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BGL Lower 1hr after meal, higher after 2hrs

jooleecee

jooleecee

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Anyone know why my BGL is lower 1 hour after a meal than it is 2 hours after? I've read it should be the opposite.

For example:

Before meal: 120
1 hour after: 142
2 hours after: 175

Any ideas? This is confusing the heck out of me. I've also been starving at about the 2.5-3 hour point, then sick after I eat (sweaty, nauseated).

P.S. Currently working to control diet, and take 1k milligrams of Metformin 1st thing in the morning 1k milligrams Metformin before bed. Was taking 500mg Metformin morning/evening, increased to 1000mg (1gram) 9 days ago.

Any advice, suggestions, or insight would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

-j-
DFTBA (Don't Forget To Be Awesome!)
 
As I understand it food is absorbed at a rate in accordance with its GI and any other foods that you have eaten with it. You could record this as a rising graph if you had a pencil.

Regarding the graph I suppose it is possible that a high GI food will read higher after one hour and then get lower and a very low GI food will start out low and slowly get higher as time progresses.

It's a funny old game.
 
Thanks!

I think you're on to something, Squire. It does rise very quickly when I eat something BAD (aka sugar), then much lower within 2 hours; whereas when I eat something like half a peanut butter sandwich on multigrain bread, it goes up until about the 2.5 hour mark.

When I eat something "bad," it goes up to around 250 within an hour, then down to 150 after 2 hours.
Quite a ride.

Yay.
 
It may depend on what you eat as well -J-, the more fat the longer it takes to digest so the longer the peak in bg levels. As a general rule of thumb levels will 'peak' at around the 1 hour mark and then start to fall but that is just a general rule.

I good example of a meal taking longer is Pizza, known as the Pizza effect because the 'peak' is delayed by the fat content of the meal which is why insulin using diabetics have problems estimating/timing their insulin to fully cover this type of meal.
 
Wow, this is all very useful stuff! Glad I found the forum.

A1C BAD!!! 9.0 as of March 9. I've also been sick several times in the past three months, and my doctor suggested that could be messing with it as well. I had, however, fallen off my regime and was eating candy about every day, then wondering why I felt so bad. D'oh! I'd still been losing weight and limiting calories - about 10 pounds in 3 months - but it turns out that could have been mild acidosis. Hard to say. I should have been counting carbs, fat, protein, and fiber.

Thanks all!

-j-
DFTBA
 
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