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Erratic levels

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Alexl

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Newly diagnosed and having checked blood sugar levels today 8am - 91, 3pm-360, 5pm-270 is this normal?
 
Hiya, first let's convert that to mmol/L, let's see ...

That's 5.0, 20.0 and 15.0


Eeek 😱 covers it I think ....


What meds are you on, what did you eat, when did you eat it, did you test before you ate, what did you do today (physical activity), what advice have you had from medics?
 
Had lo sugar muesli for breakfast, piece of quiche for lunch, crab salad for t, 3 black coffee, 1 tea with little milk. Am taking 50mg /850Galvus Met Metformin/Metformina morning and night and 12ml Levimer insulin before bed. Walked 6km
 
How long have you been diagnosed? Only it takes approx 3 weeks for metformin to build up in your system to do its stuff properly.

If you've had longer than 3 weeks then something definitely needs increasing because apart from brekkie you appear to have had very few carbohydrates today. There would be some in the pastry round the quiche, unless it was crustless of course - but none at all in a crab salad.

So from what you've said and of course I don't know you and ain't medically qualified - maybe you'd benefit by adding a gliclazide (that's a drug which stimulates the pancreas to produce insulin) with meals containing carbs or even a mealtime, fast-acting insulin.

However to actually see what food (anything) is doing to your BG, you really need to test both before and after the meal. So was the 5 when you got up? and then the others were - when in relation to the meals?

Here is a link to the numbers you need to be aiming for at this stage

http://www.diabetes.org.uk/Guide-to-diabetes/Monitoring/Blood_glucose/Blood_glucose_targets/

Multiply those figures by 18 to convert them from mmol/L which we use in UK, to mg/dL used elsewhere. So 4.0 mmol/L = 72 mg/dL and so forth.


How old are you, are they certain you are T2?
 
How long have you been diagnosed? Only it takes approx 3 weeks for metformin to build up in your system to do its stuff properly.

If you've had longer than 3 weeks then something definitely needs increasing because apart from brekkie you appear to have had very few carbohydrates today. There would be some in the pastry round the quiche, unless it was crustless of course - but none at all in a crab salad.

So from what you've said and of course I don't know you and ain't medically qualified - maybe you'd benefit by adding a gliclazide (that's a drug which stimulates the pancreas to produce insulin) with meals containing carbs or even a mealtime, fast-acting insulin.

However to actually see what food (anything) is doing to your BG, you really need to test both before and after the meal. So was the 5 when you got up? and then the others were - when in relation to the meals?

Here is a link to the numbers you need to be aiming for at this stage

http://www.diabetes.org.uk/Guide-to-diabetes/Monitoring/Blood_glucose/Blood_glucose_targets/

Multiply those figures by 18 to convert them from mmol/L which we use in UK, to mg/dL used elsewhere. So 4.0 mmol/L = 72 mg/dL and so forth.


How old are you, are they certain you are T2?

I am 57 and diagnosed only 10 days ago, they are assuming I am type :2 as when I asked he said PROBABLY type 2. They have given me no particular advice other than don't eat fruits that produce juice ie oranges, grapes, don't eat bread, potatoes, rice, pasta. I am getting really confused as different web sites say different things, and do not get me wrong I know everyone is different and there is no single solution, the bit I can't understand is the huge difference. In blood sugar levels, I was 47 this morning or in uk approx under 3 but when I arrived back in uk today was 326 at 2pm but put that down to 3 glasses of red on the plane however I was still around same figure when testing about 30 mins ago without anything further to eat than on the plane and I only ate the beef, and some cheese.
Thanks for your help it's really appreciated, I will see my uk doc wh list I am here to see what he says but only a flying visit as back in Dubai next week.
Thanks again
 
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