Personal Reality Check!!

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Bluenosesol

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I have been getting excellent BG results lately. For a fortnight, I never got a reading above the 5's.
I was beginning to think that either a miracle had happened or maybe I was a special case where my pancreas had recovered itself or maybe even my diabetes was only temporary.
So I decided to conduct an experiment.
My non-diabetic wife and I both ate together :-
1 Mars bar, 2 chocolate biscuits, a slice of bread and a chewy cereal bar.

Her 2 hour bg test ? 5.2

My 2 hour bg test ? 12.8!!! :shock: :shock: :shock:

The highest reading I have had for over 12 months!!!

Back to the drawing board.....Miracle cure anybody?? :lol:

All the best - Steve
 
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Steve,

I'm surprised that you found your 2 hour reading shocking after what you ate, the combination of those foods would send my bg through the roof and I would cover with insulin, so for you being diet controlled it doesn't come as any surprise to me that your bg hit 12.8 after 2 hours, I bet it may have been even higher 1 hour after eating!

Now you know miracles don't happen I trust you will return to your normal diet after this experiment. :)

Regards

Nigel
 
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RoyJ

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Steve,

You're not alone in hoping miracles can happen!

I've done it, and not just the once, but I think the reality check afterwards gets me motivated to get on top of my diet and be stricter. My diet always improves after one of these reality checks!
 
totsy

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if i ate that mine would be higher :?
 
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totsy said:
if i ate that mine would be higher
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I was thinking the self same thing totsy :?

If youve had good control for a while its easy to think you can get away with more than you can.
 
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Steve.

Miracle cure........ :?: I should change your wife for a Diabetic model........ :wink:

Then you won't feel so bad........ :lol:
 
lovinglife

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Wow that much would have had me on planet zog so I would have been impressed with those numbers if I had eaten that much :lol: - I have had 1 mars bar (shared with my son) once since diagnosis and that was to treat a small hypo (nothing else was to hand on a cold railway station) - I shot up from 3.4 to 9.8!

I do understand your temptation though - it take a will of iron sometimes doesn't it? and we are all guilty of sometimes trying to "beat the system" - and it can be a useful tool to remind us that no matter how good our number we are just too sweet for own good :wink:
 
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I had a good laugh at the dietary advice given in a booklet by the nurse today. As has been documented on here lots of carbs are the order of the day. Erm no, I think
I will carry on low carbing thanks.

Ali
 
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OMG, if I ate a mars bar I would be totally zzzzz'd.

Please don't give yourself another PRC. You don't need that. If your in the 5's bg wise you are obviously doing something right. At the moment I think for most diabetics, once diagnosed it's a case of getting a new lifelong companion health wise.
 
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