Hi I’m Sue and new here. Apparantly pre-diabetic 3 years ago but wasn‘t informed. Told recently as my Hbac1 was measured at 48, came down to 44 a month later on low carb diet. Following a low carb diet now and doing blood glucose measurements every few days. They had reduced to 5.7 mol/litre prior to eating and 7.6 post. Today they have risen to 6.1mmol/litre prior to eating with no change in diet, is this to be expected. Sorry a bit new to all of this.
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Welcome @Sueizz
There are many things that can affect our blood sugars.
You could be more stressed, not slept as well, feel warmer/colder, going down with a bug, done less exercise, ....
All of these things affect our levels.
And that is if our meters were 100% accurate. Given a 15% scope for error, 5.7 and 6.1 are pretty much the same thing.
There are many things that can affect our blood sugars.
You could be more stressed, not slept as well, feel warmer/colder, going down with a bug, done less exercise, ....
All of these things affect our levels.
And that is if our meters were 100% accurate. Given a 15% scope for error, 5.7 and 6.1 are pretty much the same thing.
Thank you, new to measuring etc.
Thank you thats helpful information, sorry to sound ignorant but new to this.
No need to apologise - we were all new and ignorant once and the other members of this forum have helped us fill in the gaps. Consider it a pay forward 🙂
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Welcome to the forum @Sueizz
Well done on your impressive start!
As @helli suggests, home BG meters have an allowable margin for error, and despite the illusion of decimal point accuracy there are lots of things that can affect the numbers both in terms of taking the measurement itself, and also in terms of a host of environmental and physiological factors which can affect your levels.
BG meters are amazing tools, but occasionally we have to recognise that our feed of data has some limitations, and looking for overall trends and direction of travel rather than isolated readings can be helpful.
Good luck, and let us know how things go 🙂
Well done on your impressive start!
As @helli suggests, home BG meters have an allowable margin for error, and despite the illusion of decimal point accuracy there are lots of things that can affect the numbers both in terms of taking the measurement itself, and also in terms of a host of environmental and physiological factors which can affect your levels.
BG meters are amazing tools, but occasionally we have to recognise that our feed of data has some limitations, and looking for overall trends and direction of travel rather than isolated readings can be helpful.
Good luck, and let us know how things go 🙂
Thank you, the chart is interesting and quite a large margin of error, I didn’t realise this, so that’s encouraging at least.
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