Not reacting?

[Drummer]

I have berries - but I make a big bowl of gelatine, several spoonfuls plus a sugar free jelly for the colour and sweetness mostly, in a metal bowl which I put into a tray of hot water and stir to make sure it is all dissolved, as otherwise it gets a really stiff layer on the bottom. Once the liquid is clear enough to see the bottom of the bowl I remove it from the hot water and leave it for a little while too cool. I am going to add a bag of frozen berries - I get the four fruits from Lidl, but if I have some spare Greek yoghurt I add that, or some fresh cream - as long as it isn't going to go off before I have worked my way through the whole bowlful.
The gelatine is pure protein, and the yoghurt or cream provides fat - we do need fat to make some very essential things such as hormones and to repair nerves and cell membranes.
I have a Bamix mixer and sometimes I take some of the jelly and berries and beat them to a pulp to add back as a thickener. I usually use the largest strawberries for that as they can go a bit soggy if left whole.
The jelly stays fresh in the fridge and the strong jelly absorbs the juice from the fruit, and it makes barely a flicker on my blood glucose meter.

 

[Docb]

Hi @eddieb.

As many on the forum know I tend towards advising care when trying to interpret single finger prick readings. If you get an unexpected reading (be it unexpectedly high or unexpectedly low) then it is good idea to do a retest as a matter of routine. Sometime ago I tested all 10 digits one after the other to see what the variability might be and got a 95% confidence interval of +/- 1.5 or thereabouts. So, if a repeat of your wife's test of 18 gave a result within a couple of units of that number then the high level is probably real and should be reacted to. If a retest is very different, then you can count the unexpected reading to be an oddity and best ignored.

My own thought is that the large quantities of fruit in your wife's diet may have caused high blood glucose levels - I think it would produce a notable rise in my blood glucose levels - but you cannot be sure based on one result.

If you want to find out more, and your wife is happy with it, then do more tests over the next week or so varying test times through the day. Plot them out and see what it tells you. The results from your blood tests will also be informative.

My answer to your question :

* has anyone heard of someone not showing any affects when a high reading is found?"

Is yes, we have a few members who have found out they have high blood glucose levels without any real symptoms after routine blood tests. I think in the majority of those cases, the high levels have been found by high HbA1c levels and monitored with quite a bit of finger prick testing.

Hope things begin to clear when you speak to the nurse.

Sounds, like me, you are a carer which might add another dimension to things. But that is a whole different story.