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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LonelyFatGuy" data-source="post: 2509541" data-attributes="member: 553038">Sorry, what..?  Everything I've read (including from the guide on this website) seems to suggest a spike 2 hours 'post prandial', even for non-diabetics, is the norm.It says on this site that 4 to 5.9 mmol pre prandial is normal for non-diabetics, and it should be under 7.8 at least 90 minutes after a meal.  How can anyone interpret this in any other way than that a spike is completely normal..?  Where have you got this idea that it should be back to normal by then..?Why do you have diabetes then..?  If the cure for type 2 diabetes was just to eat a bunch of carbs, get an insulin spike, and end up lower than baseline, then wouldn't we all be cured? It doesn't work what way..?  Really short term, as in, having a direct affect on the meal just eaten..?  Based on what I've seen over the last week, I think it might.  I'm only generally eating 2 meals a day.  Usually the exact same meal twice.  The first meal seemed to cause a normal spike 2 hours later, I'm assuming with the help of the Metformin.  But the second meal that was exactly the same was causing me a larger spike at night.So I reintroduced the second gram of Metformin with meal 2 (having previously ditched it because of the "brown rain"), and now I'm also getting a more normal spike with that second meal.  The half-life of Metformin is supposedly 6.5 hours, so wouldn't that make sense..?  Unless I've misunderstood the half-life of drugs, a short half-life means it gets in and works fast and then it gets out.  Seems logical that a pill taken with each meal is only really helping with that meal.  The level of the drug will have diminished by half by the time of your next meal (if there is roughly 6.5 hours between your meals...) and thus wouldn't be as effective.</blockquote>

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