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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="Alexandra100" data-source="post: 1703177" data-attributes="member: 429870"><p>IMO yes, that is too high. I don't understand why you want another test at your doctor's, either A1c or OGTT. Your after meal tests are already telling you what you need to know - that you need to do something to lower your bg after meals, and the obvious thing to do is eat fewer carbs in those meals. The A1c test is only an average. Even if it came out lower this time, that number could be composed of highs after meals and lows at other times, which is not at all what you want. Spikes are harmful. And if you do an OGTT and it comes out well, so what? Maybe you react better to Lucozade or equivalent than you do to the bread or potatoes or biscuits or whatever in your normal diet. Maybe your stomach is slow to empty and the spike only comes 3 hours or later after the Lucozade. Are you going to say that because you got a good OGTT number, your after-meal numbers don't matter?</p><p></p><p>I am glad I'll be having another A1c test in 3 months, because I don't get up in the middle of the night to test, and also it will save me a lot of head scratching trying to average out my home testing numbers, but on the whole I see my home testing numbers as more important. I definitely won't be doing an OGTT test, because I don't want to treat my poor body so badly, after all the efforts I have made to give it the lower bg it needs. Even if a test "proved" that I am not diabetic, I'd still have to go on eating under 20 carbs a day to avoid seeing damagingly high bg after meals, so what would be the good of that?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alexandra100, post: 1703177, member: 429870"] IMO yes, that is too high. I don't understand why you want another test at your doctor's, either A1c or OGTT. Your after meal tests are already telling you what you need to know - that you need to do something to lower your bg after meals, and the obvious thing to do is eat fewer carbs in those meals. The A1c test is only an average. Even if it came out lower this time, that number could be composed of highs after meals and lows at other times, which is not at all what you want. Spikes are harmful. And if you do an OGTT and it comes out well, so what? Maybe you react better to Lucozade or equivalent than you do to the bread or potatoes or biscuits or whatever in your normal diet. Maybe your stomach is slow to empty and the spike only comes 3 hours or later after the Lucozade. Are you going to say that because you got a good OGTT number, your after-meal numbers don't matter? I am glad I'll be having another A1c test in 3 months, because I don't get up in the middle of the night to test, and also it will save me a lot of head scratching trying to average out my home testing numbers, but on the whole I see my home testing numbers as more important. I definitely won't be doing an OGTT test, because I don't want to treat my poor body so badly, after all the efforts I have made to give it the lower bg it needs. Even if a test "proved" that I am not diabetic, I'd still have to go on eating under 20 carbs a day to avoid seeing damagingly high bg after meals, so what would be the good of that? [/QUOTE]
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