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

good morning all :)

4.3 today

Thank you all for your kind comments on my latest results, I'm feeling really pleased (and lucky), myself, it's more confirmation that a LCHF WoE is the way to go :joyful:

it's chilly here this morning 7'C outside but it's looking bright. Got some mowing done yesterday but probably indoors all day today volunteering.

Have a good day everyone :)
 
Gemmas85 said:
Can I have some advice please. I haven't been diagnosed yet. I have P.C.O.S which can cause insulin resistance. I have been having 'Funny turns' so have started testing my blood sugars first thing in the morning for a couple of weeks and they are usually between 6 and 8. Do you think I have enough evidence to go to the drs and say that i think this is part of it. Yesterday 7.5 today 6.7 I'm unsure what should be normal.
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Hi . I'm sure someone will come along in a bit and tell you more than me but those numbers are a little higher than what most people would consider "normal" fasting numbers. ie numbers taken as soon as you get out of bed in the morning. Do please take a look at info on this site for newly diagnosed its well worth a read,,,, good luck with it all and hopefully someone will fill you in with more info soon...
 
Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and all fight the evil lord diabetes except politicians may the expense fiddling etc , as I was saying may they stew in high blood sugars. Now I never said I was nice did I.

An understandable 8.7 this morning.

Well folks have a good day, I believe all the kiddies are back in school so the Zimmer frame brigade will be out terrorising the streets, now where did I leave my bus pass ?
 
Gemmas85 said:
Can I have some advice please. I haven't been diagnosed yet. I have P.C.O.S which can cause insulin resistance. I have been having 'Funny turns' so have started testing my blood sugars first thing in the morning for a couple of weeks and they are usually between 6 and 8. Do you think I have enough evidence to go to the drs and say that i think this is part of it. Yesterday 7.5 today 6.7 I'm unsure what should be normal.
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Sorry to read the above. The only advice I can offer is see your doctor, not a diabetic nurse.
Have a read around the forum and site lots of useful stuff.
Good luck
 
Merrylizard1314 said:
Fbg this a.m. 4.1 ketones 3.6
It seems interesting to me that many GPs still claim ignorance of best ways to treat T2D when it has been increasing in population numbers for so many years. I am wondering why there is not an intervention in place to increase their understanding of the mechanisms involved. Or why most seem content to go along with parroting advice that really is not good, instead of undertaking their own research. I often give my GP printouts of interesting research findings and he has changed his attitude from .dire warnings of dangerous outcomes when I have made experiments, to almost encouragement when Seeing the results.
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I must confess I avoid seeing my doctor if at all possible. I have given a lot of info to the diabetic nurse over the years. On the last meeting she said she didnt understand it and gave it to her husband ....sigh.... Maybe I should try the tactic on my doc instead
 
OrsonKartt said:
Hi and thanks so much. Your code didnt work but it didnt take me too long to find one that did. For anyone reading this and interested the code is : HEALTHTRACK
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Pleased you found one it makes it much cheaper you do get a gps report with your results all on following day after posting - well I did both times put in post one day and results and report online by following afternoon.
 
Hope everyone has good day today I’m planning day long walk once sorted out some stuff first
4.9 bg
Hoping rain stays away till get back!
Edit got forecast wrong - rain is imminent and friend keen on coffee instead ! Think I may have to give in and drink coffee with friends this am and then work this afternoon! I’m lucky as flexible with my work and always happier if can do when weather bad! Don’t like been stuck indoors with PC.
 
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geefull said:
OK here we go :D

Latest Results from my DN visit earlier today.

HbA1c is 29 (4.8%) - up a little as expected because of weight stabilisation but I'm pretty happy, it was 27 last time :)

total cholesterol - 4.6 mmol/L
Triglycerides - 0.6
HDL - 1.4
Calculated LDL - 2.9
Non HDL cholesterol 3.2

Sodium/Potassium/Urea/Creatinine all within normal range.
Chloride was 109 showing high against the range 95-108 but, given the other results, the nurse says not worrying because probably a touch of dehydration after fasting.
eGFR >90 (normal)

All toes suitably ticklish ;)

weight 68.2Kg fully dressed.

BP 110/72

Nurse was very pleased and says she wished she had more like me :hilarious: apparently I'm an inspiration.:singing:

I hadn't seen this particular nurse before and we had a good conversation about me doing LCHF and the benefits, she asked intelligent questions and seemed fairly open to the idea.

I'm really pleased I've managed to keep my weight and BG fairly stable and managed to push my HDL up a bit. Couldn't have done it without LCHF and the support of you friendly people, so thank you all :)

That's 2 years of non diabetic HbA1c's, so in celebration I'll change my description to 'in remission'
Just a urine sample to provide now. Next test in 6 months.
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Wow well done you are amazing
 
JohnEGreen said:
Every time a doctor told you not to test you believed it? I don't think so, so what was that if it wasn't hogwash?.
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No doctor or nurse ever told me not to test - I wouldn't want to make generalisations and disparage a whole profession or exonerate bad examples. Guess I was fortunate then.
 
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alf_Josiah said:
Sorry, but on one or several occasions qualified medical practitioners have tried that approach with me when the are afraid to admit I don't know. I check and recheck if I didn't I would be dead. Blunt but true.
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Your experience of the medical profession seems to have been less happy than mine. I have no reason to doubt your experience but apparently mine may be unusual.
Anyhow, my meter showed 5.4 which is just what that meter showed at that time and nothing more useful.
 
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Morning everyone 4.6 today probably won’t be posting till later tommorow as I’m going to Warrington to see my big brother and his girlfriend we are doing this to celebrate my little brothers birthday which was on Monday we are staying in Warrington until Sunday afternoon so I have to get myself packed :) have a good day everyone
 
Morning All. 6.4 today. Sigh.......
@geefull your latest results are amazing, stuff of dreams for me. Can I enquire how many carbs/day and do you do any fasting? I need to do something different if I am to avoid insulin.
@Cumberland sorry about the vein business. I would look on it as an extra week to get BG low but thats just me.
Have a good day everyone.
 
Morning all. 6.2 this morning at 9.05am, taken 5 mins after a light breakfast so could have been a bit lower before eating? Cumberland: I always go to a phlebotomist at our local clinic for my blood tests now as the nurses at the GP's surgery always struggle to find a blood vessel.:arghh: I've never have any problem at the clinic. They take bloods every few minutes so have much more experience. Hope all goes well for you. :)
 
Good morning all.

@geefull -- Congrats, wonderful results. You are a star.

Only having one meal a day doesn't really seem to work for me -- ate at 2 p.m. yesterday and then nothing thereafter, blood sugars were about 1 mmol higher than usual in the evening and night. Could this be because of cortisol?

Anyway, blood sugars were 5.2 this morning.
 
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