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Blood Sugar this evening..

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Jakeinhd1995

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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 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.
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Well according to my finger prick test at 20:11 I am 9.2. It will have been 2 hours at half 8.
 
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.
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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
 
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.
 
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! :hilarious:
@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.
 
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.
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Ah right, so I'm definitely diabetic still even though I'm (in remission) just so bloody stressful!!
 
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! :hilarious:
@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.
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Yeah potato mash dude
 
Jakeinhd1995 said:
Ah right, so I'm definitely diabetic still even though I'm (in remission) just so bloody stressful!!
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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.
 
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.
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It is so bloody stressful
 
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.
 
Jakeinhd1995 said:
It is so bloody stressful
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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.
 
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.
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yeah it seems that way
 
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.
 
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.
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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....
 
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.
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I absolutely hate this disease it's caused me to loose so much. This year has just sucked massively
 
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....
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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
 
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
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It definitely wasn't worth it!
 
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