Fun with a ReliOn glucose meter

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Ignoramus25877 - 28 Mar 2004 02:32 GMT

Okay, I learned how to use the relion glucose meter and played with it
today. The readings shown are raw numbers displayed by the relion. I
have not done the real glucose tolerance test and I have not eaten
much fast acting carbs.

The bigger carb load was at dinner, when I ate a big plate of hot oat
bran cereal (unsweetened, with a few washed dried berries). Maybe, a
wild assed guess, 50 grams of carbs, supposedly very low GI.

Blood tests with a home ReliOn glucose monitor from walmart

3/27/2004: 71 -- Tested fasting blood glucose in the morning, ReliOn
3/27/2004: 66 -- 13:40, after a decent lunch at 12:30, with salad, fried cabbage, and meat: 66
3/27:2004: 77 -- 19:20, 2 hours after a hot oat bran cereal, about (WAG) 50 grams of carbs

I am 5'11" 33 year old male, lost about 47 lbs last year and about 4
lbs this year.

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Alan - 28 Mar 2004 03:40 GMT

>Okay, I learned how to use the relion glucose meter and played with it
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If I read your post correctly, you got, successively, 71, 66, 66 and 77.
I presume these are US numbers.

Apart from my own suspicion that your meter reads a little low, what is
the problem here? Those are certainly not, by any stretch of the
imagination, pre-diabetic or diabetic figures.

Go back to leading an obviously healthy life.

And congrats on the weight loss.

Cheers, Alan, T2 d&e, Australia.

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Ignoramus25877 - 28 Mar 2004 04:02 GMT

>>Okay, I learned how to use the relion glucose meter and played with it
>>today. The readings shown are raw numbers displayed by the relion. I
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> If I read your post correctly, you got, successively, 71, 66, 66 and 77.
> I presume these are US numbers.

They are US numbers.

> Apart from my own suspicion that your meter reads a little low, what

I have the same suspicion. Lab test for my fasting BG done 3 months
ago was 90 mg/dL.

> is the problem here? Those are certainly not, by any stretch of the
> imagination, pre-diabetic or diabetic figures.

Seems like that is quite correct. The "problem" is diabetes in some of
my relatives.

> Go back to leading an obviously healthy life.

Thanks for your encouragement!

> And congrats on the weight loss.

Thanks.

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Jenny - 28 Mar 2004 16:37 GMT

The Relion is a Blood Calibrated meter. Add 12% to get the plasma calibrated
numbers you'd see with most meters.

That looks like COMPLETELY NORMAL BLOOD SUGAR to me. Great work!!!!!

-- Jenny - Low Carbing for 4 years. At goal for weight. Type 2 diabetes,
hba1c 5.2.
Cut the carbs to respond to my email address!

Low carb facts and figures, my weight-loss photos, tips, recipes,
strategies for dealing with diabetes and more at
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Visit http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/Newly%20Diagnosed.htm

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Ignoramus14394 - 28 Mar 2004 20:27 GMT

> The Relion is a Blood Calibrated meter. Add 12% to get the plasma calibrated
> numbers you'd see with most meters.
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> That looks like COMPLETELY NORMAL BLOOD SUGAR to me. Great work!!!!!

Thanks. I will do a GTT just so that I can compare how it changes over
the years. I am a numbers kind of guy.

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oldal4865 - 29 Mar 2004 12:37 GMT

Ignoramus14394 wrote in message ...

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You have a heads up attitude which can lead to a longer, healthier,
happier life for a person with your genes.

You guessed right, Type 2 Diabetes is genetically based. Current thinking
is that if you inherit the genes (that's a crap shoot by the way), you
will "become" Type 2 Diabetic "sooner or later". Your goal is a lifestyle
which converts "sooner" to "later" (i.e. aim for your 120th birthday
instead of your 50th).

And again, you guessed right. To retard the slow but steady rate of beta
cell destruction which leads to Type 2, you:

1. Minimize your Insulin Resistance

a. Minimize fat lb, especially abdominal fat
b. Maximize muscle lb
c. Exercise every day, the more vigorously the better

(For a start, buy a cheap pedometer and somehow manage to
squeeze in 10,000 steps a day)

2. Minimize the amount of insulin your genetically impaired and thus
damaged beta cells must produce

a. Ration your carb intake
(Folks can do quite well on 60 gram carb per day instead of
the ridiculous U.S. diet of 300 gram or more)

b. Eat slowly digesting carbs (aka low "Glycemic Index)

3. And keep checking for signs of Type 2 Diabetes. If you find any
(GTT, high bG at 2-hr-after-eating, etc), go into "junkyard dog" mode of
attack on the disease.

a. Concentrate on #1 and #2 above
b. Use the anti-Insulin Resistance med metformin and consider a
preventative insulin shot at bedtime

Umm. . . maybe you weren't guessing.

BTW: It is really refreshing to read a post like yours instead of the sad
ones from folks who were ambushed by this disease.

Regards
Old Al

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Cubit - 28 Mar 2004 17:06 GMT

I find it interesting to see what a normal person gets for readings.
Thanks.

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