brain fog most of the time :confused: this could get rather interesting. Having multiple health issues ...... 'aint going to help either !!;)
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As I keep saying cold weather can also raise blood sugar.
 
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