Why is my reading so high?

[lynbrown]

I have type 2 diabetes and take insulin and metformin in the morning. Today, after breakfast, ( weetabix, prunes, tea and brown toast) I had a 30 min walk and a trip round the shops. When I got home, my blood was 17.3, far too high. What can I do?

[Sqad]

Retest it.

[Rodge2]

Is your testing finger absolutely free of anything that could influence the reading? i.e. tiny sugar particles. Are you coming down with a cold or other infection? That can affect your blood glucose. Is your machine working ok? There are usually fluids provided to test it is providing true readings.

[classylady60]

Might even be the prunes as I know sometimes they can give a high ready but really when you've exercised it shouldn't naturally be as high as that. Testing again as Sqad said and testing the meter too might help.

[bobbie22]

Did you test it before breakfast. ? sometimes mine is unaccountably high in the morning when I get up

[Sqad]

bobbie...that is quite common and the answer is very complicated............Google................
."
the Dawn Phenomenon in Diabetes" and that will save me a lot of typing ;-)

[classylady60]

I have heard it is something to do with kidneys if readings are unaccountably high in the morning, will have to read the info sqad has given later to see what that says.

[bobbie22]

Thanks sqad. I will do that.

[bobbie22]

Hi sqad. It would have been a lot of typing. Its very interesting, and I did not know any of that. should I check with my clinic nurse. I will seed her next week for HBA1C test

[looobylooo]

hi lyn

as sqad says it could be something to do with the dawn phenomonen, so what was your reading before you ate your breakfast?

also, there was probably too many carbohydrates in that one meal -
the weetabix is 30g carbs per 30g serving.
also remember theres carbs in milk too, about 11g in 250ml, and did you have any sugar on them?
toast has an average of 15g carbs per slice
(how many of each did you have? and did you just have butter or did you have jam on your toast?)
what was the portion size of the prunes? theyre 8g carbs per 25g, so not too bad.

soooo, if you tot up the approximate amount of carbs you had, that might be the answer to the high reading. (can you let us know if you get to read this?)
it would be best if you had either the cereal OR the toast. having both isnt really ideal when trying to control blood sugar levels.

remember, more carbs = more insulin = more weight.

l

[Sqad]

bobbie......Well, you can have a word with the nurse, but if your HbA1c comes back within normal limits, then i wouldn't worry too much about the morning reading, particularly if you feel well.