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Nwmo | I was going to say the trend is mostly what I'm looking at. I am eating something and then watching the blood glucose trend. The wife and I had celebrated our 16 year anniversary this weekend by going to a barbecue joint and a movie with pop corn and frozen custard after that. I don't normally eat any of that kind of stuff but I was curious to see what my numbers would be. Glucose went up to about 150 in the early morning hours after I had gone to sleep for a couple of hours, about 4 hours after the icecream. It surprised me a little how long it took and I never would have been able to see that with finger sticks because I'm not going to stay up all night doing that nor have I ever seen anything stating it would take that long to show up.
I use this as a tool to see what causes my blood glucose to raise. The end goal is to keep insulin low so I can continue to lose weight, the problem is insulin tests are notorious for being very fickle. All we are left with is watching blood glucose and figuring the little bumps on the trend are causing some insulin release and the huge spikes are causing bigger insulin dumps and the massive spikes of glucose are instances where your insulin is being overrun with excess glucose.
All that being said finger sticks have not been consistent for me, I can stick my finger one time take 2 blood samples and get results 15 points different. | |
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Stelo continuous glucose monitor
