Got the Stelo

(Central Florida Bob ) #21

Two cliche’s are my only answer. They kind of contradict and yet reinforce each other.

  1. Half a measurement is better than no measurement. (I think it was originally "a half-assed measurement…)

and

  1. A man with two watches never knows what time it is.

I can see both of them here. If your only answer was the Stelo or the Keto Mojo, that’s what you’d use.

My side note is that the studies on rats and GLP-1 was in the range of 1 to 3 g/kg of body weight which puts me in the range of about 93 to 280 g of allulose per day, like I said before. I tried to weigh a teaspoon of allulose and had to dig out a scale I used for small stones (“rockhound” stuff). A measured tsp was 4.5 g. I’ve been having a rounded tsp a few times a day, but that’s got to be around 20 grams max. Not even 1/4 g/kg.

Is that 1 to 3 g/kg like medicines, where if you’re taking too little or too much it’s ineffective? Is it a waste of time to even try it?

(Bob M) #22

I had a good (quite large) decrease in hunger based on 2 tsp of allulose at lunch. That seems to be a transitory effect, however. Got it for a few weeks, but I no longer get that effect now, so I’m not sure what to say.

And of course, with human variability, it’s always hard to know how any one person reacts to things.

What I was hoping was that the 15% error in pin-prick measurements would be relatively consistently above, below, or around the Stelo measurement.

Let’s say my blood sugar is actually 100. That means that the pin-prick could range from 85-115. If the Stelo was “accurately off” by a certain amount, say reading 20 points too high, then it would read 120 every morning. The pin-prick readings would be consistently under it.

If the Stelo consistently read 10 points high, the pin-prick readings would be largely below the Stelo.

The issue I’m having is that the pin-prick readings are all over the place. In the last few days, they’ve been much higher than the Stelo’s in the morning, but when I had the official test, the pin-prick was lower and the Stelo was higher. I did put in a new sensor in a different arm, so maybe that’s an issue?

And my doctor has me taking Jardiance – not for diabetes per say but for the heart, which is supposed to reduce blood sugar and benefit HbA1c. Does it?

I have no idea, because I have no idea what my actual blood sugar is. I’m sure Jardiance has not been tested using keto people, so I don’t know what to expect. But it’s disappointing that I have two blood sugar sensors, and even with both of them, I have no idea what Jardiance is doing.

(Bob M) #23

Well, I’m taking Jardiance, which supposedly lowers blood sugar and increases ketones. The Stelo only goes to 70, and after that, it just says “below 70”. That’s what I got last night.

So, I took one pin prick on my Keto Mojo, and that was over 120. I figured that was wrong, washed my hands, pricked another finger, and got over 100, almost 110. What the ugh! I have no idea what’s going on.

I do believe my blood sugar is going down, because I was getting angry two nights ago. That’s why I stopped berberine – I was getting angry. I think that’s the sign for me of abnormally low blood sugar.

But If I can’t tell what my actual blood sugar is, it’s not helpful. I will likely order some strips for my other pin prick meters I have, as they were supposedly more accurate.

(KM) #24

I was going to suggest from your last post, it sounds like the keto mojo or its strips could be the issue. Curious to see if a different meter is more in line with the Stelo reading.

(Bob M) #25

I’m going to order strips for one of my old monitors. I have 3 old ones. I’m trying to remember which one was (supposedly) more accurate.

It’s also possible this particular arm/sensor is “bad”. I’m not sure. I’m assuming that even if the numbers are off, at least the trend should be ok. Switched to different raw milk, and this seems to cause even less of a blood sugar hit. Would like to verify this, if the sensor actually works.

It does seem as if Jardiance has made my ketones slightly higher. Instead of 0.2 or 0.3 mmol/l in the mornings, I will sometimes (not always) get 0.5 mmol/l. Not a huge difference, but something.

If ketones are going up, blood sugar should be going down. I just can’t figure out by how much.

(Bob M) #26

So, I replaced the Stelo sensor 4 days early, and put the new Stelo sensor in the other arm. The new Stelo sensor reads much, much higher than the old one and closer to what my Keto Mojo was reading this morning.

I also bought a Contour Next One, which is a supposedly improved version of the Contour Next. Supposedly, it was tested at within 8.5% of the real blood glucose value.

I had two Contour Next Ez and two Precision Xtras, but the nice thing about the Contour Next One is that you can test twice using the same strip, so you can get two readings if you think the first one is off.

If you do this, I recommend searching around. Amazon seemed to have the best price for strips + meter, until you realized they wanted $10 to ship the meter. I was able to buy the meter at a different location for $20 cheaper after shipping costs were included in both. The strips were still cheaper on Amazon, though, so I bought strips there.

#27

I used Freestyle Libre for 3 months and I had this kind of variance with different sensors. Some where all reading were 20 points lower than finger prick. Some where that particular sensor seemed all over the place. Many where in the middle of the night I would get super low reading (although I have read that happens when you lie on the sensor)