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<blockquote data-quote="HSSS" data-source="post: 2646314" data-attributes="member: 480869"><p>The testing after a meal does kind of need to be done with testing just before it. In pairs. It shows you how much the food you just ate affected your levels. If you don’t test before you won’t know how much it raised you by.</p><p></p><p>Eg if you start at 5 and go to 9 it raised you by 4 two hrs later, ie too many carbs for you to cope with for now. If you started at 8 and went to 9 the food itself was much better and can be considered “safe” as it only raised you by 1 even if you started a little too high beforehand.</p><p></p><p>The reasoning behind the paired testing is that a non diabetic is usually back to their starting point after 2 hrs. (Though even they might stay higher a little longer occasionally with a high carb meal). Now we are diabetic and meters aren’t precise so we aim for close to that to try and mimic a normal response controlled by our choice of food intake and allow a little leeway by saying less than 2mmol higher at the 2 hr mark.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HSSS, post: 2646314, member: 480869"] The testing after a meal does kind of need to be done with testing just before it. In pairs. It shows you how much the food you just ate affected your levels. If you don’t test before you won’t know how much it raised you by. Eg if you start at 5 and go to 9 it raised you by 4 two hrs later, ie too many carbs for you to cope with for now. If you started at 8 and went to 9 the food itself was much better and can be considered “safe” as it only raised you by 1 even if you started a little too high beforehand. The reasoning behind the paired testing is that a non diabetic is usually back to their starting point after 2 hrs. (Though even they might stay higher a little longer occasionally with a high carb meal). Now we are diabetic and meters aren’t precise so we aim for close to that to try and mimic a normal response controlled by our choice of food intake and allow a little leeway by saying less than 2mmol higher at the 2 hr mark. [/QUOTE]
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