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<blockquote data-quote="KennyA" data-source="post: 2689260" data-attributes="member: 517579"><p>It's possible (because this is what happened to me) that a near-zero carb intake will initially result in higher BG. In my case, I think this was because my liver started dumping as much glucose as it could make, in response to next to none coming from food. Over time, this has lessened as my liver has come to accept that I don't need as much glucose as it thought I did.</p><p></p><p>That said, you're looking at a seven or eight hour gap between tests. A lot can happen in that time, as In Response says. And your readings are not really that far apart, it's not a "spike". Your second reading is around five hours afetr you ate - I would normally expect any impact from food eaten to have come and gone by two hours.</p><p></p><p>There's also the permitted 15% inaccuracy in fingerprick testing 95% of the time - so it's entirely possible that a true BG value of (say) 8.8 could give valid test results of anywhere between 7.5 and 10.1. Or that one of your readings was a rogue "one in twenty" that's even farther off.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KennyA, post: 2689260, member: 517579"] It's possible (because this is what happened to me) that a near-zero carb intake will initially result in higher BG. In my case, I think this was because my liver started dumping as much glucose as it could make, in response to next to none coming from food. Over time, this has lessened as my liver has come to accept that I don't need as much glucose as it thought I did. That said, you're looking at a seven or eight hour gap between tests. A lot can happen in that time, as In Response says. And your readings are not really that far apart, it's not a "spike". Your second reading is around five hours afetr you ate - I would normally expect any impact from food eaten to have come and gone by two hours. There's also the permitted 15% inaccuracy in fingerprick testing 95% of the time - so it's entirely possible that a true BG value of (say) 8.8 could give valid test results of anywhere between 7.5 and 10.1. Or that one of your readings was a rogue "one in twenty" that's even farther off. [/QUOTE]
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