charon said:Had two Braeburn apples today with some walnuts. Felt odd so tested about half an hour later and I had gone from 5.0 to 7.1. Not drastic but surprising. A couple of hours later I was back down to 5.2 again (seems to be my base level now).
Also odd was that my hands and lower legs felt tingly, never noticed that before but may have happened.
Is this to be expected from apples?
Also surprised at how quickly it happened.
I tend to eat a lot of apples but usually one at a time. Think I might have missed spikes because the level has come down a couple of hours later - or maybe it doesn't spike as much if I have them with a meal.
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charon said:Thanks gezzathorpe.
What were the actual values and how long did it take to come down.
I would have expected the sugar to come down more quickly than the banana but have not tested either.
Think my problem with the apples was that I had not eating anything for several hours. After a meal is probably ok and will stick to a single apple.
Bit surprised about meal spikes being greater shortly after eating sugar but I see that too. Takes me a while to get things back under control after being "bad".
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charon said:Thanks for sharing that Gezzathorpe, very interesting.
I'm guessing that the peaks one hour after eating is because that is when you tested.
Bit surprised how little effect the bananas have. Haven't tried one yet but it's planned for later.
Does look like 2 hours after a meal is getting towards recovery time.
I think I'm probably making a mistake in having too long between meals - but that's what I've always done, just now they are smaller and not carb/sugar based. Could be why I've stopped getting reading in the 4's.
I need to change this because I need to stop losing weight soon.
janeecee
Can you find meals that don't affect your BG much? If I stick to bacon + eggs and meat + greens I am pretty stable and any variations are due to anything I add.
charon said:Thanks.
I'm not too worried about spikes but like to know what causes them and be confident that it's going to come down quickly.
I was diagnosed 3 months ago and am still experimenting. My first aim was to have some control which I think I have now.
There is an article saying that non-diabetics never go above about 5.0 but looking at others I suspect that meant that they come down to 5 after a couple of hours
I have few meals and dinner is probably bigger than it should be - very few carbs though.
I'm planning to go to a diet more like yours - and I think early on I was doing that. Then I was getting a base of around 4.5, now it seems to be more 5-5.5. I was a lot less sensitive to what I ate then and I thought that I was losing some control but maybe it's just that I need to eat more often and smaller quantities. I have a feeling that if I do that t won't matter so much what I eat.
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