Monday, March 22, 2010

Blood Glucose Levels

All "after meal" entries are from 1 1/2 to 2 hours after eating.

3.5.10
  • 1:47pm 81mg/dL After Meal
  • 10:18pm 120 mg/dL After Meal
3.6.10
  • 8:03am 73 mg/dL After Fasting
  • 10:57am 68mg/dL After Meal
  • 1:36pm 96mg/dL After Meal
  • 3:43pm 102mg/dL After Meal
  • 6:45pm 88mg/dL After Meal
3.8.10
  • 10:44am 81mg/dL After Fasting
  • 12:30pm 84mg/dL After Meal
  • 7:43pm 121mg/dL After Candy
3.9.10
  • 9:19am 67mg/dL After Fasting
  • 1:09pm 63mg/dL Before Meal
  • 2:54pm 172mg/dL After a LOT of Candy
  • 3:28pm 129mg/dL Just checking again...
  • 8:59pm 135mg/dL After BIG Meal
3.10.10
  • 7:54am 69mg/dL After Fasting
  • 12:04pm 105mg/dL After Meal
  • 9:29pm 82mg/dL After Meal
3.11.10
  • 2:15pm 133mg/dL After Meal
3.12.10
  • 8:19am 74mg/dL After Fasting
3.14.10
  • 9:26pm 89mg/dL After Meal
3.15.10
  • 9:06am 75mg/dL After Fasting
3.16.10
  • 9:50am 63mg/dL After Fasting
  • 10:36am 97mg/dL After Meal
  • 6:00pm 122mg/dL After Meal
3.17.10
  • 8:44am 68mg/dL After Fasting
3.22.10
  • 7:39am 76mg/dL After Fasting
  • 6:06pm 127mg/dL After Meal
OK, so this exercise has proven several things:

1. A am extremely forgetful.
2. I do not eat at any regular scheduled times.
3. My children like to hide my things.
4. I really should keep a food diary so that this all makes a little more sense. Something more than a note that says CANDY. Ha!

Overall, though, it seems like my levels seem to drop quite low pretty much daily. I have noticed that the severe headaches and occasional migraines I have been having seem to coincide with these drops and are pretty much impossible to shake for the remainder of the day. My theory? Pregnancy has exacerbated my hypoglycemia...? So probably not diabetes, but still something to take care of. Particularly given my risk status for developing diabetes later.

3 comments:

  1. Actually when your pancreas over produces it is a sign there are problems. So be warned. the other issue is I need for you to give me one fasting, one pre meal and one post meal. A food journal would also help to keep track of what you are eating. but its a good start. So pick ONE meal a day and test consistently at that meal time.

    but so far its ok. I am a little worried about the 179 but it looks like it came down. A little spike here and there won't hurt the baby but a lot will. How many wks are you now?

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  2. OK. I will use lunch as my pre/post testing time, as I always eat a decent lunch. Starting TODAY. ;)

    The 172 was after a truly embarrassing candy binge, and was probably less than 2 hours after, though I don't remember exactly. I do that about once a year, ha!

    I'm definitely feeling...cautious. I truly take it as a warning. My dad's diabetes started like this (increased hypo issues), and had he managed it THEN, he likely wouldn't have the diabetes NOW. At least that's my understanding, I could be way off base.

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  3. Oh, and I'm 17 1/2 weeks along now. :)

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