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puzzling BG levels
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Hi Lesley,
How soon after eating are you testing? To get a useful post-meal reading, it needs to be at least 2-3 hours after. If you are taking any meds for your diabetes I can't comment because no experience. If you are controlling it with diet, it's possible that your pancreas is still able to secrete adequate surges of insulin when you eat a meal, but can't function consistently at other times when you need a background amount of insulin circulating? One other thing to consider is the accuracy of the meter at higher BG levels - my son has sometimes repeated a test on a different finger and got a result a mmol or two different to the first.
How soon after eating are you testing? To get a useful post-meal reading, it needs to be at least 2-3 hours after. If you are taking any meds for your diabetes I can't comment because no experience. If you are controlling it with diet, it's possible that your pancreas is still able to secrete adequate surges of insulin when you eat a meal, but can't function consistently at other times when you need a background amount of insulin circulating? One other thing to consider is the accuracy of the meter at higher BG levels - my son has sometimes repeated a test on a different finger and got a result a mmol or two different to the first.
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