Any diabetic nurses or GPs about? Pre-diabetes and continuous glucose monitor showing little variation

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Seriously weird as I'm glad others have picked up on too.

FGS leave OP alone - she's trying to see how various ways of eating might affect her blood sugars. I don't see why you have such a big problem with that. Seriously what is your issue??

FGS what is your problem?

leave the OP alone. You are willfully 'misunderstanding' & twisting her posts. I don't know what your angie is, but give it up!

@Notouchingmybhuna actually its a good idea to try these things to see how they effect your BS. Why are you being weird about it?

Libres can lag and they also are confused by blood sugar going high or dropping quickly. As a type 1 diabetic I find it to be great for patterns but I always check with a finger pick if it is suggesting something different to how I feel.

Your graph looks enviable! For blood sugar it is activity rather than exercise so that could have led to less pronounced spikes if you were up and about after eating. You don’t need to be taking rigorous exercise for it to impact blood sugar levels.

‘I only started the course a few days ago and have deliberately challenged my body with cake and a caramel Frappuccino along with going out for pizza and pudding’ 😉

Problem is this just one day graph? (Sorry if you posted more) your A1c is measured over a period of 3 months. Anyone can have a good day with blood sugars (even diabetics do!) but doesnt mean the next day will be as good.
Have you done any excerise today? Or upped your excerise at all?

Has the OP bern advised by an HCP to sign up to a free trial of a monitor and to artificially manipulate their normal diet to try and induce spikes?

Libres are pretty accurate to be fair, not sure how a free trial makes it unaccurate?

@Notouchingmybhunabut the OP is pre-diabetic and has been advised to adapt their diet to reduce their blood glucose levels. A CGM is a valuable tool in understanding which foods are causing excess glucose levels.

We do not all react in the same way to the same foods. For example I cannot eat potatoes, they spike my sugar levels very high and it takes hours to come back into range, I can eat oats and I can eat a small amount of basmati rice but not long grain.

The OP is NOT diabetic 🙄

This was mine last August when I was diagnosed with T2 diabetes. I had apparently had it for a while which makes sense, I have had insulin resistant PCOS since puberty, got GD when pregnant with DD and had been feeling ill for months before my diagnosis. I suspected Diabetes but couldn’t get a doctors appt so bought a Freestyle Libre sensor on Amazon and when I started getting these results I called 111 for advice, the Dr who called me back sent me to A&E and they started me immediately on insulin.

I’m a Type 1 diabetic, have been for many years and this is the same CGM I am prescribed for my care. All T1D are entitled to them on the NHS, T2 can self fund at £60 a sensor so it’s a no brainer for them to offer a free trial for you to hopefully sign up. Its definitely not an untested, inaccurate gimmick

...which is why we would have a kid at work with their phone going crazy, Mum practically driving through the closed gates wanting a search party sent out when the kid was sat with me getting really frustrated that it wouldn't shut up - and I couldn't get through to Mum to say everything was fine/the kid wasn't collapsed in a toilet somewhere because she was simultaneously constantly ringing Reception to open the gates at the same time as hammering on the entry pad.

Not criticising it or their Mum at all, it's just what happens with the two methods of measurement, but the lag could elicit some rather dramatic human responses.

@LegoTherapy . You are only in the pre diabetic stage , based on your HbA1c result . HbA1c is a measure of how much glucose has " stuck " to your red blood cells, so is very much an " average " and not a snap shot . Your body seems to be producing enough insulin to prevent spikes in glucose but the " average " is taking your HbA1c to just about the non diabetic range .

I know , I was replying to the message that the devices are not accurate.

The OP isn’t diabetic 😉

Abbott devices are used in diabetes and are available on prescription for some patients with diabetes and are very accurate and rigorously trialled and tested . They interstitial glucose , not blood glucose and there is a few minute delay between the two .

I use this device - something to be aware of is the inaccuracy. My Libre can tell me I’m 5.5 but my fingerprick can often be much higher ie 8.5. The Libre is good for showing spikes, patterns, when you’re dropping, going high or stable but I’ve found huge inaccuracies and still fingerprick test to be safe. So the numbers you’re seeing may well be much lower than you actually are.

One more thing change your target range to upper limit 7.8 not 10. Then visually you’ll get a feel for how long you’re above that

If it is going up but coming down quickly and your fasting is normal then that all sounds very normal. Updated needed at the end of your 2 weeks!