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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KennyA" data-source="post: 2629429" data-attributes="member: 517579">Hi, and welcome. You say you don't have diabetes.  I'm guessing though that there's some history in your family, which is why you might be worried.  Tingling (as you describe) can be diabetes related but it can also be a lot of other things, and nobody here is going to attempt a diagnosis. The standard blood glucose food testing regime is to test immediately before eating (which gives you a baseline) and then two hours after finishing (which tells you how well your body coped with whatever carbs were in what you ate).  Everyone's (non-diabetic and diabetic) blood glucose levels will rise after eating carb, as they're digested to glucose and pass into the bloodstream. This should trigger an insulin response, which should shift the glucose out of the blood and into muscle cells for use as energy. If you have insulin resistance, however, the insulin isn't as effective and therefore the glucose takes longer to be moved out of the blood. Go on with this long enough and raised blood glucose levels will lead to a diagnosis of diabetes, as well as possibly unwanted symptoms. You ate quite a lot of carbohydrate and sugar.   Chips, bread, beans, and orange juice are all high-carb and/or high sugar items.  After 30 minutes I would expect a high reading (one latte will take me to 8s and 9s after 30 mins) and probably a lot higher than your 9.1.  The two bits of information you don't have is where you were at the beginning and after two hours. If after two hours you were still at 9.1 (or similar), that points one way, if the 2 hr reading  was 6.0 that points another - providing it's close enough to the baseline reading.  It might be worth repeating the process with a carby meal and doing the baseline and +2hr testing.  That should give you some more information.</blockquote>

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