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Not wanting to just take things for granted, I will be doing blood sugar testing on my fasting days as well.  At least the first week or two... assuming the project makes it that long.  Morning, noon, and night as a general rule.  My noon(ish) reading was 268.  That tells me that my sugar replacement is a problem.  I will begin trying more of the others.  Each seems to have their own problem.  Some are simply hard on the stomach, some are just nasty one way or another.  I'll keep at it.

The goal is to have no impact from anything other than food.  Though, who knows, perhaps a blood serum rise, initially, is inevitable... even if I just drink water.  I'll be working on it anyway, looking for the least rise in blood sugar, or even something that might allow it to drop.

You read what researchers have done.  And yet, what I have found, is either my doctors didn't pass it along correctly, didn't get it right, or are just making it up... though too even directly reading research and it looks like they really, often, just either get it wrong or are idiots.  As to getting it wrong, is that in order to sell drugs, and on purpose, or does it fall to the latter.  I have to guess that a lot of people have figured out that researchers are wrong, in their practices, but they either just go along or stop looking?

I'll just do my own research.  Next up, finding the right sugar replacement or replacements.  I'm not sure a single one will do, but a combination, as much for variety as anything else, might just solve the problem.  This one is not it.  Too bad, I liked it.  Hmm... a trip to town later?  Dunno.  There are some things I do need and want.  The day is cool.  Yeah...  Maybe.

Fasting, today, is a bit sharper.  Not quite painful, more twitch inducing.  No dangerous blood sugar drop though, if I am still in the first 24-hour section, just a bit past the 15 hour mark to be precise.  Ah, while I am in town, I might see about more blood test strips.  None of those the VA sent ever did work.  What are they doing, selling medical supplies returned from Africa because of failure?  Bleh.  Sure makes me wonder about the medicine they are putting out.  Has anyone ever tested it, blindly, without them knowing?  Seriously, I don't know what their deal is, but it's not the health of vets.  I've got a dozen bottles of test strips that don't work in any tester I have, and they were made to work together... in theory.  Trash.