Recent Content by chrisonator70

Alright, so I had an appointment with with my primary care doctor today. He wasn't super concerned about the spikes because they always come back down eventually, but he did order another A1C test as well as a fasting insulin level test. He recommended against the antibody tests and c-peptide...

Yes, I am finding that too with the grains. It's actually quite surprising that fruit is so acceptable though. For example, at breakfast this morning I had an omelet and a fruit (mostly frozen berries) smoothie with peanut butter and unsweetened coconut/almond milk and my blood sugar barely even...

So I ate 2 small whole grain waffles today (about 35-40 g unrefined carbs total) hoping that the lack of refined carbs would be enough to limit the spike. Unfortunately it was not, and my glucose spent a couple of hours around 220 mg/dl (12.2 mmol/l), although there was no low this time. It...

Yes, I do agree about the lowering of the carbs in my diet, and I have already reduced them quite significantly and essentially eliminated the refined ones and sugars. The doctor didn't tell me to stop testing, but just that I was probably doing it a bit too much. I think he was also taking into...

Yes that does sound like a possibility, although I only go low maybe half of the time that these spikes happen, and my real concern is with the spike itself, because eating some carbs tends to fix the low. I just called one of my university's doctors about it and he said that maybe another...

Hey all, I have always been a health anxious person, but I am concerned that I may have an actual issue this time. I recently bought a glucose meter to check my blood sugar because I sometimes get episodes of feeling tired and having heart palpitations right after meals, and then about 4 hrs...

I think that it's an interesting topic for sure. I am a healthy non-diabetic 19 year old and I have recently been checking my blood sugar on occasion due to a family history of diabetes/ heart disease, and I wanted to see what different foods would do to my glucose. I am actually surprised at...

Does that chart refer to venous or capillary blood? I ask this because all of the guidelines set by the WHO for diagnosing impaired glucose tolerance/diabetes are based on venous samples, while finger prick glucometers read capillary whole blood with an internal conversion to the equivalent...

It is normal for a non-diabetic to spike well above 7.8 using finger prick testing at one hour. I am a non diabetic 19 year old with a BMI of 20 and I have seen it as high as 10 at one hour. Its usually back under 7.8 at 2 hr, but not always if I've had a high carb meal. When I first noticed...