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Originally Posted by janieg
I finally found a link I'd been looking for, and wanted to post it here for anyone who is going to go down the path of checking for blood sugar issues.
For those who don't know me, I pass all normal diabetic screening tests with flying colors, but below is what further investigation on my part showed.
After a very high carb meal of pasta and bread, this is what my blood sugar did:
Pre-meal: 85
30 minutes post-meal: 166
1 hour post-meal: 162 (under 140 deemed normal)
2 hours post-meal: 166 (under 120 deemed normal)
3 hours post-meal: 148
4 hours post-meal: 128
6 hours post-meal: 82
It took me over 4 hours to return to what would be considered normal post meal blood sugar levels when I should have been there in two hours.
This link tells you how to test with a glucose meter and interpret the results:
http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/14046889.php
This link shows what normal blood sugar levels should be. I've read as high as 188.
http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/16422495.php
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What's funny is I had a 2 hour blood glucose test which was 90 (pre) - 120 (1hour post) - 90 (2 hours post), all great numbers according to my doc. My A1C is 5.3, again great. Fasting Glucose of 83 and 90 most recently.
But then, i can eat something like what you mentioned and really rise up to areas of 168 ish and hour or two after and see a very slow fall back to just barely below 100. It can sometimes have me hanging up at 100-105 into the next morning. Very odd.
The glucose drink used in the GTT is pure sugar and we often react fine in that test. But it is only 75g of sugar. There are meals that actually can go way above what you get on a GTT. Also things like Dairy will have your blood sugar slowly rise and slowly fall. So you can be sitting at a high reading for a while.
I myself put a lot more stock into results obtained from a needle that takes a lot more blood though. The glucose meters are ok but they are really only good for tracking how levels change and dramatic differences over time. Their accuracy can be off by 10 - 20 depending upon the meter. So, you can make yourself a little crazy over a reading of 105 when you may really be 90. Or a 180 that may be closer to 160.
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