FASTING NUMBERS ...

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Registered: 08-03-2007
FASTING NUMBERS ...
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Sun, 08-05-2007 - 1:50pm

Ok ladies ... I was just wondering how everyone does here in the mornings with there fasting blood suger so if I am not stepping on any toes here ... I think it would be intresting to see how all of us are doing and maybe if we have HIGH NUMBERS we can - offer some support to those who need it so just post your number & the time U had the reading at !!

Sunday ... August 5th - 5:30 am } 103

So ... who will be next ?

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Registered: 08-21-2007
Tue, 08-21-2007 - 10:30am
Tuesday, August 21........9:00AM......132
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Tue, 08-21-2007 - 10:41am
Fasting numbers on August 21st @9:05 a.m. } 128
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Tue, 08-21-2007 - 11:06am
I need help with keeping my numbers down. I guess I need diabetic buddy. I am on a clinical trail for an inhaled insulin and I just haven't been able to keep the numbers down like when I was on 3 shots of Apidra and Lantus at night. 132 this morning was good for me. Some mornings it's so far over 200 that it scares me. I haven't been excercising, but I know I need to and I just haven't had the energy to get started. I have thoughts of having Lap-Band surgery because I hear that I could probably get off of all medications if I did. The problem is, the insurance does not want to pay for LB, but they will pay for Gastric Bypass!!! How stupid is that??? I am so frustrated!
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Tue, 08-21-2007 - 11:46am

I am sure you are being monitored with this clinical trial.


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Tue, 08-21-2007 - 11:59am
Thanks for replying! I go in to see the doctor every 3 months. They have increased the amount of inhaled insulin I am on to the max limit. I inhale three vials of powdered insulin before each meal and then I take a 65 unit shot of lantus before bedtime. I know it is all about carbs. Carbs increase your blood sugars. The more carbs, the high your numbers!
I will be on this study for another 9 months. Have been on it for the past 6 months. I know it will work, because I seen my numbers go down, but now they are back up again and I just haven't been able to take control and change them. My nurse is trying to work with me and wants me to excerise but my energy levels have hit bottom. I am on my way to the breathing test lab now for part of this study. It checks to make sure I am inhaling and exhaling enough. I will write more later.
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Tue, 08-21-2007 - 1:16pm
Hi there,
I just wanted to add some information I had recently received from my nutritionist. It's about Blood sugar readings being high in the early morning and then lowering later in the day. I think it's called Dawn Phenomenon. Anyway, many people do have higher readings early in the day. So I would be wary of adjusting insulin to these readings.
Years ago, I got a blood pressure monitor and was checking early in the morning. I was getting very concerned because the numbers were so high.
Then I read that blood pressure is supposed to be higher in the morning. It's what helps you wake up from slumber.
so my suspicion is that a lot of functions happen in the a.m. just to get these bodies started each day.
I hope yours is going great.
by the by....my reading this a.m. (7ish) was 112, which I thought was ok.
jelabedi1
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Tue, 08-21-2007 - 5:08pm
I am not on medication yet,but probably will be soon. My fasting blood sugar is high around 135-148 when I arise.. The rest of the day I can keep it around 103-115.
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Tue, 08-21-2007 - 7:26pm
You are lucky, that it is not high. You could still control your blood sugars with diet and exercise. I have been diabetic for 16 year and I would be extremely happy if I woke up with those numbers! I am trying really hard right now not to eat very much to be able to keep mine closer to where they need to be. The more insulin I take, the more I gain! I hate it! I am considering lap-band surgery to be able to get off all the medication that I am on. I will attend a seminar next week and if they can get my insurance to pay for it, I will do it! It's a 25-45 minute procedure and the benefits outwiegh being a diabetic. My great grandfatherk, grandfather and my father, as well as his 3 sisters, lost eyesight, some lost feet, others lost both legs. It runs with high complications in my family and I know it, but I can't seem to get a grip on it and I am getting so tired of it. I have been on many clinical trials studies to get the help I need, but I go up and down on my A1C's. I just need to get this under control.
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Tue, 08-21-2007 - 8:08pm

I know exercise is hard for you. Any possibility you could get a pedometer and even try to just walk more. I will say way back when I started exercising due to some other conditions, it was hard for me to walk much. so i started out with something piddly like 5 minutes each on the arm cycle and treadmill. I gradually increased it(more than the plan I had worked out with a trainer....but could not reach the speeds she thought I could). Walmart has an Omron pedometer(not real cheap, less than $19 though, has a little leash(I needed it cuz the first week I usually bumped it off the waist at least 5-6 times a day!!) and it just runs all the time. some will shut off if you dont move for a while. This one also has a 7 day memory, and so you can compare how many steps each day for a whole week. then just try to increase the daily steps a little at a time. Just remember to start slow and dont try to much to start. also do something that you can stay with.

I will say the higher morning numbers are also I believe an indication of insulin resistance, and that often can be helped by exercise!!

Also weird as it sounds, the little energy you DO expend on exercise WILL come back to you tenfold!! the more you exercise the more energy you get. I have found it also helps my mood a LOT, lowers my stress, blood pressure, and can even lower the cholesterol!!

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Tue, 08-21-2007 - 8:50pm
Thanks for the encouragement! My main problem with no being able to walk much is a heal spur. I finally am not hurting anymore after 8 months of pain. It seems to have settled down and it was walking the treadmill that got it to flare up back in January. I will wear a good pair of walking shoes this time and some gel inserts too! Hopefully that will help. I am going to start off at a slow pace and work my way back up to the 4 miles I used to walk before. My Bg's were down a bit more and I did have lots of energy. I may just start walking tonight! Thanks so much! I will keep you informed.