Hello Sally,
I am not a doctor. Any advice you receive from anyone please make sure that your doctor knows about it. Low carb/keto works for some people but not all, you may have to experiment to find your perfect diet.
Glimepiride, is a medicine used to treat type 2 diabetes mellitus in adults. It belongs to a group of medicines called sulfonylureas and helps control blood sugar levels in people with diabetes. Specifically, a Sulfonylureas (Insulin Secretogogues). Make sure that you understand the side effects of this medication and that your doctor is aware of any of your existing health conditions.

Can you provide me with any other readings from your blood panel, fasting blood sugar, fasting insulin, triglycerides, HDL-C, LDL, homocysteine, ALT, AST and GGT.
Then we can have a look at what you eat and drink, describe a typical week with a breakdown of each meal. Do you drink alcohol?

Let me know and we can go to the next step.
Take care.
Jimmy.

Hello Charles,

Blood sugar is always higher in the morning due to the Dawn Phenomenon or the Somogyi Effect. Lack of sleep is always going to cause stress which will cause cortisol to secrete and ultimately lower insulin.

If you are really troubled by your sleep try reading the “Exact Blueprint On How to Sleep Better and Feel Amazing Brain Health, Memory Improvement& Increase Energy”. Click on the link at the bottom of my post. We sleep in cycles of 90 minutes and if you could shoot for 6, 7.5 or 9 hours that would be ideal.

Lastly, I was very stressed due to what I thought I was going to owe in taxes and yes cortisol was high along with my insulin. My blood sugar was high too. 

Note, you have to look at the overall picture of your body numbers, if ALT, A1c, triglycerides, HDL and fasting insulin are normal, then no need to worry. Any of these markers that are out of wack, you can bet there are other issues.

Out of curiosity what are your numbers?

Thanks for dropping by and commenting.

Jimmy. 

So are you saying in the end that your higher blood sugar was from stress? Or that it was just a normal human thing to have higher blood sugar in the morning?

Good article!

 Hello Babsie,

I am glad you appreciate the information. My family was brought up on high carbs and low fat and that is why my father died of a hemorrhagic stroke and my brother and I are type 2 diabetics.

You cannot burn fat on a high carb diet because insulin will always be storing fat. You need to be on a low carb high fat diet so that you limit insulin and can start burning fat.

As Henry Bieler said and the title to his book Food is Your Best Medicine. 

I highly recommend this book and you can find it in your library or go to my website and go to the Recommended Books To Read page and link to Amazon or search on Indigo.

Thanks for dropping by and your comments.

Jimmy

Hello,

I have never seen the A1CNow System until you told me about it. I went to the site and from the specs it says it is 99% accurate, which is pretty good. On the other hand, I would not buy it because I get my blood panel done every 6 months.

Even though I agree with your doctor that A1c is important, it is a measurement of the glucose sticking to red blood cells and measured over a period of 90 days.

As I mentioned in my post 1 measurement does not mean anything unless you count that against the other tests.

So as in my case my fasting insulin, triglycerides, HDL, ALT and A1C are all normal, the only marker that was off was my fasting glucose. I was really stressed due to my taxes. Stress, lack of sleep, and diet, all affect glucose and insulin. 

I consistently have low readings of my fasting glucose and I measure it every other day. 

Work on getting your markers as I mentioned above down, and you should be good.  

Let me know if you need some help. Ask more questions.

Thanks for dropping by and your comment.

Jimmy.

Thanks for sharing your experience in managing high blood sugar levels when we are diagnosed with diabetes.

I am a Type 2 diabetic, and my doctors say A1c testing gives a more accurate picture of the severity of diabetes than blood sugar levels. I thought you might know how to test A1c test from home itself? Would you recommend the A1CNow System?

Thanks.

Hello Wilfredo,

Are all of the meds related to the type 2 diabetes? If the answer is yes, then next question is does your dad want to get off of the meds? 

My disclaimer make sure you get an OK from your doctor before you stop taking any meds, I am not a doctor and do not prescribe medication of any kind.

Type 2 diabetes is a dietary disease and a high sugary processed food diet will absolutely cause metabolic issues.

Obesity, non alcoholic fatty liver disease, insulin resistance, high blood sugar, high blood pressure, high triglycerides,  and low HDL. 

You can have insulin resistance for years, decades and then a stroke or heart attack hits you before you are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Unfortunately, a type 2 diabetic has a 5 x risk for stroke and heart attack.

Convince your dad to have a look at my site, I have a huge Recommended Books to Read page check that out.

Let me know how it works out, we can help your dad naturally. 

Thanks for dropping by and your comments.

Jimmy.

Hello Dorcas,

I am glad to see you are concerned, my fasting insulin, A1c, triglycerides, and HDL are all low. My fasting blood sugar jumped for a couple of days because of my taxes (stressed out). I though I was going to pay thousands of dollars when I should have given them to my accountant.

She managed to get me down to less than a thousand on my tax return.

I now occasionally measure my fasting blood sugar it hovers at 5.0 mmol/L – 90 mg/dl. I am not to worried about my blood sugar.  If anything my major concern is my insulin. I am shooting for an insulin sensitivity of around 1.0 or so.

I am now in a routine where I fast everyday for 16 to 18 hours and eat 2 low carb high fat meals.  No sugar or processed foods. 

My doctor I am sorry to say does not understand metabolic issues. I had to tell him which tests I should have performed. One thing I will say is he is always taking notes and slowly learning.

Now that we are talking numbers, what are your blood panel numbers?

Get back to me.

Thanks for dropping by and your comments.

Jimmy.