So I took my 2-hour OGTT test some 2 weeks ago, which showed my fasting blood sugar to be at 100.7 (beyond the range of 60-100), but my OGTT tests after 1 hour and 2 hours normal. A trip to the endicronologist revealed I have impaired fasting blood sugar. My pregnancy hormones plus my family history of diabetes/high blood sugar means that I don't produce enough insulin (?) or I have insulin resistance (?) for the fasting sugar/nighttime sugar or the sugar that my liver produces while I'm asleep. Not so much as what I eat during the day, since my post-meals/post-grandial sugar levels are fine.
For the past 2 weeks, I've been pricking my fingers every day with this One Touch glucose meter. I've been asked to test my before breakfast sugar levels, and then every couple of days switch to testing either my 2-hours after lunch or 2-hours after dinner levels. So far my post-grandial tests have been within range (below 120). It's my fasting blood sugar that I can't lower (should be below 90, but below 95 for some other endicronologists). My numbers range from 98-104.
I've had success maintaining it at 98 when I've started taking psyllium husk at least 30 minutes before dinner, and a pre bedtime snack of apple cider vinegar (in water) and maybe a tsp of peanut butter or slice of cheese, but I can't find the perfect bedtime snack to get my levels below 90. In fact, I can't even decide if I should stop bedtime snacking altogether and go back to the initial recommendation of just not eating anything between dinner and waking up time.
Or maybe I need to change the glucose meter's battery since it's just one bar? I'll go do that later.
Tonight maybe I'll try with just apple cider vinegar, no other snack?
FACK. This is hard. Made even harder that this is the holidays, and everyone else is gorging on dessert. And all I can have is a square piece of dark chocolate or digestive cookie.
