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Hi. I am new to this forum, and just wanted to understand more about diabetes. When I was pregnant (13 years ago) I was pre-diabetic. I have recently started monitoring my glucose levels to see how they are together with a low carb diet to help control my hormones during perimenopause.

I have had readings which were high, one was 7.1 mmol/l and another 6.8mmol/l.

Is this normal in the morning ?
thank you for any advice, Dx
 
If those readings are from finger pricks then YES totally normal.

Everyone's BG goes up and down routinely as a part of everyday living.

The guidance for confirmed T2s who are routinely monitoring their BG is to stay between 4-7; and for fully insulin dependent folk using CGM to be between 4-10. Both those upper limits are offered for a reason: to have preferable and achievable upper limits given their metabolic circumstances. Non diabetic folk may well routinely drop below 4 and above 10, but have the certainty that their non diabetic bodies will respond with glucose from their liver's glucose store or extra insulin accordingly - and almost certainly those non D folk will be blissfully unaware these responses are going on.
 
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If those readings are from finger pricks then YES totally normal.

Everyone's BG goes up and down routinely as a part of everyday living.

The guidance for confirmed T2s who are routinely monitoring their BG is to stay between 4-7; and for fully insulin dependent folk using CGM to be between 4-10. Both those upper limits are offered for a reason: to have preferable and achievable upper limits given their metabolic circumstances. Non diabetic folk may well routinely drop below 4 and above 10, but have the certainty that their non diabetic bodies will respond with glucose from their liver's glucose store or extra insulin accordingly - and almost certainly those non D folk will be blissfully unaware these responses are going on.
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Thank you so much, this is very helpful.
 
Welcome to the forum @dianeg

Glad you have a meter to be able to keep an eye on things. They can be very useful, but as someone was sharing on another thread earlier today, fingerstick results are rather at the mercy of a whole host of factors, and can show significant variability - so aren’t generally used for diagnostic purposes any more.

If you’d like a more stable picture of how your body has been managing glucose levels over the past 3-4 months you could request an HbA1c check from your GP surgery. If your glucose levels have regularly been straying into the ‘at risk of diabetes’ zone, your HbA1c will pick that up as part of a broader context of glucose levels.
 
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Welcome to the forum @dianeg

Glad you have a meter to be able to keep an eye on things. They can be very useful, but as someone was sharing on another thread earlier today, fingerstick results are rather at the mercy of a whole host of factors, and can show significant variability - so aren’t generally used for diagnostic purposes any more.

If you’d like a more stable picture of how your body has been managing glucose levels over the past 3-4 months you could request an HbA1c check from your GP surgery. If your glucose levels have regularly been straying into the ‘at risk of diabetes’ zone, your HbA1c will pick that up as part of a broader context of glucose levels.
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Thank you thats a very good idea. I will do that.
 
I perhaps could (should) have asked if - since you were at one time prediabetic - you routinely still get annual HbA1c annual test results. If so how are you doing recently?

Also, my layman initial thought was (if you wanted to be aware of a potential future D risk) try taking a look at the Freshwell project; this was originally put forward by a GP Surgery to help their patients in the absence of dependable information from various NHS websites. I had a quick glance at this out of simple curiosity earlier this year and felt it was a helpful sensible place to get what I think of as a "background wash", as well as sound advice if one has a D diagnosis.

I see @everydayupsanddowns is ahead of me.
 
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