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17.4 mmol/l after sweets in non-diabetic - normal?
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<blockquote data-quote="19Bex88" data-source="post: 1106728" data-attributes="member: 283936"><p>Hi, I hope questions like this are allowed. While I appreciate no one here can diagnose me, I'd appreciate advice on whether this reading warrants seeing a GP. </p><p></p><p>Some background - I'm not diabetic but I have access to a glucose testing kit because as part of my dissertation at university this year I was testing people's glucose response to sugar vs artificial sweeteners. I know very little about diabetes but I know vaguely what the normal range should be and 17.4 seems high. </p><p></p><p>So on to the point - I was eating some Haribo sweets before and about 10 minutes after I stopped eating them, I started to feel uncomfortably hot (like prickly heat) all of a sudden and a weird internal-shaky feeling, as well as getting a bit of a headache. I've had these symptoms before and somewhat regularly for the last several years. I mentioned this to my GP once about 7 years ago (I'm 27 if it matters) and she was quick to dismiss it and tell me it was normal and that it was probably low blood sugar and that I needed to eat every 3-4 hours, so I never had any tests done and I just assumed that when I felt this way, I had low blood sugar due to having not eaten for a few hours. </p><p></p><p>But, because I had the glucose testing kit that I'd used for my diss available, and because this happened after I'd eaten sweets instead of happening when I was hungry like normal, I got curious and decided to test myself. As mentioned in the title, I got the 17.4 mmol/l reading. I decided to wait an hour and test again, and got 8.3 mmol/l. I still feel shaky and hot, but less so than before. </p><p></p><p>Are these numbers something to be concerned about? Should I see my GP about it? I don't want to bother her if it's completely normal, but it seems high to me. But then again, I'd just eaten sweets so I'm a bit confused. If I had no symptoms within minutes of eating then I'd have had no reason to test, so the fact that I felt bad enough to take a measurement makes me feel like this warrants investigation.</p><p></p><p>Advice?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="19Bex88, post: 1106728, member: 283936"] Hi, I hope questions like this are allowed. While I appreciate no one here can diagnose me, I'd appreciate advice on whether this reading warrants seeing a GP. Some background - I'm not diabetic but I have access to a glucose testing kit because as part of my dissertation at university this year I was testing people's glucose response to sugar vs artificial sweeteners. I know very little about diabetes but I know vaguely what the normal range should be and 17.4 seems high. So on to the point - I was eating some Haribo sweets before and about 10 minutes after I stopped eating them, I started to feel uncomfortably hot (like prickly heat) all of a sudden and a weird internal-shaky feeling, as well as getting a bit of a headache. I've had these symptoms before and somewhat regularly for the last several years. I mentioned this to my GP once about 7 years ago (I'm 27 if it matters) and she was quick to dismiss it and tell me it was normal and that it was probably low blood sugar and that I needed to eat every 3-4 hours, so I never had any tests done and I just assumed that when I felt this way, I had low blood sugar due to having not eaten for a few hours. But, because I had the glucose testing kit that I'd used for my diss available, and because this happened after I'd eaten sweets instead of happening when I was hungry like normal, I got curious and decided to test myself. As mentioned in the title, I got the 17.4 mmol/l reading. I decided to wait an hour and test again, and got 8.3 mmol/l. I still feel shaky and hot, but less so than before. Are these numbers something to be concerned about? Should I see my GP about it? I don't want to bother her if it's completely normal, but it seems high to me. But then again, I'd just eaten sweets so I'm a bit confused. If I had no symptoms within minutes of eating then I'd have had no reason to test, so the fact that I felt bad enough to take a measurement makes me feel like this warrants investigation. Advice? [/QUOTE]
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