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An unusual reading.

Inchindown

Inchindown

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Two hours after lunch today, my sugar level was 6.3. Pretty normal for me. At 2 p.m., I ate a cheese and Onion Sandwich. I've just tested my sugar at 5pm and found it to be 10.1. This is unusual for me. I would have expected it to be under 6.0. Does anyone have an explanation for this unusual sugar reading. I did do the test more than once, and the results were consistent.

Thanks.
 
@Inchindown The fat content in the cheese may have slowed the metabolization of the carbs in the bread which led to a reading of 10.1 3 hours later. There are, of course, many things that can raise our blood sugars other than food. Without continuously monitoring your blood sugars it's hard to say from finger pricks how high your blood sugars go after eating bread. Mine go into the mid teens after eating bread, but every one is different, and it would not be a stretch fir mine to come down a bit then rise again a few our later.

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@Inchindown As mentioned above, there are over 40 things as well as food, which affect blood glucose.
Aa a diet-controlled Type 2 (in remission) I have just had a blood draw for an HbA1C reading - no number yet. This encouraged me to test my BG levels mor than usual (otherwise I only test about twice a month i.e. both sides of a meal).

I was surprised that my BG varied much more than 'usual'. With no illness or change in medication, at first, I thought it may have been due to perhaps eating slightly larger portions of (low carb) food, but my control tests were inconclusive, as was eating either more or fewer strawberries. Even the temperature and how well/badly I slept seemed inconclusive as di exercise (brisk walking, strenuous gardening, vacuum cleaning etc.). The cause is still unknown, however although I eat cheese and I eat onion, I never eat bread. Fortunately, my BG fluctuations were only in the 5's rather than 6's at the lows up to a few times reaching 8.1 high. My diet hardly changes from week to week even between winter and summer.
 
Antje77 said:
Yes, but do you usually test before your evening meal, and is this usually 3 hours after your previous meal?

If you regularly test before evening meal but also have your lunch earlier, you could have missed the higher than expected number.
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Yes, I usually test before my evening meal. This helps with my choice of menu. I don't test before or after every intake of food. My confusion is how different this one reading was compared to similar circumstances over many days. The only difference today was I had a cheese and onion sandwich. Most other days, I would have had a ham sandwich at that time.
 
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