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Strange results today - could it be the flu jab...

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Hi all,

My readings have been odd today and after reading some other posts I'm now wondering if it's the flu jab I had a couple of days ago.

Fasting this morning was 6.2, a little high but not too out of the ordinary.

Breakfast - Egg, bacon, mushroom, tomato

Lunch 12:30 - Beef stirfry (homemade with 1/2 tsp sugar, soy sauce, rice wine and veggies) and cauli rice. I've made this before and normally it doesn't affect me.

Snack 14:30 - one bite of my bf's peanut butter brownie :D

3 hour reading 6.8

I know this isn't horrendously high, but as I'm on a reduced carb diet, I have normally dropped to the mid 4s by late afternoon and have to have a couple of crackers to stop me having a hypo. The strange thing is that I had all the normal symptoms of going low.

I just tested again and am down to 4.8, 5 hours after the brownie bite, having eaten nothing else since...

I'll check a bit more regularly for the next day or so to see if my average is higher, I can't believe one bite of a brownie could cause an issue, so I'm inclined to blame the flu shot.

Anyone else seen an increase a few days after your shot?
 
My levels were definitely elevated for a couple of days after my jab, but are now back to normal 🙂
 
No, I had no ill effects at all but we all react differently I suppose. Hope all is back to normal with you soon.
 
Many thanks!

I'm now at 5.7 1 1/2 hours after dinner so maybe it was the brownie after all...
 
I could believe it of a brownie, even just one bite.

I had no bother from the flu jab either. I wonder if it promotes a rise in white blood cells (if that's what it does?) kick-starts the reaction to illness and causes a short rise in BG.

I know it can't actually infect you with anything, so it could only be a pseudo-reaction or coincidence.

But I think in this case, it was prob the brownie. 🙂

Rob
 
I had my flu jab yday morning at 9.20 played golf at 11 was 5.7, after golf at 4pm I was 6.0 and at 6pm was 19.9! 😱 I corrected and 2 hours later was still 13, corrected again 🙄 still 11 before bed and hypo'd at 3 am! :( ...been fine today 🙂
 
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