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Blood sugar reading query

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Daz333

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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
 
Given what you had just eaten an hour before those levels look fine :thumbup:
 
I strongly doubt it mate.

If a proper diabetic had eat "eaten a bowl of chocolate cereal, a couple small blocks of chocolate and a sweet just afterwards" then our BG readings would be closer to 10.6mmol/l rather than 5.6

Everybody's BG spikes after eating lots of carbohydrate - even non-diabetics. The fact that your BG is at 5.6 mmol/l an hour after eating that much carbohydrate suggests that you almost certainly do not have T2 diabetes. Quit worrying about it.
 
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