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Am I just in denial?

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Double

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My normal bgl fasting morning is average 6.8, pre-dinner 9.2 and 2 hours after a plate of fish and chips its 7.0.

I was diagnosed last week after a glucose tollerance test, i would have thought if i was infact diabetic the dinner should have raised my bgl a lot. I am metformin 500mg twice a day. Have the doctors got it wrong, or am i just in denial?

I do have a Cholesterol level of 8, and a "bright" liver on a ultrasound, smoker, non-drinker aged 40
 
A non diabetics blood sugar would never go up to 9.2.
Blood sugars are complicted things.

Your pancreas made enough insulin for that meal, which is why it went down.
It's generally a balancing act between carbs, medications and lifestyle.
It can take a long time to come to terms with, and properly deal with what's happened.

I know this must be hard for you, but pay attention to your body, work with your doctor, and you'll find some good meds that will keep you healthy for a long time.
 
A plate of fish and chips is a lot of fat so I would suggest that you should have tested at 3 hours as the fat would slow down the absorption of carbs.
 
When you eat a lot of fat with carbohydrate, it can slow down that carbohydrate spike. I believe this is known as the "pizza effect".

You need to test regularly (every hour for about 5-6 hours maybe :? , expensive, huh?) after you have eaten because what you might find is that your blood glucose levels go up slower but remain elevated for a longer period or the spike hits you much later.

Also, try eating an equivalent amount of potato prepared without the fat. Then test :shock: Potato send my levels through the roof quite quickly!

It isn't about being in denial, it is about conducting your own personal science experiement. You need to find out how your own particular diabetic body works and if it works differntly at different times of the day. Test! Test! Test!
 
Many thanks, for your posts, i am new to this and it helps to know there are folk out there that know what they are talking about.

Many many thanks. I will test some more and find out when i peak.
 
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Did you have vinegar on your fish and chips? As I'm pretty sure I've read smewhere that that too can slow down stomach emptying/digestion just like oil, a double wammy perhaps, which could move the 'spike' back an hour or so.
 
Thank you, i hope my reflux goes away as well, I am wearing my "L" plates at this at the moment, Another thing i noticed was people talk of hypo with a bgl under 4, I get sweaty, ill, shivering / shakey, and just not quite there feeling at about 5.6, seems far too high to be a hypo, though it is cured by a couple of buscuits bringing my bgl up to about 7 any suggestions?
 
There is so much to learn, though i do now understand what is going on with the false hypo :D

I had a docs appointment today, all I managed to find out was that my fasting glucose level was ok, though the OGTT was way too high. Metformin must be doing its job so far, though it is tempting just to say its only a little diabetes, and nothing to worry about. I know this is not the case, though it is handy to pretend that when its convenient :oops:

Like many folk i guess, i am still partially believing that it will go away with the metformin and i just shouldn't eat sugar, chocolate and sweet things. Deep down however i know how bad it can get.

My friend was diagnosed some 4 years back, he started on tablets, then more tablets, then insulin, and then after not hearing from him for 4 days my wife and i put his front door in and found him passed away. The reason.... He believed that the insulin was all he had to take to keep him ok, he didn't change his diet, ate takeaways nearly every day, ate sweets, chocolate, and full fat everything... the resulting heart attack killed him on the spot. Yet still a part of me feels i am not as bad as him, though thats what he would have said if he had known somebody else with diabetes!
 
I am sorry to hear about your friend, Double. Diabetes is not a condition to be trivialised is it :( I didn't realise how serious it was until my GP told me I had T2 (even tho I'd had gestational diabetes, which did go away).

My own terrible warning is my dad :( He died last year aged 80 with what I now realise were the long term complications of poorly managed diabetes, the last 5 years of his life were very poor quality.
 
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