Nocturnal hypoglycemia CGM

#21

Actually it may depend. The point of a CGM for someone who is not diabetic, is to see what is happening over an extended period, how quickly your BG changes after you eat, early in the morning and so on. In addition, you can see what triggers you, whether you have a dawn effect which has very little to do with what you ate. Or in the case of OP, where his BG is going at night. For example, for one person having a few strawberries, lean chicken by itself or artificial sugar of some kind will have no effect, this is not the case for everyone. Especially if you are prediabetic or have something else going on. Also you can see how you react to exercise and so on. Companies like Supersapiens are based on the idea that someone who is already exercising and eating well can see what they react to even if they are presumably perfectly healthy

(Bob M) #22

All of those things are true.

Additionally, I learned:

  • popcorn has no blood sugar effect
  • salsa seems to have no blood sugar effect
  • “safe” soups ordered from Asian restaurants might cause very high blood sugar
  • exercise causes a blood sugar increase
  • working on the house all day causes a blood sugar increase
  • does my yogurt/coconut flakes/protein/some chocolate do anything? (Never ate this back then.)

I’ve been eating a TKD, and it would be interesting to see what that does.

I’m also not sure the scale I was using allowed me to see such dips or small peaks. It would be interesting to test again using the newer software.

I will be one of the first people in line when they come out with a watch with integrated blood sugar.

Now, what we also need is a pin-prick insulin monitor, with strips that are $1/each. That would be even more useful.

Edit: I guess that last bullet point should be in the “things I’d like to test”, not the things I found out.

I also compared my average blood sugar curves over the course of 16 months, and they were basically the same.