Would appreciate some advice re rising fasting blood sugar

[Jo123]

As per title I would really appreciate some advice, I am really worried.

I was diagnosed as prediabetic 6 years ago, I found this website, bought a meter and found what raised my blood sugar, which turned out to be carbs and have kept my levels normal ever since. My last hba1c was 32, my bmi is 19, to be honest it is a pain keeping weight on as I don't like to eat too much fat as it raised my trigs and ldl as well as my hdl.
So the last few days I have been taking my fasting levels as I was not feeling 100%, I don't test when eating now as I know what I can and can't eat generally.
Anyway the last few mornings I have been getting around 6.5 and this morning was 7.3. I will start testing when I eat again.
I am upset as I don't know what else I can do, I walk 5 miles everyday, I used to run and that did send my blood sugar up.
Any input welcome.

 

[urbanracer]

Are you saying first thing in the morning - before you've eaten anything - that your glucose levels are high?

When you say that you don't feel 100% , are you feeling ill, ? Illness can raise a persons sugar levels.

 

[ButtterflyLady]

As per title I would really appreciate some advice, I am really worried.

I was diagnosed as prediabetic 6 years ago, I found this website, bought a meter and found what raised my blood sugar, which turned out to be carbs and have kept my levels normal ever since. My last hba1c was 32, my bmi is 19, to be honest it is a pain keeping weight on as I don't like to eat too much fat as it raised my trigs and ldl as well as my hdl.
So the last few days I have been taking my fasting levels as I was not feeling 100%, I don't test when eating now as I know what I can and can't eat generally.
Anyway the last few mornings I have been getting around 6.5 and this morning was 7.3. I will start testing when I eat again.
I am upset as I don't know what else I can do, I walk 5 miles everyday, I used to run and that did send my blood sugar up.
Any input welcome.

Going by your other posts, it looks like your FBG has been creeping up over several weeks? Roughly how many grams of carbs are you eating each day? Are you sure that eating fat raised your trigs and LDL? (raised HDL is good). I have read about people here who found that LCHF reduced their trigs. People can have a low BMI and still have visceral fat which affects BG. I would look at ensuring my carbs were as low as possible, increasing my exercise, and possibly considering metformin if the levels don't come down.

 

[Jo123]

Are you saying first thing in the morning - before you've eaten anything - that your glucose levels are high?

When you say that you don't feel 100% , are feeling ill, ? Illness can raise a persons sugar levels.

That's interesting because I have earache which they don't think is an infection, but I am not so sure.

 

[Jo123]

Going by your other posts, it looks like your FBG has been creeping up over several weeks? Roughly how many grams of carbs are you eating each day? Are you sure that eating fat raised your trigs and LDL? (raised HDL is good). I have read about people here who found that LCHF reduced their trigs. People can have a low BMI and still have visceral fat which affects BG. I would look at ensuring my carbs were as low as possible, increasing my exercise, and possibly considering metformin if the levels don't come down.

No my trigs went up too I did post about it on here at the time and couldn't really find a reason for it, they were still within normal levels but went up from the previous readings. I am going to focus on cutting down my carbs as previously my readings have been so good thinking about it I may have been a bit more liberal.
Putting it all down does make me think my ears may be the problem as Urban Racer suggests.
The other thing that has gone through my head is that I may be type 1, my grandad developed type 1 in his fifties, but then I wouldn't have got a hba1c of 32?

 

[graj0]

Anyway the last few mornings I have been getting around 6.5 and this morning was 7.3. I will start testing when I eat again.
I am upset as I don't know what else I can do, I walk 5 miles everyday, I used to run and that did send my blood sugar up.
Any input welcome.

That's interesting, but I've read that strenuous exercise can trigger that when there's not enough insulin available. There was a discussion several years ago http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/why-do-blood-sugar-levels-rise-after-some-sport.20892/.

First thing in the morning readings can be higher, could be the liver correcting an overnight low by putting a bit more glucose into the blood.

Visceral fat can affect things http://www.diabetes.co.uk/body/visceral-fat.html, but with a BMI of 19, who knows? If you look at the two pictures on that page, I bet you don't look anything like the one on the right (ignoring gender).

 

[uart]

Hi Jo123, could you please briefly describe what your current diet is like. Would you describe it as low fat?

 

[Jo123]

Well at the moment my diet is a bit weird as we have had no kitchen for 8 weeks, hopefully all finished this week. However my blood sugar has been fine until this last week.
But for today, for breakfast two bits of 90% chocolate, lunch half a raw pepper, half an avocado and a large handful of almonds and big glass of unsweetened soya milk. Dinner tonight is grilled turkey breast with a large mixed salad, (no raw carrot or sweetcorn!) with liberal olive oil, another big glass of unsweetened soya milk and a large handful of walnuts.

I would describe it as medium fat, but because of my earlier experience of highish fat I am very nervous of increasing my fat too much.

 

[Jo123]

That's interesting, but I've read that strenuous exercise can trigger that when there's not enough insulin available. There was a discussion several years ago http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/why-do-blood-sugar-levels-rise-after-some-sport.20892/.

First thing in the morning readings can be higher, could be the liver correcting an overnight low by putting a bit more glucose into the blood.

Visceral fat can affect things http://www.diabetes.co.uk/body/visceral-fat.html, but with a BMI of 19, who knows? If you look at the two pictures on that page, I bet you don't look anything like the one on the right (ignoring gender).

Well I don't run anymore, knackered joints, just walk!
Before these higher reading I would get the odd 6 but not consistently high.
With the fat I just don't know.
I have had problems with earache for ages, I went to an ENT specialist last Tuesday who thought it was to do with my jaw, but my ear is painful I think I might go to the GP and get some antibiotics as I think (and hope) it may be an ear infection.

 

[Jo123]

OMG panic over! Got my husband who has his own meter, to check his bg on mine and his was way higher than on his own taken seconds before. So I opened a new put of strips and everything back to normal thank goodness. So relieved as I didn't know what to do. Also I went to gp and he thinks I have am Ear infection so on antibiotics.

Sorry for bothering people with the false alarm!