Good morning all,
I'm new to this forum and wanted to run something by you all to help put my mind at ease:
My father is diabetic and he's 61 at present. I, out of curiosity about a year ago asked my dad if it would be ok to have my blood sugar levels taken using his testing equipment so it came up at 5.5.
This morning I had it checked again, only to find it was 5.6. However, I had, just over an hour before testing, eaten a bowl of chocolate cereal, a couple small blocks of chocolate and a sweet just afterwards. In actualy fact I had just finished the sweet before I had the test done. I understand that anything BELOW 5.6 is a normal level, but would my readings been pushed upwards by the recent sugar intake before testing?
I went to the doctors around 3 months ago as I thought I had shown the signs of pre-diabetic. They took a urine test which indicated no sugar and I went home happy as larry.
I'm really worried that my 5.6 level might show that I am heading for diabetes soon. Would anyone be able to let me know if the fact that I had my sugar levels taken within an hour or so of eating a fair bit of sugar. I would imagine that had I taken the levels BEFORE eating anything, it would be well below 5.6.
Thanks,
Darren
I'm new to this forum and wanted to run something by you all to help put my mind at ease:
My father is diabetic and he's 61 at present. I, out of curiosity about a year ago asked my dad if it would be ok to have my blood sugar levels taken using his testing equipment so it came up at 5.5.
This morning I had it checked again, only to find it was 5.6. However, I had, just over an hour before testing, eaten a bowl of chocolate cereal, a couple small blocks of chocolate and a sweet just afterwards. In actualy fact I had just finished the sweet before I had the test done. I understand that anything BELOW 5.6 is a normal level, but would my readings been pushed upwards by the recent sugar intake before testing?
I went to the doctors around 3 months ago as I thought I had shown the signs of pre-diabetic. They took a urine test which indicated no sugar and I went home happy as larry.
I'm really worried that my 5.6 level might show that I am heading for diabetes soon. Would anyone be able to let me know if the fact that I had my sugar levels taken within an hour or so of eating a fair bit of sugar. I would imagine that had I taken the levels BEFORE eating anything, it would be well below 5.6.
Thanks,
Darren