It's an O'Well, which I confess to having gotten from Amazon because the strips and lancet things are easily obtained there (and I may have mentioned... I hate shopping). The reviews were good. Two things make me fear it's right: it's consistent - if the first # is a bad # and I do it again, the 2nd # is always within 10 points of the first test. That, and the last time I had a fasting BS at the doc's office, I checked it with the meter before going in (checked it sitting in my car ). Two points difference. So all things considered, it's probably right, though my first *hope* is that it's off, by about 30 pts too highalliesmama4 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 01, 2020 12:22 pm It is not all about food. There is a pre-dawn hormonal rush. My diabetic nurse told me to have a snack around 9:00 PM consisting of cottage cheese and fruit. That seems to help me. However you cannot just have fruit since fruit raises your blood sugar. I can go to bed with my blood sugar being 87 and nothing to eat and it will soar during the night due to the hormonal thing. The cottage cheese is just about 1/4 c and a few slices of canned peaches (canned in juice no sugar) or a few small slices of my homegrown and cooked pears. My diabetes is genetic so I feel like I will be on medication the rest of my life but do work with getting things under control with diet as well. Have you tried small frequent meals like every two to three hours. When my husband was here I pretty much followed a time schedule for him ie breakfast was round 8:00 AM then lunch 12:00 noon Dinner usually 5:00 or 5:30 PM and then my snack at 9:00 PM. In between breakfast and lunch I would have a light snack of protein ie hard boiled egg or deviled egg, cheese same in the afternoon. Sounds good but I did cheat and go off of my diet from time to time and yet my A1c was always in the 7 and under range. Also if you are using a lot of gluten free products or to bake with they are very high glycemic. I use coconut or almond flour to bake with. They seem to be pretty good at not raising my blood sugar. I loved the gluten free hearty bread mix but found it caused my blood sugar to go up. So no longer using it. I might make some later when I get through the leaky gut diet.
What kind of meter do you have?
The thing that got me on the tear to find out what causes the issue is that in October they bumped my time-released metformin up to 2000mg/day. After 3 months of that, my A1C and fasting blood sugar were EXACTLY, this past Wednesday, what they were in October. So clearly extra metformin isn't doing squat.
The very idea of all the carbs involved in cottage cheese and canned peaches terrifies me but I'll try almost anything once, if it works YAY!! if not, DH likes cottage cheese and DS thinks canned peaches are second only to canned pineapple.
While the a.m. is bad, though, I can check it at 2 pm in the middle of a fasting day (so far just last Thursday, when my 2pm reading, after not having eaten since 7pm the previous night, was, I kid you not, 161 - even higher than the morning, even though all I had was water).
Biology is so interesting; everyone's 'mostly' the same but metabolic stuff... it's wild.
My poor DH, because of his engineering & physics background, thinks nearly purely in terms of thermodynamics (calories in < calories out = weight loss), or at least he has until recently, his mid-40s are more challenging when it comes to staying at weight (former athlete, he likes to stay in what was his 'weight class'), has watched my non-intake for years looking at the blood sugar and for a while there the weight gain and muttering, "that's NOT POSSIBLE." Oh yes it is, apparently, because the measurement apparatus does not lie. For a while there he kept telling me to change the batteries in the meter