No. I think the issue is what you’re posting is some link you use as a logged-in user. You need to set it up so somebody who is other than you can see it.
But the errors I’m getting are 404, not 403. Which suggests public/private isn’t the issue, but instead the issue is the url is not complete for some reason. Be sure that you are first displaying the pic on your screen, then choose the “share” option, then posting whatever link that is. Not the url of whatever page you’re looking at.
Google deliberately makes it very hard to share a pic directly like that. They want to serve a whole page with ads and tracking a& such.
I can see it when I click on it, but I can’t share it to the world. Is there a place where I can share a photo publicly for free? And why isn’t this possible with the SD software?
You can share a photo stored anywhere on the internet that’s publicly available. Your problem is not Discourse / SDMB. Your problem is that you are not finding and posting the url that anyone anywhere in the world can see. Your url appears to be a search result url within your google account. That won’t work.
Store your photo in a folder that you have configured so the whole internet can see the photos in that folder. then click on the pic and use the “share” feature to get a url that google is willing to show all of us. Then paste that url into your post.
Try opening your links in Incognito/“private window” mode (and don’t log in to Google there!). That should allow you to check that the link will be accessible to others, before you post them.
I was looking at the data and suddenly realized I was pulling my Fasting Blood Glucose (FBG) at 7 a.m. which was too close to when the Dawn Effect (DE) was happening. I normally wake up at 6 a.m, and sunrise where I live is about 6:30 a.m. Because of this I instead pulled data from 3 a.m., many hours before the DE starts, to give me a better number for my FBG. Low and behold, my FBG was on average 12 mg/dl lower at 3 a.m. than 7 a.m., with the lowest reading being 85 mg/dl, well within the normal range for someone my age. (Which may be one reason why my doctor wasn’t concerned with my lab results, although he never mentioned the DE to me.) I would think you would want to eliminate any possible DE from causing a higher number than it should be. If this continues to hold up, I can stop worrying about having a high FBG level, which was one reason I wanted the CGM in the first place. Let me know if you disagree with this conclusion, or if I’m missing something.
folks here often use Flickr, I think, although there are lots of other places you can dump a photo. And the SD software can host photos just fine, but then the site needs to pay for storage. Management has decided that they don’t want to do that, and have turned off photo hosting for the SDMB.
fwiw, I basically never share photos here because of that, but maybe I’m lazier than many posters.
I am not a doctor, and know less than you about this stuff. But if the thing that made you concerned has turned out to be an artifact, and not what you thought it was, then yeah, I think you can stop worrying. It’s not as if your monitoring has turned up any other problems than you’ve mentioned. Everything else you’ve said sounds pretty normal, with your blood sugar reacting in ordinary ways to ordinary triggers like eating and exercising.
Thanks. According to the article,“Conclusion: To optimise treatment, persons with diabetes should be advised to measure their FBS before 7.30 am.” I think this applies to diabetes taking insulin, as opposed to non-diabetics. I will take a closer look at my daily Dawn Effect to see when it typically starts and for how long the effect lasts.
Dawn happens at different times in different altitudes and through the year. Their result is based on their particular clinic during a particular period of time. They give the dates that they were testing so, if you also identify the location of their clinic, you would be able to determine the average time that the sun was rising for them and extrapolate that to your local situation.
They should have written that it’s best to test X minutes after sunrise rather than, specifically, 6:30.
I suspect that time of sunrise is actually less material than how one’s body clock is set? When they typically wake up and what activity they start to do. As an early riser who then exercises first thing every day my dawn rise is likely very different than my wife’s, who sleeps later and does not do morning exercise or even eat much in the mornings.
The point though most relevant to the question at hand I think is that they want the FBG to reflect the value before any dawn phenomenon kicks in.
What I see, looking at my data, is that for me, the Dawn Effect starts around 6:30 a.m. this time of year in NW Montana, about 30 minutes prior to sunrise. I also see that once DE starts my blood sugar stays elevated throughout the day and into the evening until very late at night before dropping back down to fasting level. I guess this makes sense since I eat three meals during the day which should keep my blood sugar elevated, but I don’t know why it should take eight hours following my last meal before it finally goes back down to fasting level. That may be perfectly normal. I have no idea.
This. While actual dawn can help set your body clock, i have to think that what’s very being measured here is the body getting ready to start the day, and that happens at different time for different people.
I agree with this, and looking at my CGM data I see my blood sugar rise just around 6 a.m., which is the time I wake up and get out of bed, and it doesn’t go back down to baseline levels until well after midnight. Around here, it starts to get light around 6:30 a.m. for whatever that’s worth.
I should also mention that my morning wake-up routine is consistent year round, regardless of what time I go to bed, how tired I am, or when the sun rises or sets. I usually fall asleep around 10:30 p.m. and wake up at around 6 a.m. Apparently I only need 7.5 good hours of sleep per day. I’ve never been able to sleep in like my wife.
It seems that most people come back down to fasting levels by 3 hours. FWIW. No idea about significance or lack thereof. Again the widely available data is ahead of the research that allows understanding what it means.
Thanks for finding that. I just got my labs for the last 7 years and it looks like in 2017 my FBG was 82, but since then it’s been getting higher almost every year. From 82 to 100 in 7 years seems like a precipitates climb, and I can’t think of anything other than Insulin Resistance that could cause it. My diet has dramatically changed in that time, and I’m eating much better now than I did seven years ago. Go figure.
BTW, on the subject of fruit, I’m struggling because of the glucose spikes as well as the negative impact of fructose on my liver. I’m healthy, so I may be worrying about nothing here. Fruit has a lot of good nutrients and anti-oxidants that are good for us, but all the fructose and glucose in fruit isn’t all that good for us in excess. Do you ignore the downsides and simply moderate your intake? What does moderate mean? Is there a safe limit to how much fruit one should eat daily or weekly? I put blackberries in my yogurt every morning, but they are low fructose.
There is an argument (made in this thread) that a diet high in fruit is best avoided in those who have NAFLD (non-alcoholic fatty liver disease). I can find some research that supports those with that condition keeping to under two servings a day as opposed to over four. There is no research I can find that supports any need for people with that condition to completely abstain. Even for them up to two servings a day is fine according to the research currently available.
And in terms of causing or preventing NAFLD, there are many studies like this one. Those eating higher amounts of fruit are less likely to have NAFLD, but the effect is mediated by excess body mass in those who eat less and there is no impact when controlling for BMI. The lack of impact is found even in diabetics.
I wouldn’t advise eating so much fruit that you displace vegetables, and adequate intake of other desired foods, but two or three servings a day is definitely okay.
ETA - about the significance or not of your slow drop. IF (big if) flatter is better, maybe that holds true on the drop side too? We just don’t yet know.
Now I know what they mean by “ignorance is bliss”. I learned about NAFLD a few months ago. I was eating as much fruit as I wanted since fruit was a natural whole food and completely unprocessed. It’s good to know that eating fruit doesn’t promote NAFLD, but obesity does. Another good reason to keep your weight down to where it should be… at BMI 25 or lower.
Public science is often dumbed down. Your body can safely digest considerable amounts of fructose. Your body needs to digest food to get energy and most of this is quickly used, so not stored. The problem isn’t from eating unsweetened whole fruit. A cup of unsweetened strawberries has 10g of sugar; an apple 10-20g depending on size and type. Maybe half is fructose, and fruits are mixed with fibre that lowers the glycemic index and delayed digestion causes less of a glucose spike.
A fast food chocolate milkshake has 80g of sugar and little fibre. Half of table sugar and about half of corn syrup is fructose. You often eat eight cups of strawberries? More than one apple? The problem, for susceptible people, and not everyone is, is overwhelming amounts of fructose in the absence of fibre. I wouldn’t worry about eating fruit. I don’t even count fruits and vegetables when determining my glucose intake - too little to matter in comparison to all the other sweetened goo available.