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<blockquote data-quote="Nicole T" data-source="post: 2294045" data-attributes="member: 527609"><p>Sounds like what you have is diabetes, successfully managed by diet. That doesn't necessarily have to be ultra low carb. It varies from person to person.</p><p></p><p>I had 4 pints of Guinness with a friend yesterday afternoon and a further 4 cans of Carling in the evening, which is probably 100g of carbs from beer alone. Yet I only read a 6.8 this morning, which just scrapes through into the pre-diabetes rather than full diabetes range. My morning figure is usually pre-diabetic and my figures throughout the day non-diabetic. I don't seem to need to go ultra low carb to achieve this, but if I go nuts with carbs, I can easily push my sugar past 12. A non-diabetic's should never go over 11. Your system should be able to handle as many carbs as you care to throw at it, and if it can't, you are diabetic.</p><p></p><p>Get off the drugs, and you don't have to worry about hypos and other side effects. Sounds like you're doing great. But if your A1c was genuinely 90, your blood sugar has almost certainly been averaging over 11 (and peaking considerably higher) when you weren't restricting your carb intake at all.</p><p></p><p>Alcohol really muddies the water, too. The alcohol itself reduces your sugar levels as your liver proprotises processing it, and this can (at least in theory) lead to a much later spike once the carbs start being processed. Unless you're willing to test through the night, your morning fasting reading is probably the best indicator of how your body handled a heavy drinking session.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nicole T, post: 2294045, member: 527609"] Sounds like what you have is diabetes, successfully managed by diet. That doesn't necessarily have to be ultra low carb. It varies from person to person. I had 4 pints of Guinness with a friend yesterday afternoon and a further 4 cans of Carling in the evening, which is probably 100g of carbs from beer alone. Yet I only read a 6.8 this morning, which just scrapes through into the pre-diabetes rather than full diabetes range. My morning figure is usually pre-diabetic and my figures throughout the day non-diabetic. I don't seem to need to go ultra low carb to achieve this, but if I go nuts with carbs, I can easily push my sugar past 12. A non-diabetic's should never go over 11. Your system should be able to handle as many carbs as you care to throw at it, and if it can't, you are diabetic. Get off the drugs, and you don't have to worry about hypos and other side effects. Sounds like you're doing great. But if your A1c was genuinely 90, your blood sugar has almost certainly been averaging over 11 (and peaking considerably higher) when you weren't restricting your carb intake at all. Alcohol really muddies the water, too. The alcohol itself reduces your sugar levels as your liver proprotises processing it, and this can (at least in theory) lead to a much later spike once the carbs start being processed. Unless you're willing to test through the night, your morning fasting reading is probably the best indicator of how your body handled a heavy drinking session. [/QUOTE]
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