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BG levels have dropped to normal?

white43 said:
Last night, in another 'test', I ate a pack of instant noodles - about 80g of carb and pretty high in fat. I started at 5.6mmol, after one hour went to 5.9, two hours went to 8mmol and stayed there. In the morning I was 5.7mmol.
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The reason that the 80g carbs was slow to convert into glucose was because of the fat. A normal meal will create a BS peak at around 1 hour after eating, and after 2 hours your BS should have dropped back almost to where it started. But fat slows the process so the peak would be at around 2 hours and then come down quite slowly.

A food with a very low GI has the same effect and is converted into glucose very slowly. This can delay the peak by as much as 3 hours. So, as you can see, there is no simple answer to this.
 
Thanks Dennis, most helpful.

At the risk of sounding complacent - so did what I experience seem, normal?

I apologise for the questions, but what I'm trying to prove is that perhaps, I don't have Diabetes Type 2, but a Pre-Diabetes condition.
 
Hi White,

Don't apologise - without questions to answer some of us would have to find a life!!

I would have expected that the noodles would have pushed your BS higher than seems to be the case, but in view of the high fat content, the slow rise rise and slow drop that you did experience sounds about right. This would be a fairly normal reaction to that particular food, but I'm not qualified to say whether it is indicative of pre-diabetes.
 
Hi white,

The slow rise and fall would be normal for a diabetic or a non-diabetic so, as I said, doesn't really prove anything.
 
white43 said:
I apologise for the questions, but what I'm trying to prove is that perhaps, I don't have Diabetes Type 2, but a Pre-Diabetes condition.
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IMO that's a pretty pointless distinction as the treatment for both conditions is exactly the same. Just with "prediabetes" you still have some wiggle room.

"Technically" I am still prediabetic (by a whisker) but that didn't stop me getting peripheral and autonomic neuropathy, ****** lipids, high BP and attacks of pissing like a carthorse.
 
Trinkwasser said:
IMO that's a pretty pointless distinction as the treatment for both conditions is exactly the same. Just with "prediabetes" you still have some wiggle room.

"Technically" I am still prediabetic (by a whisker) but that didn't stop me getting peripheral and autonomic neuropathy, ****** lipids, high BP and attacks of pissing like a carthorse.
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You're right, but it's moral building if I can prove it.
 
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