Is continuing blood sugar 14.5 worrying?

You have to follow a diet. I have similar readings as you do and I tried for years to keep them down without success. It was only when I went on the most restrictive diet that I could finally keep the readings in range. That means drinking mostly water and just a little bit of something else a day. You should also exercise after a meal if you can, take a walk of a kilometer or more to lower the peak levels - which takes place about 40 min - 1h 20 min after eating. Measure the effects every specific food have on your readings 40 min - 1h 20 after having water + the specific food. So understand specific foods and how they affect you. And if your readings are high sometime, you need to do some exercises + drink water to try and bring them down - try walking up a steep hill. It is important to make sure your readings are stable before you go to bed - because there will be little activity for hours. Also take note, sometimes food is digested over hours! Slowly eat or drink just a little bit over hours. But diet and exercise should keep it down. Accept the pain of drinking mostly water. Mentally accept it. That is my experience. Water and excerise is your friend.

I am unfortunately not a medical expert, but perhaps if you stuck to certain foods it will help your situation. The point is you have to remain on a diet. Perhaps eat just a little bit at a time. How water helps you is that it makes you less hungry. If you drink drinks with too high sugar, it remains in your system and I've noticed it gives your sugar levels a lift-off effect. So try and eat foods that are low in sugar. You can drink milk, eat unsweetened yoghurt, chicken, meat, fish, a little bit of fruits, some vegetables. At least that is something. But I believe a diabetic can basically eat anything. If you want to eat a piece of chocolate, or anything sweet, eat it, but keep your diet down to 95% of the good stuff and perhaps 5% of the sweet stuff a week. I think you will make it with dieting. Just keep it up, I'm sure you will gain congrol over the disease and your diet, without the strenuous exercize.

You should keep us a bit up to date if you can about your situation and your progress and the medical advice you have received. Some other things you can try: drink diluted fruit juice with water and ice cubes. Quite nice. 

I don't know what else I can tell you.

 

In my personal view now, I think you mustn't let high values persist for days on end. You should perhaps use more medicine to bring it down. It is clearly that it seems in my view as if your body or part of it shuts down if the values remain too high for too long and once it is under control, it might stay there. So I would use a higher dosage once or twice to bring it down immediately. Diet alone don't seem to stem the peaks or accelerations or lift-offs once they take place.

Hello Gill

​I hope you have got this sorted out by know,If not then i think it needs a trip to your doctor earlier then your appointment,please let us know how you are doing.

If you don't bring your levels down to between 4 and 7 mol you can have long term problems of retinopathy in the eyes and neuropathy in the feet, I personally would get another Dr's opinion also I am not being funny we put suggestions to you but you are not listening, my sugars are under control at about 6.5mol which is classed as good, also how long have you been diabetic I have been diabetic for about 13 years, and I do know what I am talking about join diabetes uk they have free leaflets you can download. I am a member of diabetes uk .Did your Dr send you on a diabetic education