I have the same checking regime so I think that is fine. It is looking for more of a pattern rather than the odd elevated level. I find my fasting level is worse if my night has been sleep disrupted due to the little person and some foods trigger off a higher level too, even though my overall diet is fine. You will find your own pattern and the small things that may need to be changed - even just the addition of some extra exercise (like we have the time to fit that in too )
If morning levels when waking are higher than the last reading the night before, that can also be hormonal too. Not much you can do about it, perhaps try a bit of yoghurt or nuts right before bed, but that doesnt always help.
I was told more then 3 over 7 in one week would mean I needed reviewing.. but at 36 weeks you would be finding you will get more over 7 due to stage of pregnancy and the GD.. Well thats what I was told by my GD lady...
I had to test when I woke.. then 2 hours after every meal plus insulin twice a day then test again before I went to bed..
ouch...even as a diabetic of 30 years experience I still don't use the pinky finger!! I would be avoiding that one it is a bit hurties the old pinky.
You will find it less painful and also easier to get a good drop of blood from the sides of the tops of your fimgers instead of the actual tips...the very tips are heaps full of nerve endings (hence how we feel things with or finger so can tend to hurt a bit more, also the capillaries are at there smallest at the tips and can sometimes be harder to find)
With you blood glucose meter try not to over analyse too much.....at the end of the day they are just a machine and their accuracy although pretty good is not perfect. If you were to take two drops of blood from the same finger rpick and test them both on the same machine at the same time (if this were possibe) you could resonably expect the machine to read up to 1.5 mmols difference either way...this is what they call standard variance...I can understand how it would be frustrating for you but in all honesty it is easier on your sanity if you do the one test and go with that. The four tests you did could just have easily gone up from the initial reading by the same amount...the fact that they went down is more likely coincidence than anything else. The only time I would question a meter reading would be if say you got a ridiculously high one like say 13 or even higher...the I would probably go wash your hands rinse and dry thm thoroughly and test again...cos if they are that high you may have sugar on your fingers!! I rememebr many times testing at over 20 and going "Holy Cow...But I feel fine" washing my hands and retesting at 5 or 6 and then going "Oh, it must have been that donut I ate,etc.."
Honestly you are doing fine..try not to stress too much as that also tends to send the sugars in an upwards direction...
Chin UP....Not long to go now!!
yeah I had hte same thing happen... I was on notice for going on insulin if I went over 8... one night I did it, got an 8.2, so double checked a minute later and got a 6! So then I was like "what the..?" My endo said that a) those machines aren't THAT accurate - too expensive to make them that accurate and there would be variance between tests, and that b) what is more important is the general trends anyway... that they were looking at a number of tests to see what's happening over time. It is very disconcerting though!
Good luck with it all, it sounds like you're going well
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but I haven't had a reading over 6.5, and haven't changed a THING!!!!
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