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- Type of diabetes
- Gestational
- Treatment type
- Insulin
I don't test my blood sugar as regularly as I did when I was gestationally diabetic, but I do still occasionally to keep an eye on things because the one follow up oral glucose tolerance test that I had postpartum revealed a possible impaired glucose tolerance when my 1hour spike reached 12 or 13 mmol.
Today I had only cheesy scrambled eggs fried in butter for breakfast followed by a cup of tea with milk. I didn't test my fasting today but a few days ago I had one fasting of 5.1 mmol in the morning, but also an in-between-lunch-and-dinner-5-hour fast of 5.8 mmol on another day recently. So it seems to vary.
At around 11am I had a half slice of our homemade sourdough rye, which, by itself would normally only spike me in the 6s, but I was naughty and had raspberry jam on it, then followed that with a small slice of poppyseed cake from the European bakery.
I thought I should watch what it does. I didn't test before I had it but I would assume I was in the 5s.
If I had only tested at the one hour mark, I would have thought I had really healthy blood sugar levels because at 53 mins (not quite the hour), it was 6.6 mmol. The again at 1h15, it was 6.4mmol and now at 1h30 it's 6.3mmol. But I also tested at 30 mins and saw 9.1 mmol. Not ideal although I know most doctors wouldn't bat an eyelid at that level if the rest were in the 6s. I'm wondering if the low carb breakfast is enough to cause the delayed response to the carb hit if by one hour it seems to come back down.
Thoughts?
I still insist on warning myself that I'm possibly heading for diabetes to keep me on the straight and narrow as far as carbs are concerned.
Today I had only cheesy scrambled eggs fried in butter for breakfast followed by a cup of tea with milk. I didn't test my fasting today but a few days ago I had one fasting of 5.1 mmol in the morning, but also an in-between-lunch-and-dinner-5-hour fast of 5.8 mmol on another day recently. So it seems to vary.
At around 11am I had a half slice of our homemade sourdough rye, which, by itself would normally only spike me in the 6s, but I was naughty and had raspberry jam on it, then followed that with a small slice of poppyseed cake from the European bakery.
I thought I should watch what it does. I didn't test before I had it but I would assume I was in the 5s.
If I had only tested at the one hour mark, I would have thought I had really healthy blood sugar levels because at 53 mins (not quite the hour), it was 6.6 mmol. The again at 1h15, it was 6.4mmol and now at 1h30 it's 6.3mmol. But I also tested at 30 mins and saw 9.1 mmol. Not ideal although I know most doctors wouldn't bat an eyelid at that level if the rest were in the 6s. I'm wondering if the low carb breakfast is enough to cause the delayed response to the carb hit if by one hour it seems to come back down.
Thoughts?
I still insist on warning myself that I'm possibly heading for diabetes to keep me on the straight and narrow as far as carbs are concerned.