So I've been testing closely to see what my spikes look like - just before eating, and then every 15 minutes thereafter for 2 hours. I wanted to see what was going on because when I was first diagnosed in February this year I found if I ate any carbs at all my sugar would go high and stay there for ages. But now even after a carby meal my sugar always is around 7 2 hours after eating, so very much within the guidelines. I'm on metformin and now Actos, and was very low carbing for about 4 months. Now I eat more carbs but still very low in comparison to what I was eating before. My latest hba1c was 41, before I started the Actos.
Yesterday I deliberately ate a high carb snack (4 slices of toast with jam) on an empty stomach and then tested as described above. I found that within an hour my blood sugar had risen from 5.6 to 12.1, but then an hour later was back to about 7. Much later in the day it dropped back to around 5.5. If I had just tested 2 hours after I ate I would have not known about the spike and assumed it was all fine.
What does this actually mean though? If I'm still under 8.5 2 hours after a meal as the NHS guidelines say, then does a spike like this not matter? How would a non diabetic person's sugar react to a meal like this?
Yesterday I deliberately ate a high carb snack (4 slices of toast with jam) on an empty stomach and then tested as described above. I found that within an hour my blood sugar had risen from 5.6 to 12.1, but then an hour later was back to about 7. Much later in the day it dropped back to around 5.5. If I had just tested 2 hours after I ate I would have not known about the spike and assumed it was all fine.
What does this actually mean though? If I'm still under 8.5 2 hours after a meal as the NHS guidelines say, then does a spike like this not matter? How would a non diabetic person's sugar react to a meal like this?
