Please help me understand BG reading

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(Amanda) #1

A bit of my history:
I’ve been following the Keto WOE for about 5 and a half months now. I am down nearly 70 lbs, so I think that it is working well for me. As a nearly 39 yow (starting weight 335, cw 265), I feel like that is good progress, I have been dabbling with OMAD, 20:4 eating, and a few 30ish hour fasts. Haven’t really found my groove on that front yet.

I am on hour 19, planning to eat in about 2 hours. Anyways, I just decided to test my blood glucose (I thought I might start tracking it) and I got a reading of 13 mmol/L! :open_mouth: What the hell is going on? Should I ask my Dr. for a test to see if everything is okay the next time I’m in?

I had black coffee about 4 hours ago and have drunk about 8 cups of water so far today. Would this affect the results? Should I be concerned (I’m not, yet) or just curious?

(bulkbiker) #2

Wash your hands and retest… if you get a wacky reading like that its always worth doing another one just in case your finger was corrupted with something that effected the reading.

(Amanda) #3

I just retested and is says 12.7 mmol/L.

(bulkbiker) #4

Hmm that’s quite high are you feeling ok as illness does funny things to blood sugars… what brand of meter are you using?

(Carpe salata!) #5

Thats your first ever test? I would test over a few days and see how it rolls. 12.7 isn’t an emergency. But it shouldnt normally be that high especially on keto and especially having not eaten for ~20 hours.

I am interested to see the updates.

(Amanda) #6

I feel fine. I have been dealing with an infected tattoo, but have been off of the antibiotics for over a month now. I have been dealing with a runny nose as well, but I just attributed it to teaching first and second graders…

I’m using a OneTouch Ultra2. It’s older (I borrowed it off my mom, fresh lancents though).

ETA: I tested back in August and I it was 7.8

ETA2: Just looking at the testing strips… EXP 2014, would this make a difference?

(bulkbiker) #7

Its more the age of the strips they can go off… might be worth keeping an eye on… and getting an HbA1c next time you are at the docs… I might even say get one sooner rather than later…that will show an average of your bloods over the past 8-12 weeks so will give a better indication. I’m pretty sure they do those in Canada although they do seem to use single finger pricks to diagnose which is kind of odd…

(bulkbiker) #8

Cross posted… if strips have expired then throw them away… they’ll be useless…

(Amanda) #9

Just noticed that, thanks! I’ll be picking up some fresh ones the next time I’m out! :blush: Now if I could just find a face palm emoji!

(bulkbiker) #10

Don’t worry we’ve all done it…
Test strips are especially sensitive to storage conditions and age. You almost had me worried there!