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Blood sugar still elevated 6 hours after eating

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TheGreatGateway

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Sometimes I find the same foods can spike my sugars when they normally didn't. I had a fish meal tonight, and after 4 hours my sugar was still in the 8mmol region. Now I have just found out my sugar is still 7.1mmol, 6 and a half hours after eating - I couldn't sleep and checked on a whim. How can this happen when the same meal can usually cause no problems? Is it because I ate it a couple of hours later than normal?
 
I don’t think the fish itself was the problem, was there something else with the meal?
 
TheGreatGateway said:
There were some thin chips and peas too, but I must stress again that this exact same meal doesn't always cause problems with my sugars.
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Could be a timing issue, I usually find I do better when eating earlier. Lots of variables though, I.e. did you have a snack that you usually don’t have? Was you activity level lower? Did you have any extra stress? All things to consider
 
I'd consider tossing the chips and peas and see if you can add something else to take their place that is much less carby. No idea if you are diagnosed diabetic or prediabetic, but in your shoes I'd be looking at what is causing that prolonged state and treating that. It's certainly not the fish.

Lots of variables to consider, if you ate some chips first and then started on the fish then your system will be hit by carbs first. However, it could be your body just isn't handling the carbs well at all now. All speculation of course, but as I said, look at what is requiring the most insulin output. Which seems to indicate some level of insulin resistance, but treating the cause of the rise I think is far more important. Which is the carb content.

Life isn't easy.
 
Sounds a bit fishy to me. :)

Was it perhaps battered fish from chip shop in which case the chip shop may have varied it's batter recipe or thickness.

If not and the meal was exactly the same as on previous occasions then I would put it down to the dynamics of diabetes and it's total unpredictability and the fact that as the body is not strictly a machine it's reaction to carbohydrates can and does fluctuate.

I have found that at times a meal will hardly budge my sugars and then the same meal has put me up to the high teens sometimes there seems to be no rhyme or reason to it just odd occasional randomness.
 
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