Are my blood glucose levels ok or are they too low?

Normal blood sugar values are considered to be between 4 and 8 mmol, so yours are perfect.

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Are my blood glucose levels ok or are they too low?

I have checked my levels twice every day for the past week at roughly the same times.

I'm not going to give you the results for each day separately as it would be pretty boring because in each case levels were only about 0.1 higher or smaller. So I chose today's results:

About 11am...

4,7 faSTING JUST UNDER 10 AFTER EATING RIGHT NOW IM LOW 3.7 FOR DIABETES 1 UNDER 5 IS LOW • Here are the Symptoms of Diabetes

rapid breathing/ trouble breathing

depression is be link to it to

boils is a sight to doctor say

exhausting

headaches, back pain, aching muscles, and stomach pain

Excessive thirst and appetite

Increased urination (sometimes as often as every hour)

Unusual weight loss or gain

Fatigue

Nausea, perhaps vomiting

Blurred vision

In women, frequent vaginal infections

In men and women, yeast infections

Trouble getting or maintaining an erection

Dry mouth

•Lack of interest and concentration

Slow-healing sores or cuts

Itching skin, especially in the groin or vaginal

numbness/tingling in the hands/feet

Areas of darkened skin

bruises that take a long time time to heal

i have it 5 years now ,my sister 15 year old have it since she was 6

run in both of of my family my ma sisters and brothers have it and their kids and also their kids

my da mother had it and die from it in 2005 98 years old and his brothers and sisters and their kids had it to we are over run with 1 ,2

Common symptoms for lows include the following:

Trembling

Clamminess

Palpitations

Anxiety

Sweating

Hunger

Because the brain is deprived of glucose, a second set of symptoms follows:

Difficulty in thinking

Confusion

Headache

Seizures

Coma

Ultimately, death

Gestational diabetes

During pregnancy body releases a lot of harmone which may sometimes interfere with the body's usual response to insulin, which develops insulin resistance like the type 2 diabetes. Gestational diabetes is fully treatable but requires careful medical supervision throughout the pregnancy. It may improve or disappear after delivery. About 20%–50% of affected women develop type 2 diabetes

There are 2 tests for Gestational Diabetes. A one hour fasting glucose test and a 3 hour test. In both cases, you drink a special drink that is very high in glucose (sugar) on an empty stomach and they test to see how your body handles the sugar.

If they said you had slightly high sugar, you probably did the one hour test. To double check, they are bringing you in for the 3 hour test.

Make sure you have totally fasted...no food or drink other than water for 8 hours before the test. Eating before the test will effect your sugar numbers after the test. After you drink the drink...go for a walk...move around, don't just sit or lay down. Moving and exercise lowers blood sugar.

If you do get diagnosed with Gestational Diabetes, it is a real concern. One thing to remember is, you will not have diabetes when you have the baby. Giving birth cures Gestational Diabetes. Doctors do not know what causes it during pregnancy and there is no real way to fix it if it happens. You should eat a whole food diet, stay away from processed foods, foods with additives (diet cokes, fast food...) and eat high protein. (try to get 100grams a day).

Gestational Diabetes can cause the baby to grow large and cause complications toward the end of pregnancy. Symptoms to look for are - Sudden extreme swelling of the feet, hands and face (not normal swelling...sudden and extreme), pain under the ribs on the left side of your body. If that happens, call the doc right away.

The doc will work with you, rest and diet to help manage the diabetes to get you as far along in the pregnancy as possible. You CAN carry full term with hard work. However, if your sugar numbers continue to rise and go out of control along with getting the symptoms above, they will have to induce labor or send you for a c-section around 36-38 weeks.

If is fairly common and can be managed. Read up on it and talk with your doctor.

How blood glucose is measured

In home testing, blood glucose levels are usually measured in terms of how many millimoles of glucose there is in a litre of blood. A millimole is a measurement that is used to define the concentration of glucose in your blood. The measurement is expressed as millimoles per litre, or mmol/l, for short.

Blood glucose levels vary from person to person and the amount of glucose in your blood will also change throughout the day. Therefore, there is no such thing as an ‘ideal' blood glucose level.

However, a normal blood glucose level is between 4.0-6.0 mmol/l before meals (preprandial), and less than 10.0 mmol/l two hours after meal