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Hello, if this is your first venture into the D-zone (!) in any way, then this is an excellent place to be for information, encouragement, support and advice from those who have been living in the D-zone for a good while. (I'm pretty new myself).
One thing, as a newbie too, I found very very helpful was to get myself a glucose monitor off the Internet (under £20 but like razors, they make their money on the test strips you have to buy continually!).
Knowing I could test my BG levels before, after meals, fasting, exercise etc, is really helpful. It's both a warning, and a reassurance, and helps you explore just how the 'triangle' of eating/exercise/drawing on 'stored sugar' (body fat etc) interacts, and that helps one manage the whole situation.
There's huge expertise from the 'old hands' here, so you can ask any question and get a good answer from them.
One thing, as a newbie too, I found very very helpful was to get myself a glucose monitor off the Internet (under £20 but like razors, they make their money on the test strips you have to buy continually!).
Knowing I could test my BG levels before, after meals, fasting, exercise etc, is really helpful. It's both a warning, and a reassurance, and helps you explore just how the 'triangle' of eating/exercise/drawing on 'stored sugar' (body fat etc) interacts, and that helps one manage the whole situation.
There's huge expertise from the 'old hands' here, so you can ask any question and get a good answer from them.
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Welcome to the forum @Jules1961
Where did the numbers you quoted in your original post come from? Have you seen your Dr and been given an HbA1c check?
This is a way of measuring overall glucose concentrations during the preceding 3-4 months, and is the usual diagnostic check for diabetes. 2 readings above 47mmol/mol are generally seen as showing you have diabetes, while readings 42-47 show you are at increased risk of developing it.
The thrush and blurry vision along with weariness, fatigue and needing to drink/wee more are all common indicators too.
Hopefully they will resolve once you start getting your glucose levels back into a healthier range. 🙂
Where did the numbers you quoted in your original post come from? Have you seen your Dr and been given an HbA1c check?
This is a way of measuring overall glucose concentrations during the preceding 3-4 months, and is the usual diagnostic check for diabetes. 2 readings above 47mmol/mol are generally seen as showing you have diabetes, while readings 42-47 show you are at increased risk of developing it.
The thrush and blurry vision along with weariness, fatigue and needing to drink/wee more are all common indicators too.
Hopefully they will resolve once you start getting your glucose levels back into a healthier range. 🙂
Just to say that one of the things I've learnt here is that morning readings can be higher than one might think, given 'night starvation' (!) since the previous evening, because the body realises it's about to wake up and get going, goes and fetches some 'stored sugar' (stored as glycogen in the liver) (or even raids one's fat's stores?), and adds it to our blood, even though we haven't eaten anything since the night before.
It's called the Dawn Phenomenon, and can be exacerbated (I think I have this right?) by the FFOTF syndrome too (First Food on the Floor - ie, the moment you get up and active, yup, more sugar is helpfully added from store to energise you!)
It's called the Dawn Phenomenon, and can be exacerbated (I think I have this right?) by the FFOTF syndrome too (First Food on the Floor - ie, the moment you get up and active, yup, more sugar is helpfully added from store to energise you!)
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Dawn Phenomenon (DP) and Foot on the Floor (FOTF) are variations of the same effect. Part of the circadian rhythm where the body 'fires up the burners' for the day by releasing stored glucose.
For some people this happens during sleep in the early hours of the morning... and for others (I am one) the bump in BG only happens when you actually get out of bed.
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Whether it's me or you or R.D. flippin Lawrence - none of us can possibly stop the human body's primeval instincts.
trophywench
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I still work on the assumption that if a GP doesn't know how the human body works then we really ARE stuffed. So cross examine the person blithely telling you they want to do a fasting blood test and ask em what time they'll be coming to your house to wake you up and immediately test you then? (And how they propose getting in !)
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