Ketones too high? First time Ketosis numbers

(Derek) #1

I’ve been doing nutritional ketosis for ~3 months, steadily monitoring blood ketones and glucose. I’ve dipped in and out two or three times due to travel weddings, etc, but can usually get back into ketosis fairly quickly (2-3) days. I started by using exogenous ketones typically substituting for my “lunch” meal. I weaned off the exogenous ketones a month or so ago. Within the last week or so my ketones have shot way up. IN the past the were in the .7-2.5 range when I was in good form and eating correctly. This past week they shot up with readings of 3.4- 5.8. I’ve also been exercising more so i imagine that is the cause of some of it. I test first thing in the am with the noted exceptions of a couple of designated PM readings below. Question is should I be concerned with my ketones being too high? If so how do i cool them off?

Here are the last few weeks of my numbers. FYI i’ve lost around 30lbs.

Date GL mg GLmm ket GKI
16-Nov 66 3.663 0.7 5.233
17-Nov 70 3.885 0.6 6.476
18-Nov 82 4.552 0.5 9.103
11/18/2017 pm 82 4.552 1.1 4.138
19-Nov 70 3.885 1.2 3.238
21-Nov 74 4.107 2.3 1.786
21-Nov 82 4.552 2.4 1.896
22-Nov 72 3.996 1.7 2.351
23-Nov 68 3.774 2.8 1.348
24-Nov 78 4.329 0.9 4.811
25-Nov 88 4.885 2.5 1.954
26-Nov 74 4.107 0.8 5.134
27-Nov 76 4.218 1.8 2.344
28-Nov 68 3.774 2.5 1.510
29-Nov 73 4.052 2.2 1.842
30-Nov 65 3.608 3.4 1.061
1-Dec 74 4.107 2.1 1.956
2-Dec 62 3.441 4.4 0.782
12/2 PM 70 3.885 5.8 0.670
3-Dec 65 3.608 4.5 0.802

#2

If you’re not a type 1 diabetic, I would not give it a second thought.

(Bunny) #3

Do you fast a lot?

Blood ketones fluctuate a lot too! You could probably test it again within a certain number of hours to benchmark for alarms? (expensive to do I know). Your blood becomes more acidic; the higher the number of blood ketones!

HYPOTHETICAL:

Just wondering if the subsequent (time gap?) use of exogenous ketones are throwing the endogenic symbiosis of ketones out of whack at a later time? Or you could be pre-diabetic?

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(Jacob Wagner) #4

I wouldn’t worry about it unless it goes above 7 or if you’re glucose goes above 300 while ketones are high. At that point you should see a doctor immediately to be evaluated for diabetic ketoacidosis. However, (in my non-professional limited experience) I have never heard of that happening to someone on a well formulated Ketogenic Diet.

–Jacob

Ketone levels too high?
(Bunny) #5

I agree, 7 or above are the magic numbers relative to glucose readings!

(VLC.MD) #6

Over 10 might be high.
You aren’t over 10.

Try to avoid exogenous ketones in the future. It seems they were holding you back.

(Derek) #7

Thanks for the affirmation. I don’t really fast beyond trying to go >12hrs between evening meal and breakfast. For the first several hours of each day I usually just have coffee and MCT or Ghee.

I’m not diabetic or pre diabetic that I’m aware of. I had a physical and blood work done with in the year and nothing presented there except pre hyper tensive which seems to have gotten better since I’ve been following a wfkd. The timing of the weening of exogenous ketones does really correspond with the increase in ketone level. What I have been doing that correlates is Hot Yoga every other day.