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blood sugar
Dec. 6th, 2007 10:31ok, so my fasting blood sugar is not hideously high this morning, in fact considerably lower than the lab test, at 6.7. last thing i had to eat 12 hours ago was a whole guava. this is higher than it should be (6.1 mmol/l is the upper end of the canadian guideline for normal fasting blood glucose levels), but not hugely so. it could also be slightly elevated already because this might actually be too long a time to go without food, and my liver might've already pumped out extra sugar.
*sigh of relief*. i know it's just one number, and one lower number does not a trend make, but it makes me a bit less worried, and more confident that the levels can be controlled with a bit more attention to eating well (notice how i am avoiding the 4-letter word "diet" :) and being more physically active. yesterday featured more walking around and a healthier bedtime snack than is usual (i often eat a sizeable meal before going to bed, just because i forgot to eat earlier and am ravenous).
fortunately the fingerpricking didn't hurt much, nor do the puncture sites hurt now, so pain isn't gonna be a major deterrent for testing at this point.
now i need to figure out how to delete individual test results from the spiffy meter i ended up with (lifescan's onetouch ultrasmart -- what a mouthful), so that the paramour can try this too. i chose this one because the cost for test strips locally was between $72-80 no matter what brand, and walmart spared me from giving them any money (however grudgingly) by not actually having the el-cheapo meter+strip deal available that i had read about. the cheapest strips were on sale for $70 at shoppers drugmart, for their own "life" brand, but a one-time sale does not a good investment make, and their meter was barebones. if it turns out i need to do this long-term i'll be spending more time looking for a cheap online source. (if you're in the US and are in need of cheap strips, try http://www.hocks.com, who have some amazingly low prices, but unfortunately don't ship internationally).
the ultrasmart will relieve me of keeping a written logbook by providing its own, and i can upload the data to my computer as well. it also allows for taking blood at alternate sites (palm or forearm) should the fingers get too pricked up. it can do averages and graphs, and i can record my BP and food intake as well. not bad for an experiment.
*sigh of relief*. i know it's just one number, and one lower number does not a trend make, but it makes me a bit less worried, and more confident that the levels can be controlled with a bit more attention to eating well (notice how i am avoiding the 4-letter word "diet" :) and being more physically active. yesterday featured more walking around and a healthier bedtime snack than is usual (i often eat a sizeable meal before going to bed, just because i forgot to eat earlier and am ravenous).
fortunately the fingerpricking didn't hurt much, nor do the puncture sites hurt now, so pain isn't gonna be a major deterrent for testing at this point.
now i need to figure out how to delete individual test results from the spiffy meter i ended up with (lifescan's onetouch ultrasmart -- what a mouthful), so that the paramour can try this too. i chose this one because the cost for test strips locally was between $72-80 no matter what brand, and walmart spared me from giving them any money (however grudgingly) by not actually having the el-cheapo meter+strip deal available that i had read about. the cheapest strips were on sale for $70 at shoppers drugmart, for their own "life" brand, but a one-time sale does not a good investment make, and their meter was barebones. if it turns out i need to do this long-term i'll be spending more time looking for a cheap online source. (if you're in the US and are in need of cheap strips, try http://www.hocks.com, who have some amazingly low prices, but unfortunately don't ship internationally).
the ultrasmart will relieve me of keeping a written logbook by providing its own, and i can upload the data to my computer as well. it also allows for taking blood at alternate sites (palm or forearm) should the fingers get too pricked up. it can do averages and graphs, and i can record my BP and food intake as well. not bad for an experiment.