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Foods and carbs

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Just try and keep your carbs down, test to see how much you can manage without it affecting you and keep to that. If you’re overweight, go on a low carb diet and try and get your weight down.
 
What effects your blood sugar levels varies for each person but a general guide is to, cut back on sweet things, reduce your starchy carb intake, eat more leafy and low carb veggies, opt for berries rather than high carb fruits.
 
Can you explain what you mean by all different numbers?
What sort of range of numbers are you getting and when are you testing? Before food and 2 hours after food is recommended and your levels will rise quite sharply in the hour after eating carbohydrate rich foods.
BG levels are constantly changing and can even vary a bit from one finger to another, so unless you are getting silly numbers in the teens or 20s then you are looking more for general trends than specific readings.
It is really important to make sure your hands are clean before you test as a tiny speck or smear of sugar or fruit juice perhaps from eating an apple or from handling a jar of jam can really throw readings out.
 
Well at least you have the correct units mmols/L but struggling to work out how you are getting those readings. Anything above 33 usually just registers as Hi so 53.3 cannot be a reading. Did you set the time and date before you started. Were these readings (4 of them by the looks of things) taken one after the other? Were they taken from the same finger? Were your hands washed and dried before testing? Having them dry is as important as them being clean.
Which meter do you have?
 
I set the time and date right. The meter is called Sinocare l washed my hands and fingers with hand wash and used different fingers. What am l doing wrong
 
The 2.7 mmol could be from a damp finger.

Is it this Sinocare? I found it to be very inaccurate, it gave me weird readings too, Amazon gave me a refund and I got an SD Codefree instead.2ACA198D-087F-4917-9D65-09C1CC4541C5.png
 
It might be helpful to watch this video
in case you are doing something incorrect although the use of an alcohol wipe is unnecessary.....
...... but I have a feeling the unit may be faulty. Those readings make no sense at all as you say.

The SD Codefree is now marketed as the SD Gluco Navii or the Spirit Healthcare Tee 2 These are the 2 tried and tested meters here on the forum which we recommend for people who are self funding.
 
The 42 is in mmol/mol and is the result of an HbA1c test.

That test records the amount of glucose attached to red blood cells. Because red blood cells are renewed roughly every six to twelve weeks it is used as the average glucose level across that period. It makes it very good for monitoring you general health, but of little use in actually managing diabetes.

Because the tests you can do at home (in mmol/L) only measure your levels at a specific moment in time they cannot be used to judge your health in any meaningful way, but are very useful to help manage diabetes. That is why the two different systems are used.

There are online calculators that will convert an HbA1c result into mmol/L — and 42 mmol/mol is 7.0 mmol/L — but there is no practical value to the conversion. Because of the differences in what is being recorded you cannot compare it alongside your own readings.

But for an HbA1c a reading of 41 mmol/mol and under is healthy, 42 to 47 means you are pre-diabetes, and 48 or over would be diagnosed as diabetes.
 
The 42 is probably your Hba1c level, which is just one more than the top end of normal.
By cutting back on your intake of carbs you can - in all probability, lower it into normal again.
I have had readings of 42 for some years now - but I started at 91, which is a good bit higher and further into type two.
rather than mashed potato, I have mashed swede, I have low carb bread, very infrequently, a lot of salad stuff and low carb veges and stir fries, I eat all the meat, fish, sea food, eggs, cheese, and other low carb foods I want and in normal times I go out with some morris dancers, play the music for longsword and Maypole, which is good exercise.
I have a tee two meter from Spirit Healthcare - which seems to be cheap to run and gives consistent readings.
 
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