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I did mine this morning and got off to a very bad start with my FBG. It was higher than it has been for a long time. I re-tested (just in case) and it was even higher! I gave up and used the original one. 5.9mmol/l. This has to be due to my pathetic attempt to eat more carbs yesterday.

Then it went from bad to worse. Peaked at 13.6 at 60 minutes, 11 at 2 hours, 5.8 at 165 minutes, then gave up.
I have just tested for a pre-lunch figure and I'm now 4.4

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A big thank you to @bulkbiker , @CherryAA , and @Bluetit1802 for doing this test - fascinating stuff and very brave. I would be willing to have a go at this once I get my next Hba1C done (end of Sep) - I know it probably wouldn't make that much difference as a one off, but cant bring myself to do it before -
 
Element137 said:
A big thank you to @bulkbiker , @CherryAA , and @Bluetit1802 for doing this test - fascinating stuff and very brave. I would be willing to have a go at this once I get my next Hba1C done (end of Sep) - I know it probably wouldn't make that much difference as a one off, but cant bring myself to do it before -
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I hope you do, and hope you post your results!

I thought I was being VERY brave. I made the decision to do one a couple of months ago and kept putting it off. I found the Rapilose solution a long time back. It was only when people here began doing it that I took the bull by the horns. I ummed and ahhhed about whether to increase carbs to above 150g for 3 days prior and in the end made a hash of it. I was very nervous, but once I started it was fine. I had a very lazy morning sitting at my computer still unwashed and in dressing gown, which was quite nice. My poor meter was worked over time, and my fingers took a hammering. My results are disappointing and I'm not sure what they tell me, especially as I didn't "carb up" properly. However, it is worth a try.
 
Bluetit1802 said:
I hope you do, and hope you post your results!

I thought I was being VERY brave. I made the decision to do one a couple of months ago and kept putting it off. I found the Rapilose solution a long time back. It was only when people here began doing it that I took the bull by the horns. I ummed and ahhhed about whether to increase carbs to above 150g for 3 days prior and in the end made a hash of it. I was very nervous, but once I started it was fine. I had a very lazy morning sitting at my computer still unwashed and in dressing gown, which was quite nice. My poor meter was worked over time, and my fingers took a hammering. My results are disappointing and I'm not sure what they tell me, especially as I didn't "carb up" properly. However, it is worth a try.
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Not sure I would say they are disappointing.. just took a bit longer to come down but come down they did!
Your total rise wasn't a lot more than mine and interesting that you ended up in the 4's like I did. Looks like our responses are pretty similar.
 
bulkbiker said:
Not sure I would say they are disappointing.. just took a bit longer to come down but come down they did!
Your total rise wasn't a lot more than mine and interesting that you ended up in the 4's like I did. Looks like our responses are pretty similar.
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That is very kind of you to say that! :) It looks like I have a delayed insulin response, but I am consoling myself that this is due to not carbing up properly. My pancreas was asleep. I think it would put me in the Impaired Glucose Tolerance group had it been a diagnosis. It wasn't so horrendous to do so I will have another go but will try to carb up beforehand. That is the difficult bit! It's years since I ate more than 30g carbs other than the odd occasion.
 
On a management course I attended they told the following story...
A farmer needed to weigh a piglet so he tied it to one end of a pole, balanced it over a log then added stones to the other end of the pole until it exactly balanced - then he guessed the weight of the stones.
The moral of the story was that it doesn't matter how accurate your measurement method if you don't know what the results mean.
 
Bluetit1802 said:
That is very kind of you to say that! :) It looks like I have a delayed insulin response, but I am consoling myself that this is due to not carbing up properly. My pancreas was asleep. I think it would put me in the Impaired Glucose Tolerance group had it been a diagnosis. It wasn't so horrendous to do so I will have another go but will try to carb up beforehand. That is the difficult bit! It's years since I ate more than 30g carbs other than the odd occasion.
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I think you did brilliantly and it must be nice to know that your insulin is still working. You got a really nice fall even if you were dissatisfied with the time. It wasn't a lot after the 2 hour mark. All in all really interesting.
 
Fleegle said:
I think you did brilliantly and it must be nice to know that your insulin is still working. You got a really nice fall even if you were dissatisfied with the time. It wasn't a lot after the 2 hour mark. All in all really interesting.
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Thank you. :) The weird thing is, I am still in the 4s now, 6 hours after starting, and I've had my lunch! I'll take that. :)
 
@bluetit, congratulations for doing it.
Dont be disappointed. Your body took on a big shock of sugar And it Coped! no drugs. It dealt with it. Sure a tad longer than some but so what!
You still ended up in the fives quckly enough :) so congratulate yourself on a job well done. :)

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Can I ask @CherryAA and @bulkbiker what happened the rest of the day after you did it?

I dropped to 4.4 before lunch (may have been earlier, I don't know. This is a bit low for me at this time), stayed in the 4s after lunch right through the afternoon. Usually in the 5s. Then 4.6 before tea at 7pm. (That is fairly normal at tea time), and a small rise after tea. It just seems a bit strange ... but I'm not complaining.
 
I went down to 4's then back up to low 5's for the rest of the day .. and then a 5.9 FBG the following morning.. no idea where that came from..
 
CherryAA said:
Well if you did, I would make a bet that your results will be much better than mine :)
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Not sure about that but I'll see if I can find the goo here in Australia & start planning - need to be a bit more relaxed about the idea or my stress levels could mess with the result.

Good news is I'm a long-time meal planner so shouldn't find it too hard to replicate my pre low carb diet in the 3 day carb-up stage.
 
Bravo @Bluetit1802 - given you were a bit anxious & didn't carb up the way you had wished I think that's a pretty good response :) I do hope we see a few more. I think I just need to be OK with the possibility I might fail again & that its OK if I do - I've no plans to move away from low carb so wheres the harm right?
 
Safi said:
Bravo @Bluetit1802 - given you were a bit anxious & didn't carb up the way you had wished I think that's a pretty good response :) I do hope we see a few more. I think I just need to be OK with the possibility I might fail again & that its OK if I do - I've no plans to move away from low carb so wheres the harm right?
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Go for it. I was so nervous, but it was fine in the end and I wasn't stressed whilst doing it.
 
CherryAA said:
I have no idea if this is linked - but if you look at our signature you will find that both @bulkbiker and I have almost the same levels of both HDL and Trigs in our bloods on our recent tests.

In my first few months, despite improvements elsewhere. My HDL stayed stubbornly low for the first 6 months and it took about 12 months to get to a healthy level.

If you look at this chart
http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/you-can-measure-your-own-insulin-resistance.126095/

You will see that you are at about the same stage I was after 6 months in terms of Trigs and HDL . It will be interesting to see if your new results follow down a similar path.

Its a pity more people don't post their fasting blood glucose, and cholesterol make up on the same day each time they get their Hba1C results then we could see if there is a pattern to this !
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Very interesting. I had bloods taken last week - will get results on Friday (vaguaries of my surgery) but they only did the HbA1c. Will ask them for cholesterol make up on next test.
 
I cannot remember whom but someone posted this previously - given your OGTT tests @CherryAA @bulkbiker & @Bluetit1802 I thought it might be good to compare against this. It may not...

http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/43067769.php

It looks to me as if you all had better results than Suzy (in the worked example) and even better when you consider that the example here was 60G and not pure glucose, would have needed to be converted even if quickly.

In particular it reminded me that each 1g of carb converts approximately to .3mmol of glucose so when you consume 75g that is a 22.5 rise - added to your FBG in your case 5.9 @Bluetit1802 gives a whopping 28.4 peek if you had zero insulin. So the fact that you only reached what you did suggests that both your background and first phase response wasn't too bad at all (and the liver gap of course). Whether it was IR or slower response from the pancreas that gives the decayed fall I have no idea but you should be delighted with your results. I hope of these one day.

So again - I think you all coped brilliantly.
 
Fleegle said:
It looks to me as if you all had better results than Suzy (in the worked example) and even better when you consider that the example here was 60G and not pure glucose, would have needed to be converted even if quickly.
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Yes, the best thing about glugging down 75g of pure glucose is there is no protein, fibre or fat involved to mess up the digestive process. You can see at a glance what it does without having to take other nutrients into account. It doesn't work the same with a bagel or a meal containing 75g carbs. The meal I had the night before that left me with that high FBG had around 75g carbs in it. I didn't go above 7.5mmol/l but I never got back to anywhere near my pre-meal level. (That meal had 2.5 times the amount of carbs I eat in a typical day!)
 
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