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<blockquote data-quote="Yorksman" data-source="post: 621320" data-attributes="member: 55568"><p>Your earlier test results look ok. The sweet and sour stir fry would push you up of course but you were back down to normal levels within a couple of hours.</p><p></p><p>Don't stress about one reading of 10.3. Start to think about investigating further when you get several unexplained high readings. One reading means nothing. Firstly, meters are not accurate and secondly, capillary blood samples from finger pricks are not that good either. Odd results happen. Only when you get lots of them do you think about doing something.</p><p></p><p>When glucose is produced by the body from its own stores, as opposed to eating something, it is released in a lump as it were. It takes an hour for it to spread uniformly throught the blood supply. In the first 15 mins, it is like you have sugar lump floating around. To ease my own mind, when I see one of these funnies, whicg are rare, I take a reading 30 mins and 60 mins after, without eating anything. That gives the glucose time to spread more evenly. Every time, it is much lower. You can also test another finger at the same time, preferably on the other hand. It is not unusual to have several points difference.</p><p></p><p>It is always normal for BG levels to go up after meals but the important thing is that they are below 7.8 two hours after, though personally I like them to be below 7.0. If you are worried, try cutting back on things like sweet and sour, in fact, all sweet stuff. Try taking some exercise too and see what the effect is on your BG levels then. They will in most cases be noticably lower.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yorksman, post: 621320, member: 55568"] Your earlier test results look ok. The sweet and sour stir fry would push you up of course but you were back down to normal levels within a couple of hours. Don't stress about one reading of 10.3. Start to think about investigating further when you get several unexplained high readings. One reading means nothing. Firstly, meters are not accurate and secondly, capillary blood samples from finger pricks are not that good either. Odd results happen. Only when you get lots of them do you think about doing something. When glucose is produced by the body from its own stores, as opposed to eating something, it is released in a lump as it were. It takes an hour for it to spread uniformly throught the blood supply. In the first 15 mins, it is like you have sugar lump floating around. To ease my own mind, when I see one of these funnies, whicg are rare, I take a reading 30 mins and 60 mins after, without eating anything. That gives the glucose time to spread more evenly. Every time, it is much lower. You can also test another finger at the same time, preferably on the other hand. It is not unusual to have several points difference. It is always normal for BG levels to go up after meals but the important thing is that they are below 7.8 two hours after, though personally I like them to be below 7.0. If you are worried, try cutting back on things like sweet and sour, in fact, all sweet stuff. Try taking some exercise too and see what the effect is on your BG levels then. They will in most cases be noticably lower. [/QUOTE]
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