When did you start seeing BS levels decline?

[Jingles]

Just being impatient I guess, but how long before you started seeing your blood sugar levels drop while on PP? Days? Weeks? Months?

[Ottawa]

Jingles,
Welcome to the board.
My morning BS or BG level dropped within a few days. It took a few weeks to drop to what I would call a healthy level. The numbers in Canada (and the rest of the world except the US :rolleyes:) are done in Metric so will differ from the numbers you use.

I was at 8.0 where 6.2 is the diabetic crossover. I am now a solid 5.6 unless I have a workout the night before or even a major workout the day before. If I eat later in the evening it will be up a bit as well.
At the start I was measuring daily to see a trend and dropped to weekly and now just every few months. I have never had a reading below 5.4 regardless of how low I take my carbs. It's possible that it may be from the years of abuse and possibly that we never fully recover our Insulin Sensitivity?
I am currently in a "cleanse fast" mode and will measure Thursday to see what difference there is during a restriction like this.

BTW: GO ahead and be impatient, we likely all were :lol:. Every pound, inch, the fit of our clothes, Blood sugar readings, Lipid profile, increased physical activity and so on, all adds to the success.
Many of us find teh daily reporting in the Monthly Challenges to be an extra incentive to be accountable.

[Jingles]

Thanks for the welcome. Testing is new to me ... have to hold my breath to do the ... thing that pricks you. I can't stand needles ... should see me when I have to do bloodwork! Yikes! That alone is motavation enough to stay with PP!

I've only had one visit with the dr. about my sugar levels and won't see her again for 2 more weeks. I just find it weird that my after dinner levels are lower than my fasting ones - not by a lot, but fasting is supposed to be lower... right? The only thing I take after dinner, between the 2 tests is my HBP meds with water ... and more water, but nothing after say 11pm. I haven't eaten anything, or drank anything but water, so I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

I went to the heart dr. Tuesday (a week ago) and he doubled my HBP meds and then I go to the internist Friday and she added a new HBP med because it was still up there (I was also nervous), and she also put me on a diabetic med. I can just see her doubling that or more meds when I go back. That would be the opposite of my goal.

Seems to be discouraging, not really seeing any movement in the numbers ... well, this mornings was the lowest so far ... only a couple above last nights. But I really need to remember it's only been a few days. I need to take a deep breath and relax about it. I know it WILL come down. :)

:D Good news though! I had a lot of energy today and I had to keep pulling up my pants and (is this weird?) my shoes feel loose. My home scale says I've lost 5 pounds so far. I won't believe that one until I go back to the doctor.

[Jingles]

:nod: :thumbsup: spoke a little too soon! Test this morning was down 20 points from yesterday and 30 points from 3 days ago! I was worried that they'd be higher than before since I ate pretty late, and more carbs than usual for dinner, but it wasn't. I know it's only 1 test, but to finally see some movement, that's uplifting.

Weird, but I'm craving egg salad sandwiches. :)

[Ottawa]

"Weird, but I'm craving egg salad sandwiches. :)"

Go for it. :D Just leave the bread or use a low carb wrap.

[~april~]

Hi Jingles. I saw the same thing (as a newly diagnosed diabetic). My morning fasting levels were higher than after eating a big meal. After a bit of research, I found the answer to this. When you eat more sugars (carbs), your body goes into panic mode and attempts to achieve balance again. Too much insulin is released, because as you know sugar in the blood is a very bad thing for our bodies. Anyway, with that blast of too much insulin, the sugar in the blood is taken care of...and we crash. Our blood sugar is lower than normal. This repeats the cycle (crash & crave carbs...eat carbs & go sky high, and then crash again). This is not good - it's the extreme ups and downs that diabetics have to avoid - we want a constant blood sugar level. Hope this helps.