Blood Sugar this evening..

Jakeinhd1995 · Dec 9, 2023

Hi all,

Just want a bit of advice .. so I had a Sunday dinner this evening around 1 hour ago and a half ago. My bloods started at 4.7...I then went up to 10 according to my cgm highest I have recorded on my fingerprick test was 9.4.

I am now at 8.7 it will have been two hours after the meal at 20:30.

Is this normal? Do normal non diabetic blood sugars go this high?

I think I may still be in the phase where I am in denial

Thanks
Jake

Antje77 · Dec 9, 2023

What was the food in your dinner?

Jakeinhd1995 said:
Is this normal? Do normal non diabetic blood sugars go this high?

They can, but it's not usually an everyday occurence, and those highs in non diabetics tend to be very short.

Jakeinhd1995 · Dec 9, 2023

Antje77 said:
What was the food in your dinner?

They can, but it's not usually an everyday occurence, and those highs in non diabetics tend to be very short.

Well according to my finger prick test at 20:11 I am 9.2. It will have been 2 hours at half 8.

Antje77 · Dec 9, 2023

Jakeinhd1995 said:
Well according to my finger prick test at 20:11 I am 9.2. It will have been 2 hours at half 8.

And what did you eat?

Jakeinhd1995 · Dec 9, 2023

Jakeinhd1995 said:
Well according to my finger prick test at 20:11 I am 9.2. It will have been 2 hours at half 8.

The food in my dinner was

1.Mash
2. 3 roasties
3. Turnip
4. Yorkshire Pudding
5. Stuffing
6. Brocoli and cauliflowers
7. Carrots.
8. 2 chicken legs

gogobroom · Dec 9, 2023

A pub Sunday lunch for me raises my Bloods from around 6 up to over 13 in the first 90 minutes, then gradually comes back down to around 8 at 2 hours, There are so many carbs in a Sunday lunch,Mash, roasties, turnip and carrots are all high carb. I am only recent Type 2 and HA1c of 49 - Its just how your body deals with the carbs I am led to believe as everyone is different.

Antje77 · Dec 9, 2023

Oh my, those are such British foods that I have no idea on the approximate amount of carbs in those, I'm Dutch!
Let me tag someone who actually knows what those foods are!
@KennyA , I see you're online and I expect you know what roasties, yorkshire pudding and stuffing are, help me out!
@Jakeinhd1995 , I suppose mash is potato mash? That one is very likely to raise your BG.

Jakeinhd1995 · Dec 9, 2023

gogobroom said:
A pub Sunday lunch for me raises my Bloods from around 6 up to over 13 in the first 90 minutes, then gradually comes back down to around 8 at 2 hours, There are so many carbs in a Sunday lunch,Mash, roasties, turnip and carrots are all high carb. I am only recent Type 2 and HA1c of 49 - Its just how your body deals with the carbs I am led to believe as everyone is different.

Ah right, so I'm definitely diabetic still even though I'm (in remission) just so bloody stressful!!

Jakeinhd1995 · Dec 9, 2023

Antje77 said:
Oh my, those are such British foods that I have no idea on the approximate amount of carbs in those, I'm Dutch!
Let me tag someone who actually knows what those foods are!
@KennyA , I see you're online and I expect you know what roasties, yorkshire pudding and stuffing are, help me out!
@Jakeinhd1995 , I suppose mash is potato mash? That one is very likely to raise your BG.

Yeah potato mash dude

gogobroom · Dec 9, 2023

Jakeinhd1995 said:
Ah right, so I'm definitely diabetic still even though I'm (in remission) just so bloody stressful!!

My understanding is that once you have been diagnosed as diabetic you will be for the rest of your life, it is the way you deal with it to lower it non diabetic ranges. So reducing carbs is a great way, however this then becomes the norm, if you then go back to eating more carbs you will be back in diabetic range again before you know it. Your body can't cope with the high carb content that is all, so keep it lower and you should be ok.

Jakeinhd1995 · Dec 9, 2023

gogobroom said:
My understanding is that once you have been diagnosed as diabetic you will be for the rest of your life, it is the way you deal with it to lower it non diabetic ranges. So reducing carbs is a great way, however this then becomes the norm, if you then go back to eating more carbs you will be back in diabetic range again before you know it. Your body can't cope with the high carb content that is all, so keep it lower and you should be ok.

It is so bloody stressful

Rachox · Dec 9, 2023

Once a diabetic always a diabetic is my motto. I have a roast occasionally but know I can only tolerate one small roastie, a tiny piece of anything else carby, like Yorkshire, parsnips, carrots then I fill up on the meat and low carb veggies like cauliflower and broccoli.
I’m waiting to see what your two hour reading is anything above 6.7 shows you had too much carbs.

Antje77 · Dec 9, 2023

Jakeinhd1995 said:
It is so bloody stressful

I'm sorry you find it so stressful.
What part is causing the most stress? we might be able to help by sharing what helped us.

Practically, would you have liked the meal if you had left out the mash and ate an extra chicken leg and some more of the veggies? It's only a small adjustment but it may mean a large difference in the numbers you see.
You starting out with a 4.7 shows that your baseline is very good, so it may well be it only needs some small tweaks to keep the post prandial numbers in range as well.

Jakeinhd1995 · Dec 9, 2023

gogobroom said:
My understanding is that once you have been diagnosed as diabetic you will be for the rest of your life, it is the way you deal with it to lower it non diabetic ranges. So reducing carbs is a great way, however this then becomes the norm, if you then go back to eating more carbs you will be back in diabetic range again before you know it. Your body can't cope with the high carb content that is all, so keep it lower and you should be ok.

yeah it seems that way

Welshman1952 · Dec 9, 2023

Two hours post an evening meal of a hash made of tomatoes. peas, mushrooms, onion, plus 30g (raw) of bulghur wheat and soya protein chunks and my BGs were 9.1 mmol - not the greatest reading I've ever had, especially as after eating half my meal I was full, but a big improvement on the 14.1 reading this time last week.

In the last week I lost 5lbs and heavily changed my diet to make it healthier, so it's still early days but moving the right way.

Jakeinhd1995 · Dec 9, 2023

Rachox said:
Once a diabetic always a diabetic is my motto. I have a roast occasionally but know I can only tolerate one small roastie, a tiny piece of anything else carby, like Yorkshire, parsnips, carrots then I fill up on the meat and low carb veggies like cauliflower and broccoli.
I’m waiting to see what your two hour reading is anything above 6.7 shows you had too much carbs.

So my 2 hour reading was 9.2...my libre 2 said 9.4

Libre now says 8.6 so it's coming down after 2 hours and 15 minutes....

Jakeinhd1995 · Dec 9, 2023

Antje77 said:
I'm sorry you find it so stressful.
What part is causing the most stress? we might be able to help by sharing what helped us.

Practically, would you have liked the meal if you had left out the mash and ate an extra chicken leg and some more of the veggies? It's only a small adjustment but it may mean a large difference in the numbers you see.
You starting out with a 4.7 shows that your baseline is very good, so it may well be it only needs some small tweaks to keep the post prandial numbers in range as well.

I absolutely hate this disease

it's caused me to loose so much. This year has just sucked massively

Rachox · Dec 9, 2023

Jakeinhd1995 said:
So my 2 hour reading was 9.2...my libre 2 said 9.4

Libre now says 8.6 so it's coming down after 2 hours and 15 minutes....

I’m glad it’s on the way down now, put it down to experience and think carefully about your choices next time a roast is on the cards.
I hope you enjoyed the dinner anyway and I hope the stress reduces as you get more accustomed to this life style

Jakeinhd1995 · Dec 9, 2023

Rachox said:
I’m glad it’s on the way down now, put it down to experience and think carefully about your choices next time a roast is on the cards.
I hope you enjoyed the dinner anyway and I hope the stress reduces as you get more accustomed to this life style

It definitely wasn't worth it!

Jakeinhd1995 · Dec 9, 2023

Jakeinhd1995 said:
It definitely wasn't worth it!

It's now at 6.4 and going down. 3 hours it's took all together to come down completely

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