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coleyd

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Hi

I'm just really confused. So I have been eating the sane breakfast for a week and today my body has a higher reading 2 hour pp

I do feel a bit headachey today but could it be lack of water ?

I was 5.4 then ate it then now 2 hour pp it's 7.6 . Why would it be fine then start giving me more spike all of a sudden ?
 
There are many things which affect BG.
Food is the obvious one but also time of day, month, year (which, in this case have not changed), illness, stress, drugs, exercise, weather, ...
Some times the change is obvious but not always. For this reasons, I do no react to a single unexpected BG reading but wait to see a trend.
 
Just to add, you say you are headachy and pain can affect bg. Try to make sure you do not become dehydrated but don't go overboard. Our bodies can sometimes surprise us so look for the patterns.
 
Thanks I did notice that I need to have a glass of water in the 2 hours period after it and also move around the flat a bit which I didn't do today as I'm having an off day (chronic fatigue syndrome ) I do feel warmer when my blood sugar goes up is that common ?
 
Warmer around the face I meant . My BP seemed ok today though
 
coleyd said:
Warmer around the face I meant . My BP seemed ok today though
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I tend to feel cold when my bg levels go up but we are all different. The trick is to note these details down so you can see over time how higher bg levels affect you as an individual. I take fewer notes now than I did at first because the patterns are emerging. It adds to my peace of mind. Hope you get over your poor day soon.
 
Thanks I have more bad days than good unfortunately. It's a chronic illness and I have had to for 7 years and it definitely must of contributed plot me developing the diabetes as I'm mostly house bound
 
My bs went to 4.2 at 3.5 hours later after breakfast is that bad or normal
 
Confusing it sure can be, especially with other health issues to complicate things. It doesn't help that the NHS can only cope with one issue at a time, funnelling you down an ever-narrowing tunnel of specialism to resolve it. By good fortune, however, my annual HbA1C blood test for diabetes over three years has also revealed the earliest possible stage of a form of blood cancer, for which I'm monitored every three months, thus providing me with four extra HbA1c's a year! And ironically according to the NHS heart risk (CVD) chart, I'm due to peg out in a year or two anyway from a condition (atrial fibrillation) for which I'm not even being monitored.
So all I do is take a small dose of aspirin every day and ask myself how I feel and what I'd like to do and eat. Especially eat .
I'm very lucky to be able to do this and I feel very well. I also remember that at 76 I'm entitled to feel a few aches and pains and sometimes a bit weary after gardening or shopping.
I've just plugged in a Freestyle Libre sensor showing my blood sugar level trundling along without any apparent connection to what I do or eat, but always within target and sometimes below.. It's a great consolation.
@coleyd -- just do your best with what you've learned about yourself and try not to worry.
 
coleyd said:
My bs went to 4.2 at 3.5 hours later after breakfast is that bad or normal
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That is normal.

As for spiking more than normal after your usual breakfast, that also is normal. No 2 meals are always identical, there are always some variations, and at breakfast time the liver dumps play a big part. If your levels were already rising when you started breakfast due to a liver dump, this rise, plus whatever breakfast did to you, will be "added together" so to speak. You don't know how much your liver interfered. It is just one of those things. Record it, move on, and look for trends.
 
I'm 75 and a fellow AF sufferer. I noticed you say you are taking aspirin. If that is with a view to lowering your risk of stroke due to AF, aspirin is not appropriate as it affects platelets and with AF it is fibrin that is the problem. Against fibrin one can take Warfarin or, much better imo, one of the New Oral Anti Coagulants. To take aspirin AND an NOAC is not advised. AF is not supposed in itself to be dangerous, but it can lead to forming clots which obviously are, hence the advice to take a blood "thinner".
 
@Alexandra100 Yes, thank you, the pharmacologist at my surgery and the haematology consultant I saw recently both confirmed your view and I'll jog my GP's memory about changing the prescription. The aspirin was prescribed originally by a former GP who said, "have a bucketful, they're cheap" and I don't think AF was taken into account. Just part of a general drive to keep old people's blood flowing.
 
coleyd said:
My bs went to 4.2 at 3.5 hours later after breakfast is that bad or normal
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I am about to give in and take a NOAC as I have been in AF since Saturday afternoon. Years ago I had occasionally recurring paroxysmal AF and when the episodes began to happen too often I began taking the lowest dose of Flecainide, which has given me some trouble-free years. I always resisted taking Warfarin, and no-one was willing to prescribe an NOAC, but now the science has moved on and NOACs are an accepted treatment. Taking an anti-coagulant has its own risks and inconveniences, but in my case now the risk of a blood clot has risen enough to convince me that I have to put up with them. However even now I could not put up with the dietary restrictions and frequent testing required by Warfarin. I have enough testing to do for my bg! I have chosen Apixaban as it has done the best in research, entailing fewer hospital visits than the other NOACs, causing fewer stomach problems, and allowing fewer strokes. I just hope my advisers see this my way! Good luck!
 
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