I tested my sugar levels with one of those diabetes machines and apparently it w!
Question: now i have no idea what that means. But someone said it was high. Does anyone else have any ideas?
Answers: now i have no idea what that means. But someone said it was high. Does anyone else have any ideas?
first of all, you would NOT be dead if it was 7mmol. there are 2 ways to measure the blood sugar. one way is in mmol and the other is in mg/dl. The UK, Canada, and just about every other country uses mmol. The USA uses mg/dl. The normal blood sugar is between 4-7mmol (that translates to 72-126mg/dl). You are on the higher end of normal. if you think you might be diabetic, dont diagnose yourself based on one reading. One blood sugar reading means nothing. Go to the doctor if you're worried about it.
If it were truly 7, you'd be dead right now.
7 would be extrememly low and you would be dead. Make sure the machine is working correctly
yeah, that's not accurate. your blood sugars need to be under 70 and 130 mg/dl before meals, and less than 180 two hours after starting a meal - get a new meter. if you are newly diagnosed and have insurance, most insurance companies will send you a free meter.
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Normal blood glucose is 70-100. Sounds like you need some new batteries in the machine :)
Normal blood glucose (sugar) levels is 80. You are borderline diabetic if you're between 100-120. If you're above 120 on 3 readings at the doctor's office that's enough to diagnose after doing fasting blood glucose and making you drink sugar syrup. If your machine says 7 that is very very low. It means you 1) didn't have enough blood for a test, 2) your machine is not properly calibrated, 3) this is NOT a real blood sugar reading.
If you checked it with a glucometer, and it was 7, I highly doubt that'd you'd be alive right now... glucometers check people's Blood Glucose Level (BGL). Usually a person is between 90 - 110, give or take depending on when and what they've eaten. A person who had diabetes, either hypoglycemia or hyperglycemia will have higher or lower levels, but they usually try to aim for normal levels. Usually when a person has low blood sugar, they experience "altered mental status". The person does not act like themselves and depending on how low their sugar is can become unconscious. Depending on a person, they can pass out when their sugar is 30, and there are some people who are horrible at controlling their sugar and their body has become accustom to low sugar and can still be walking around with a BGL of 15... I've seen it before.
So all in all, if you did check it with a glucometer, I highly doubt it was truly 7. Glucometers need to be calibrated every so often to keep an accurate reading and the one you used might not have been correctly calibrated.
if you were a 7 you would be in a sugar coma...150 is high,400 would be high....but 7 is to low...something must be wrong with the machine...
The one who said that it was too high might be reffering to hemoglobin, a test taken by drawing blood and testing it in a lab which 7.2 is borderline high. Where did you get the machine from? If it is not yours, have the person who owns it to help you. Or go to a pharmacist or a Firehouse station to asked for help. Can't really help you online unless we know how you are testing yourself.
find a friend with a blood sugar machine or go to the er and have it checked.
Have to agree with ml88b. The way the UK and US measure are completely different so if it's a UK reading of 7 you're not heading for any kind of coma.
7 mmols is the normal sugar level.
mml88b is correct.