Blood sugar range

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Bob in CT said:

So, what is considered a "normal" blood sugar range during the day?
I'm also thinking of getting a blood sugar tester.

What's considered normal by the ADA and what's actually safe and healthy
are completely different things.

Ideally, you want to stay in a pretty narrow range of about 85 fasting
up to maybe 110 after meals to avoid getting diabetic complications
while still not meeting the criteria to be diagnosed DM.

Susan

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So, what is considered a "normal" blood sugar range during the day? I'm
also thinking of getting a blood sugar tester.

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Bob in CT

i just did my first test. 97 after not eating since dinner last night.

so, i will eat now and test in an hour.

I really like this meter, so cheap and it seems to do more than i need. the
pokey thing is quick&easy, the meter keeps track of averages and all this
and can be downloaded it say. cool beans for 8.99

Susan said:

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Bob in CT said:

So, what is considered a "normal" blood sugar range during the day?
I'm also thinking of getting a blood sugar tester.

What's considered normal by the ADA and what's actually safe and healthy
are completely different things.

Ideally, you want to stay in a pretty narrow range of about 85 fasting
up to maybe 110 after meals to avoid getting diabetic complications
while still not meeting the criteria to be diagnosed DM.

Susan

Thanks, Susan. What's DM? diabetes mellitus?

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Bob in CT

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Bob in CT said:

Thanks, Susan. What's DM? diabetes mellitus?

Yep.

Here's a very informative site about the bg levels at which bad things
start to happen:

www.phlaunt.com/diabetes

Susan

Susan said:

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Bob in CT said:

Thanks, Susan. What's DM? diabetes mellitus?

Yep.

Here's a very informative site about the bg levels at which bad things
start to happen:

www.phlaunt.com/diabetes

Susan

Very interesting website. This also implies that heart disease is related
more to blood sugar than to cholesterol, which I think is true. Thanks
for the link.

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Bob in CT

Bob in CT said:

So, what is considered a "normal" blood sugar range during the day? I'm
also thinking of getting a blood sugar tester.

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Bob in CT

In Canada normal runs between 4-7. Actually that is optimal.

nanner said:

i just did my first test. 97 after not eating since dinner last
night.

When you get a chance, read a little about something called "dawn
phenomenon." It seems that some people see a significant rise in BG
in the early morning, even though they haven't eaten anything to
prompt it. As I understand it, your liver starts to release some
glucose to give you "waking up" energy, and in some people it gets
carried away. That could explain your somewhat high number even
though you hadn't eaten in half a day or so.

Not that that number should scare you or anything; it's still in the
normal range. And as many people pointed out to me when my very first
test said "60", you should never take the results of a single test too
seriously anyway. It's the overall picture you get after many tests
that matters.

From what I've read about dawn phenomenon, it seems like it would
lessen in someone who stays low-carb, because we have less glucose
hanging around in our muscles and organs to be released than the grain
foragers do. But I suppose there's always going to be some stored
away, especially in the liver.

Quoted message said:

I really like this meter, so cheap and it seems to do more than i
need. the pokey thing is quick&easy, the meter keeps track of
averages and all this and can be downloaded it say. cool beans for
8.99

It's actually kinda fun, isn't it?

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Aaron -- 285/235/200 -- aaron.baugher.biz