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As Lucozade has changed its recipe is there something else that I could use to do a DIY OGTT?
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<blockquote data-quote="Bluetit1802" data-source="post: 1702969" data-attributes="member: 94045"><p>At my surgery a doctor or nurse has to order a blood test with the phlebotomist. It may vary elsewhere.</p><p>I agree, a higher HbA1c will give you some motivation to lower it by the next test.</p><p></p><p>Yes, your post meal levels are higher than acceptable, and reflect your carb consumption. Are you keeping a detailed food diary including portion sizes and all the ingredients, and are you recording your levels alongside? You can use this to look for patterns, analyse why some of the rises are happening, and tweak the meal appropriately. It may be you are mixing your carbs which then total more than your body can cope with in a single meal, so that would mean eliminating one of the carbs and trying again. </p><p></p><p>Personally I can eat 2 potatoes (new, roast, chipped) without a spike, but if I combine these with carrots and gravy, I see higher spikes, so I keep the gravy amount very low and severely restrict the amount of carrots. We all have a total carb tolerance for each meal, and at each time of day. I can't eat any proper carbs at breakfast but can eat those same carbs later in the day. If I exceed around 25g in one meal, I will spike. You can find your own tolerance levels at breakfast, lunch and dinner, but it is all trial and error, and mistakes will be made. Then hopefully, we can learn from our mistakes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bluetit1802, post: 1702969, member: 94045"] At my surgery a doctor or nurse has to order a blood test with the phlebotomist. It may vary elsewhere. I agree, a higher HbA1c will give you some motivation to lower it by the next test. Yes, your post meal levels are higher than acceptable, and reflect your carb consumption. Are you keeping a detailed food diary including portion sizes and all the ingredients, and are you recording your levels alongside? You can use this to look for patterns, analyse why some of the rises are happening, and tweak the meal appropriately. It may be you are mixing your carbs which then total more than your body can cope with in a single meal, so that would mean eliminating one of the carbs and trying again. Personally I can eat 2 potatoes (new, roast, chipped) without a spike, but if I combine these with carrots and gravy, I see higher spikes, so I keep the gravy amount very low and severely restrict the amount of carrots. We all have a total carb tolerance for each meal, and at each time of day. I can't eat any proper carbs at breakfast but can eat those same carbs later in the day. If I exceed around 25g in one meal, I will spike. You can find your own tolerance levels at breakfast, lunch and dinner, but it is all trial and error, and mistakes will be made. Then hopefully, we can learn from our mistakes. [/QUOTE]
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