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Hallo
I signed up last year and only posted a few posts. I eat a non carb diet existing on a limited diet of homemade organic chicken broth...eggs, avocados and ocasional cheese. I have existed on this diet for 5 years due to dietary difficulties. I was considered pre diabetic 2 years ago and asked to lower carbs which I could not because I don't eat grains. I managed to keep my numbers down using an Accucheck reader usually between 4.9mmol and 6mmol. I have an occasional high spike of 7-8mmol for some reason. Over Xmas I ate some chocolate for a few days. I know I shouldn't but as I thought I was under control, exercising too I would be ok.
I did not sleep last night (no choccy) for 2 days...I felt terrible. But my blood suger was 6.4mmol around midnight and 5.4mmmmol in the morning. I though it would be higher.
Today I ate 2 eggs for brekky and later an avocado. 4 hours later my mmol reading was 8.9mmol which shocked me as I hadn't eaten anything to warrant it.
I cannot explain it.
My doctor wanted to reassure me that from a year of controlled normal readings I was ok. But not so I fear. Can anyone of you lovely people explain why this happens.
I have been in isolation since last March cos of my age so scared to visit the doctors surgery in person.
 
@NotPink 8.9 isn’t shocking. My advice would be to relax. Eat sensibly, keep testing, remember that meters have a margin of error, and don’t beat yourself up about having a small amount of chocolate. Your post made it sound like you thought that had caused your avocado/egg issue.
 
Awwwwe thank you. I forgot to mention I took a soluble paracetamol just before the high reading which contains sugar elements. And google searching said they can mess around with the readings...I know nothing. But thank you for your kindness. This site is such a reassuring place to be when you are scared.
 
If it makes you feel better @NotPink , people without diabetes sometimes get readings in the 8s and 9s and even sometimes higher. So I wouldn’t worry about an occasional reading like that. As I said, taking into account the meter’s 15% margin of error, your 8.9 might have been a 7.5 anyway.

If the paracetamol contributed at all, it would be more to do with the reason you took it than the paracetamol itself eg if you took it because you had a cold. Illness, stress and poor sleep can all put your blood sugar up.

Don’t worry about occasional readings like that. It’s more about the overall trend. It sounds like you’re doing well 🙂
 
Sorry to hear you have been getting stressed by your readings @NotPink - on the whole your BGs look great from what you’ve said.

I agree with @Inka that it’s important to recognise how variable non-D blood glucose can be - it’s easy to think that they spend all the time at a solid 5.5, but that’s simply not the case.

It is also not uncommon for people with diabetes to see a significant BG rise in the mornings either around dawn or just after getting out of bed (often called Dawn Phenomenon) where the liver releases stored glucose to ‘fire up the burners’, which mayngo some way to explain your 8.9?

It sounds like you have made some very worthwhile and BG friendly changes to your meal plan - so keep going. Hopefully your next HbA1c result will reflect your Drs opinion that things are going well.
 
Thank you for reassuring me and others too that this will help. It is so hard to maintain levels ...at best I don't always find things easy diet wise cos of other dietary issues that add to the restrictions... but knowing I try hard, like others do, is concerning when readings flounder. I shall take on board your comments and not worry so much. Thank you.
 
Hallo... For 2/3 days my legs from the knee down have felt like a numbish feeling. No changes made in diet or exercise but symptoms of frequent loo visits etc.
My BG levels are slightly higher than usual... up to between 6. and 7.00 plus mmol even after fasting. Sometimes I just don't get it.
I do worry about the numbness cos when you look it up online it says possible nerve damage.

I have a blood test result coming thru this week and hope to have a clearer picture of where I am.
Does diabetes take its toll even when you are applying all the right strategies?
 
With your BG levels being pretty good, I would be looking at another cause for the numbness in your legs. Perhaps a vitamin deficiency particularly as your diet is so restricted. I would suggest trying a vitamin B supplement as that is often lacking when grain products are removed from the diet and cause problems with nerves.

6s and 7s are still not bad readings (I would be pretty happy to wake up with those levels every morning) and if you have had a Covid vaccine recently, that may be the cause of slightly elevated levels. It sent some of us up into mid teens and my levels have been high since getting my first jab in Feb so try not to worry about these very slightly raised levels you are getting.
 
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With your BG levels being pretty good, I would be looking at another cause for the numbness in your legs. Perhaps a vitamin deficiency particularly as your diet is so restricted. I would suggest trying a vitamin B supplement as that is often lacking when grain products are removed from the diet and cause problems with nerves.

6s and 7s are still not bad readings (I would be pretty happy to wake up with those levels every morning) and if you have had a Covid vaccine recently, that may be the cause of slightly elevated levels. It sent some of us up into mid teens and my levels have been high since getting my first jab in Feb so try not to worry about these very slightly raised levels you are getting.
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Thank you. I did have a jab on 21st April. No other side effects. But a possibility as you say. I take a liquid form of B12 D3 folic acid and zinc most days. I know my readings are good compared to others but I must be sensitive to any slight rises in BG cos I tend to get symptoms so quickly if even slightly over. I was diagnosed as prediabetic when I had eaten no carbs for 3 years...did not understand that... anyway thank you for responding. And Happy Tuesday to you.
 
Welcome back @NotPink. 🙂 I think that reading was okay. You're gonna rise a bit whatever you eat, it's only normal. Just keep on as you are and try not to stress. Vary your diet if you can.
 
Were you checked for anaemia at diagnosis as that can cause an inflated HbA1c result I believe and might be the cause of your "at risk of diabetes" status.

You might be better trying a broad spectrum B complex supplement rather than just B12.
 
I have always bordered on anaemia...B complex might be better, as you say. Will definitely try some, thank you...
 
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