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Group 7-day waking average?

Morning all, 8.4, then 7.8 on an immediate retest with a different finger here. Seems an unduly harsh punishment after just one choccy digestive last night because 3.9 was too low to go to bed on.
 
Barbara W said:
Morning a 7.4 for me today, have my daughter and grandchildren arriving today for a long weekend and could do without this back ache 😡.

Congrats Ljc on your HS.

Couldn't agree more Bloden yesterday was beautiful, here in the East it's turning a shade cooler over the next few days :(
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Have a lovely weekend. Hope your back is better soon
 
Morning all.

7.4 here today - have stayed steady since 3am which is good after turns out forgetting to count the carbs in ale from beef and ale casserole meant a mini spike last night
 
Morning guys 🙂 4.8 for me on this rather chilly day, Bruce's parcel didn't turn up yesterday so I have yet another day of waiting in :(, wish he had never got Facebook and joined the darts swap page! Lol, hope everyone has a lovely day! :D x
 
Strange. This morning my wake up reading was 4.6. Had my bowl of All-Bran, Blueberries and Skimmed milk which has a carb content of 55g at 6am got up at 5.33.
Got to the office 8, hadn't had coffee yet took readings expecting to have risen or at the very best stayed ar 4.6 due to the Carbs at 2 hours. My reading had actually fallen to 4.3.
That has me puzzled.
 
Vince_UK said:
Strange. This morning my wake up reading was 4.6. Had my bowl of All-Bran, Blueberries and Skimmed milk which has a carb content of 55g at 6am got up at 5.33.
Got to the office 8, hadn't had coffee yet took readings expecting to have risen or at the very best stayed ar 4.6 due to the Carbs at 2 hours. My reading had actually fallen to 4.3.
That has me puzzled.
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Diabetes works in mysterious ways Vince ~ no offence meant but rather than question your excellent numbers, accept them and be thankful they're not like others scores who drive themselves batty trying to lower their bgls from double figures.
 
Vince_UK said:
Strange. This morning my wake up reading was 4.6. Had my bowl of All-Bran, Blueberries and Skimmed milk which has a carb content of 55g at 6am got up at 5.33.
Got to the office 8, hadn't had coffee yet took readings expecting to have risen or at the very best stayed ar 4.6 due to the Carbs at 2 hours. My reading had actually fallen to 4.3.
That has me puzzled.
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if you don't mind me asking, how do you get to the office? If you do a bit of walking that may be the reason 🙂 x
 
Kaylz said:
if you don't mind me asking, how do you get to the office? If you do a bit of walking that may be the reason 🙂 x
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Car a driver takes me. maybe I have to walk 300 meters to the car but that's it.
 
Vince_UK said:
Strange. This morning my wake up reading was 4.6. Had my bowl of All-Bran, Blueberries and Skimmed milk which has a carb content of 55g at 6am got up at 5.33.
Got to the office 8, hadn't had coffee yet took readings expecting to have risen or at the very best stayed ar 4.6 due to the Carbs at 2 hours. My reading had actually fallen to 4.3.
That has me puzzled.
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I'm pretty convinced your body can now cope very well with things Vince. Remember that all those numbers are perfectly fine and non-diabetic, so won't be causing any harm. Also remember that there can be a 10% difference in the accuracy of test strips, so the numbers you got are essentially the same (also blood is not entirely homogenous, so tests taken at the same time on different fingers, for example, may differ slightly. Just keep doing what you are doing and you will do fine 🙂
 
Vince_UK said:
Strange. This morning my wake up reading was 4.6. Had my bowl of All-Bran, Blueberries and Skimmed milk which has a carb content of 55g at 6am got up at 5.33.
Got to the office 8, hadn't had coffee yet took readings expecting to have risen or at the very best stayed ar 4.6 due to the Carbs at 2 hours. My reading had actually fallen to 4.3.
That has me puzzled.
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Which fingers did you use for your tests? I nearly always get lower readings from my right hand than my left. My theory is that, because I'm right handed, my muscles are better at taking up glucose in my dominant hand, so there's less left in my blood!
 
Thanks Northerner. THe nurse at the surgery told me that diabetes T2 is a progressive chronis
Northerner said:
I'm pretty convinced your body can now cope very well with things Vince. Remember that all those numbers are perfectly fine and non-diabetic, so won't be causing any harm. Also remember that there can be a 10% difference in the accuracy of test strips, so the numbers you got are essentially the same (also blood is not entirely homogenous, so tests taken at the same time on different fingers, for example, may differ slightly. Just keep doing what you are doing and you will do fine 🙂
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Good motivation Northener 🙂
 
Robin said:
Which fingers did you use for your tests? I nearly always get lower readings from my right hand than my left. My theory is that, because I'm right handed, my muscles are better at taking up glucose in my dominant hand, so there's less left in my blood!
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Right my Dominant one. I find it much easier usually but I took this from my left hand on both occasions.
 
Vince_UK said:
Strange. This morning my wake up reading was 4.6. Had my bowl of All-Bran, Blueberries and Skimmed milk which has a carb content of 55g at 6am got up at 5.33.
Got to the office 8, hadn't had coffee yet took readings expecting to have risen or at the very best stayed ar 4.6 due to the Carbs at 2 hours. My reading had actually fallen to 4.3.
That has me puzzled.
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You’re definitely a plastic diabetic Vince. Most non diabetics wouldn’t achieve those levels! :D
 
Vince_UK said:
Right my Dominant one. I find it much easier usually but I took this from my left hand on both occasions.
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I normally use my left pinkie ~ I always get a good flow of blood from it ~ if I'm testing again I'll use my right pinkie. If I want to re~test again then its back to my lefty.
 
Pinkies geet
wirralass said:
I normally use my left pinkie ~ I always get a good flow of blood from it ~ if I'm testing again I'll use my right pinkie. If I want to re~test again then its back to my lefty.
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Pinkies getting sore lol
 
Amigo said:
You’re definitely a plastic diabetic Vince. Most non diabetics wouldn’t achieve those levels! :D
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I have been called many things in my life Amigo but yours is a first lol
 
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