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my girlfreinds b/s readings looke dodgy

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damianhucker07

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hi . i said on my previous thread ,am i diabetic, that i was suffering diabetic symptoms and that i had bought a test kit ( see am i diabetic for further info) well my results appear to be all fine ive done random tests and got varying from 4.0 to 6.1 and then did a diy GTT this morning . my fasting level was 5.1 i had bottle of lucozade and got a readng of 8.7 after an hour and back to 5.9 the following hour so it appears im fine but my girlfreind also did the test just for fun and had a fasting (after 12 hours ) of 7.4 which is higher than me usually , she displays no symptoms etc , out of curiosity she also drank some lucozade , she hates the stuff so therfor could only manage to drink at very most half a bottle ( i tried to make her drink more but she wouldnt ) i went ahead and tested her anyway and she read 10.2 . i was amazed , what if she had drunk the whole bottle , the 2 hour test then gave readings of 5.9 and she had a headache ( presumably cos her bs had come down so quickly . do you agree she should make a docs appointment for a proper test . she has just eaten her dinner so i will test again at 9:15pm and post the result here.
 
results after dinner . myself 7.6 and girlfreind 5.0 . dunno what happened earlier maybe a dodgy result . regardless looks like we are both all clear . thnx for everyones help
 
your girlfriends results look fine to me, lucozade is a high energy glucose drink which will bump up anyones BGs , the fact that it halved in only 2 hours shows she is producing enough insulin to bring blood sugars back to normal. I have drunk lucozade after a hypo when first diagnosed and overdone it by drinking half a bottle and my readings went to above 20 so then had to correct it with injection. So stop panicking and just keep an eye out in the future with your family history,in the meantime be happy you are diabetes free. :D
 
The point of a Glucose Tolerance Test is not to see how high BG goes, it is to see how quickly it comes down. If you eat enough anyones BG will be raised to quite high levels - because it takes a while for the insulin response to kick in. The difference is that in non-diabetics the BG comes down quickly after a glucose challenge whereas in diabetics it stays elevated. This is why you have to wait 2 hours after a GTT - the 1 hour figure isn't particularly meaningful. If you really want to get a good idea of what is going on then try plotting a curve - test every 15 minutes until the BG has peaked and then about every 30 minutes until it gets back to where you started. Draw this on a graph and the difference between a diabetic and a non-diabetic will be very obvious.
 
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