jakexb
#261
LaraPo
#262
It’s tricky to get an accurate fasting glucose reading in a lab. It changes every minute. I wear a monitor and it would show 70 mg/dl at 6 am, then 80 when I get up at 7:30 am, at the time when I reach the lab by 9 am, it’s already 100+. My point is that without a monitor it’s almost impossible to know your accurate fasting reading.
That’s an interesting point. I have not myself worn a CGM when fasting. Obviously glucose will vary, but not as much as when not fasting (or I would assume so). I have in fact implanted a CGM this morning to monitor the effects of an intervention I am planning for Saturday. It would be quite a good idea to track glucose with a CGM when fasting to get an idea of the variations.
BP also varies a lot from minute to minute. Have you tried tracking it every minute for a while to see what happens?
FWIW, my blood glucose varies more from dawn effect, exercise, etc than food. It’s easier to pinpoint when (and often what kind) of exercise I’m doing in my CGM graph than it is to see where the meals occurred.
