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<blockquote data-quote="19Bex88" data-source="post: 1106783" data-attributes="member: 283936"><p>Thanks for your responses guys. </p><p></p><p>To answer your questions, Andrew</p><p></p><p>1) No I didn't wash my hands. I may consider retesting but making sure I wash my hands this time. Is it possible that I had sugar on my hands from the sweets and that caused the high reading? I'm not sure if that would affect it or not. </p><p></p><p>2) I'm really not sure if I was already heading towards a high glucose level before or not. In theory I'd imagine no because I'd not long woken up (about 30 minutes prior. So basically I had Haribo for breakfast. Not good, I know). I'd eaten a whole meal batch with just salad cream on it a couple of minutes prior to the sweets if that would make a difference? </p><p></p><p>3) I didn't retest it, no. But in regard to the 10 minute testing, I've actually done an every-ten-minute trial on myself already due to my research (I was my own guinea pig for my pilot study). I fasted for 4 hours, washed my hands with antibacterial soap and then wiped my testing finger with an alcohol swab and tested my blood. Fasting level came out at 5.3. I then drank roughly 7oz of black tea with one teaspoon of sugar in it and then tested my blood every 10 minutes for an hour. My readings were: 6.0, 7.0, 6.6, 5.3, 4.3. 4.7 respectively. </p><p></p><p>We also did a glucose tolerance test (or something similar) in class the other week where we drank 500ml of Rock Star then tested our blood 10 minutes, 30 minutes and 90 minutes after (washed hands first with antibacterial soap). My results were 8.0 (before drink) then 9.1, 8.2 and 7.2, but I hadn't fasted as I didn't know we'd be doing that experiment so it may be difficult to determine anything from those numbers given my intial reading was 8.0 and I'd literally just eaten a nutrigrain bar and had coffee with 3 sugars in about 20 minutes before.</p><p></p><p>So it's confusing and I'm not really sure what to make of all these different numbers. Some seem healthy while others don't. Still think it's worth seeing a GP about? I just feel awkward I suppose bringing it up because I know it's looked down on by some GPs if you go to them with information you've gathered yourself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="19Bex88, post: 1106783, member: 283936"] Thanks for your responses guys. To answer your questions, Andrew 1) No I didn't wash my hands. I may consider retesting but making sure I wash my hands this time. Is it possible that I had sugar on my hands from the sweets and that caused the high reading? I'm not sure if that would affect it or not. 2) I'm really not sure if I was already heading towards a high glucose level before or not. In theory I'd imagine no because I'd not long woken up (about 30 minutes prior. So basically I had Haribo for breakfast. Not good, I know). I'd eaten a whole meal batch with just salad cream on it a couple of minutes prior to the sweets if that would make a difference? 3) I didn't retest it, no. But in regard to the 10 minute testing, I've actually done an every-ten-minute trial on myself already due to my research (I was my own guinea pig for my pilot study). I fasted for 4 hours, washed my hands with antibacterial soap and then wiped my testing finger with an alcohol swab and tested my blood. Fasting level came out at 5.3. I then drank roughly 7oz of black tea with one teaspoon of sugar in it and then tested my blood every 10 minutes for an hour. My readings were: 6.0, 7.0, 6.6, 5.3, 4.3. 4.7 respectively. We also did a glucose tolerance test (or something similar) in class the other week where we drank 500ml of Rock Star then tested our blood 10 minutes, 30 minutes and 90 minutes after (washed hands first with antibacterial soap). My results were 8.0 (before drink) then 9.1, 8.2 and 7.2, but I hadn't fasted as I didn't know we'd be doing that experiment so it may be difficult to determine anything from those numbers given my intial reading was 8.0 and I'd literally just eaten a nutrigrain bar and had coffee with 3 sugars in about 20 minutes before. So it's confusing and I'm not really sure what to make of all these different numbers. Some seem healthy while others don't. Still think it's worth seeing a GP about? I just feel awkward I suppose bringing it up because I know it's looked down on by some GPs if you go to them with information you've gathered yourself. [/QUOTE]
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