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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 2
Is everyone's waking average before or after taking medication?13.1 for me. Before taking metformin.
Is everyone's waking average before or after taking medication?13.1 for me. Before taking metformin.
Do you think you deserve a door for that maybe, or perhaps a knocker?
@ColinUK this has bought sunshine to me. Its made me smiley, its so joyful. Big hugs to you, you know we're always here.
I keep testing my finger bloods all morning hoping it's coming down. I'm just afraid to eat anything this morning. It's down to 10.1 at the moment since waking. Feeling so low at the moment. Have doctors Monday at 8am to check bloods and have a foot check.Is everyone's waking average before or after taking medication?
Congratulations! I have just been out to check my post box and I have got one of those letters too! As you say... Phew!Good news in today's post. Quote: "Your test results show that you have no diabetic retinopathy" PHEW!!
Where's the groan emoji when you need itSimilar maybe but not the same.
I’ve got others stored in a special case. It’s my stair case obviously.
Firstly, try testing before you get out of bed on a morning, as soon as you wake up as you may find this reading is appreciably lower. My BG used to rise by 5 or 6mmols on a morning after I got up, by the time I had got washed and dressed and having a coffee. Our liver starts pumping out glucose on a morning to give us energy to start the day. Sometimes it starts before we wake up but often it happens when you swing your legs out of bed and stand up. Eating something should signal to the liver to stop this process as you now have food to digest and release glucose, so with some people it can help to eat a low carb breakfast as soon as possible, or even just a snack like a few nuts or some cheese or cooked meat. Food hitting the stomach signals to the pancreas to release insulin and also messages to the liver to stop releasing that glucose as mentioned, so it can be counter productive for some people to skip breakfast. I would experiment with testing as soon as you wake up and also eating breakfast as soon as possible after getting up and see if you get better results.I keep testing my finger bloods all morning hoping it's coming down. I'm just afraid to eat anything this morning. It's down to 10.1 at the moment since waking. Feeling so low at the moment. Have doctors Monday at 8am to check bloods and have a foot check.
Thankyou so much. My first reading of 13.1 this morning was just when I woke but was up and had taken my blood pressure medication with a small amount of no sugar Vimto squash as I cannot drink just plain water. After taking my blood I then took my 1000mg metforminFirstly, try testing before you get out of bed on a morning, as soon as you wake up as you may find this reading is appreciably lower. My BG used to rise by 5 or 6mmols on a morning after I got up, by the time I had got washed and dressed and having a coffee. Our liver starts pumping out glucose on a morning to give us energy to start the day. Sometimes it starts before we wake up but often it happens when you swing your legs out of bed and stand up. Eating something should signal to the liver to stop this process as you now have food to digest and release glucose, so with some people it can help to eat a low carb breakfast as soon as possible, or even just a snack like a few nuts or some cheese or cooked meat. Food hitting the stomach signals to the pancreas to release insulin and also messages to the liver to stop releasing that glucose as mentioned, so it can be counter productive for some people to skip breakfast. I would experiment with testing as soon as you wake up and also eating breakfast as soon as possible after getting up and see if you get better results.