Saturday, October 31, 2009

Does anyone understand blood sugar levels?

Hi everyone, I have been showing a few symptoms of diabetes lately, tired all the time, very thirsty, needing the bathroom more and during the night. A neightbour has the blood sugar monitor for her diabetes and she tested me.
Fisrt I hadnt eaten a lot just a couple of mouth fulls of Special K that morning which was 6 hours before. The reading was 5.6.
The second was 2 hours after I ate, the reding was 3.4.
Does anyone understand this?
She has only recently started using it so she is unsure of what it means.
Is it normal, diabetes or even hypoglycema?
Answer:
These readings are fine, but they only tell you what your blood sugar levels were at those particular points in time.

If you have symptoms of diabetes, and you do, then you need to get a glucose tolerance test done. This will involve fasting overnight, then having blood and urine readings regularly after being given a glucose meal.

You probably have nothing to worry about, but it would be a good idea to get checked for your own peace of mind. Also if you do have diabetes, or prediabetes, it is good to find out sooner rather than later. There are a lot of complications of diabetes that can be avoided if you know you have it.

I hope this helps, and wish you all the best.
normal blood sugar levels are between 90 - 120 or 130.

To learn about blood sugar levels google "diabetes".
You get 2 levels of dbs.! you need to see a doctor to determine if you must go on pills or injection.
2 If your overweiht and eat wrong food or not at all and then binge again,that can be cured by exercisi and a diet .Both you must see a doctor
Go to your doctors if you are worried. It could be a number of things. The readings you state are quite acceptable, but there are many things which could cause your symptoms.
I have recently been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Diabetic blood sugar after fasting for 8 hours is above 7 mmol. You should still get this checked out, but my GP said anything under 7 is normal. I have started on tablets and i check daily and it is coming down, day one was 17mmol and today it 9.7mmol. Hope this helps and good luck.

I dont know what the first answerer was on about, blood sugar of 90+ thats a lot of sugar, maybe he meant blood pressure
Those readings are fine for a non-diabetic, the second one is slightly low, but that is probably because you hadn't eaten much. Normal is anything under 7ish. You need to start worrying if it gets over 10 for more than a few readings. you could be thirsty %26 weeing for another reason so you need to see a doctor
Hello,

Right firstly to re-iterate some of these excellent replies those levels are fine - however, you should go to the doctors anyway because you are suffering symptoms that you need resolved and you need to find the reason. These particular symptoms could be indicative of other problems, and lets be honest you just want to get a good nights sleep!

Make an appointment

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