"If you suspect that you have impaired glucose tolerance, don't ignore it. The excess glucose molecules that make up those elevated post-meal blood sugars will bond to your body proteins, deposit themselves in your arteries, damage your kidney filtration units, clog up your retinal capillaries, and cause your nerve function to deteriorate leading to, among other things, impotence and pain. Keep this up, and in another five or ten years you'll be one of those people with "newly diagnosed" diabetes who have serious, established, possibly irreversible long-term complications.Thank you. I'm glad I asked.. I hadn't realised how serious it is.
I'm extremely glad, now, that I was self-testing. I thought that the 1hour point wasn't important.
That makes a lot of sense. thanksThe way it was explained to me is that T2 diabetes tends to affect first the first phase insulin secretion (straight after eating), then the second phase and finally the overnight trickle. This means if your fasting BS is impaired there have probably been months or years when your post-prandial was gradually deteriorating. Scary thought. (It's also the way they picked up that I'm not T2, as my fasting BS was raised while my post-prandials were still fine.)
I've always tested my one-hour, not two-hour. This is either because I was diagnosed when I lived in another country, where possibly the practice is different, or because I was pregnant, and possibly they prefer a one-hour test for gestational db.
Kate
That's what I thought Mo, but I've been reading otherwise. A person with normal BGs will not usually exceed 7.8 at 1 hr and 6.6 at 2 hr.Testing 1 hr after a meal tells a story but it can be misleading. Nobody wants high spikes so it's good to see how certain foods affect you but even non-diabetics will have elevated BG levels after eating, it's normal.
Totally agree, just saying elevated BG readings after eating are normal. If you eat lower GI foods, or, if on insulin, inject earlier, it can help prevent these readings getting too high.That's what I thought Mo, but I've been reading otherwise. A person with normal BGs will not usually exceed 7.8 at 1 hr and 6.6 at 2 hr.
I just don't want to do any damage to myself by allowing my BG to get to 9 and 10 and 11 at the 1 hr stage.
You've confirmed it for me.. thanks... If I stick to low GI foods it won't peak so high. It all gets very confusing. It's like a fine balancing act.Totally agree, just saying elevated BG readings after eating are normal. If you eat lower GI foods, or, if on insulin, inject earlier, it can help prevent these readings getting too high.
Yes. It's not an exact science.Low GI foods seen to work best for me as well.
Then again, out of the blue, you get something you'd expect to spike you that doesn't, and something that shouldn't, that goes up to 8's and 9's.
You are right - this whole issue surrounding BG levels is not an exact science and that is why there is so much confusion/ misinformation/speculation - take your pick.
What is normal, in any case?
Here's an example. A few days ago I persuaded my wife to eat the same as me for lunch and an afternoon 'treat'. She is, as far as we know, 'normal'.
Lunch was a cheese and tomato sandwich on seeded bread; the afternoon 'treat' was 2 smallish scones with rasberry jam and clotted cream (Yes, I know, not very healthy but I say again, it was a 'treat').
The BG results after 2 hrs: me (supposedly T2) 8.0; my wife (supposedly 'normal') 8.7.
This whole diabetic issue concerning hba1c values (at least in the Type 2 world), what's good, what's bad' what's normal are all statistically derived - don't forget it and we all know about 'lies, damned lies and statistics'.
Well I'm totally confused now. I thought I was doing so well keeping my BS controlled but now I see I'm not. I took my BS an hour after eating and it was 9.5 that's hight for me. So what is the result you worry about one or two hour test? This is the first I have heard of the one hour test. I'm a worrier so got more to worry about now. I have read a lot of things about diabetes and never seen this.You are right - this whole issue surrounding BG levels is not an exact science and that is why there is so much confusion/ misinformation/speculation - take your pick.
What is normal, in any case?
Here's an example. A few days ago I persuaded my wife to eat the same as me for lunch and an afternoon 'treat'. She is, as far as we know, 'normal'.
Lunch was a cheese and tomato sandwich on seeded bread; the afternoon 'treat' was 2 smallish scones with rasberry jam and clotted cream (Yes, I know, not very healthy but I say again, it was a 'treat').
The BG results after 2 hrs: me (supposedly T2) 8.0; my wife (supposedly 'normal') 8.7.
This whole diabetic issue concerning hba1c values (at least in the Type 2 world), what's good, what's bad' what's normal are all statistically derived - don't forget it and we all know about 'lies, damned lies and statistics'.
Go figure!!!!
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