KennyMillar
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Hi. I am a newbie. I do not currently have diabetes, but the online calculator on this site gave me a score of 28 (High risk).
For the past few months I've been feeling rubbish - not really bad, just not great.
I'm getting lightheaded, dizzy, nausious etc.
Initially I thought I was lactose intollerant due to being really ill after drinking a milkshake (happened twice, 6 months apart). I cut out as much lactose as I could, but it hasn't helped.
So I was keeping an eye on my blood pressure, and it seems OK. I already take blood pressure medication. (Zemtard 240)
I saw a prescribing nurse (could not get a doctor appointment) and was told it's most likely benign vertigo. She gave me some tablets for the nausea.
I still feel rubbish, and get periods where I feel like I am going to pass out, accompanied by blurry vision, so someone told me to keep an eye on my blood glucose levels. So I've been doing that, but I have no idea really what the numbers mean, or whether they are good or bad. Googling seems like a bad idea, and gives me confusing results. So I'm here to learn about the risk factors and hopefully make sense of the numbers.
For the past week I've been taking finger-prick tests with a glucose meter about 4 times a day. [1]Before breakfast, [2]before lunch, [3]2 hours after lunch and [4]before bed. They are roughly the same every day. They are (approx):
[1] Before breakfast about 6.5 every day
[2] Before lunch about 7.0 every day
[3] 2 hours after lunch about 9.0 each day
[4] Before bed about 9.9 each day
The lowest reading I've had in the past week was 5.5 and the highest was 10.1
My blood test machine says my 7-day average is 7.8
Of course my dizzyness might have nothing at all to do with glucose, I'm just trying to make sens of it all!
For the past few months I've been feeling rubbish - not really bad, just not great.
I'm getting lightheaded, dizzy, nausious etc.
Initially I thought I was lactose intollerant due to being really ill after drinking a milkshake (happened twice, 6 months apart). I cut out as much lactose as I could, but it hasn't helped.
So I was keeping an eye on my blood pressure, and it seems OK. I already take blood pressure medication. (Zemtard 240)
I saw a prescribing nurse (could not get a doctor appointment) and was told it's most likely benign vertigo. She gave me some tablets for the nausea.
I still feel rubbish, and get periods where I feel like I am going to pass out, accompanied by blurry vision, so someone told me to keep an eye on my blood glucose levels. So I've been doing that, but I have no idea really what the numbers mean, or whether they are good or bad. Googling seems like a bad idea, and gives me confusing results. So I'm here to learn about the risk factors and hopefully make sense of the numbers.
For the past week I've been taking finger-prick tests with a glucose meter about 4 times a day. [1]Before breakfast, [2]before lunch, [3]2 hours after lunch and [4]before bed. They are roughly the same every day. They are (approx):
[1] Before breakfast about 6.5 every day
[2] Before lunch about 7.0 every day
[3] 2 hours after lunch about 9.0 each day
[4] Before bed about 9.9 each day
The lowest reading I've had in the past week was 5.5 and the highest was 10.1
My blood test machine says my 7-day average is 7.8
Of course my dizzyness might have nothing at all to do with glucose, I'm just trying to make sens of it all!