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Blood glucose monitoring while eating much less

Started 13 May 2025 · 22 replies · 202 hearts · read 2k times

RowanInverness, UK · 13 May 2025
about a year ago

Blood glucose monitoring while eating much less — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

Some background first, because it matters for the question.

My prescriber has been fine, genuinely. The problem is that I get nine minutes twice a year and there is no version of nine minutes that covers this.

Here is where I am. The medication side has been more or less as described, and the part nobody prepared me for is everything around it: what to say to people, how to plan a week, and how to tell the difference between a thing to endure and a thing to raise.

The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.

Sorry for the length. If anyone has been here, I would very much like to hear it.

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GusStirling, UK
#1

I asked my nurse the same question and she said something I have repeated ever since: that the aim is to keep you on treatment, not to get you up the schedule.

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PolaGdańsk, PL
#2

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

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MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands
#3

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PeggyRotherham, UK
#4

Gently disagreeing with the opening post, or rather adding the other half of it.

My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.

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TullaTralee, IE
#5

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

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PippaTruro, UK
#6

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

Yes. All of this. I had the same in my third month and I remember thinking there was something specifically wrong with me, which there was not.

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TarnKeswick, UK
#7

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

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TressaSt Austell, UK
#8

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

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EsmeAix-en-Provence, FR
#9

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

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BlySheffield, UK
#10

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

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HattieExeter, UK
#11

What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.

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SadieSalford, UK
#12

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

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JontyOxford, UK
#13

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

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OskarWarsaw, PL
#14

I am the person who had the frightening version of this. I went in, it was investigated, and it was not what anyone feared. Going in is the whole of my advice.

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AleksLjubljana, SI
#15

I did exactly the same and felt terrible about it. You have not done anything wrong.

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AmmiKarachi, PK
#16

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

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BramSheffield, UK
#17

Have you got anyone who can be with you when you do it? It made an enormous difference to me and I felt silly asking.

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FlossieShrewsbury, UK
#18

The thing that changed it for me was going slower, agreed with my prescriber. I am not suggesting you do that. I am saying the conversation exists.

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BrodyDunfermline, UK
#19

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.

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PamSouthport, UK
#20

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.

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MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands
#21

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

I will leave this open for a few more days and then add it to the circle's resources, because the answers here are better than anything I would have written.

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ZoëHackney, UK
#22

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

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