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normal glucose level after high carb meal

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Deb_bee

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
I have been recently diagnosed type 2, when I go out to eat I make all the right food choices, my lost control of my willpower and ate a high carb meal roughly 170g of carbs, 2 hours later when testing my blood levels I was very surprised to see it was only 6.3, I dont understand why it was normal after high carb meal ?
 
Hi,

Could be due to a multitude of "factors"??

When was this "170g" carb meal consumed? & what did it consist of??

Some carbs also act fine on testing at the two hour mark, but can bite you in the **** after 4?
 
If you eat a meal that is high in carbs but also fats you can have two peaks one earlier than the other as the fats slow down the digestion of carbs to glucose known I believe as the Pizza effect as a pizza has both high carb and high fat content.
 
Jaylee said:
Hi,

Could be due to a multitude of "factors"??

When was this "170g" carb meal consumed? & what did it consist of??

Some carbs also act fine on testing at the two hour mark, but can bite you in the **** after 4?
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Meal consumed at 5.30pm. I went all out and had double steak burger in bun with cheese and bacon plus portion of chips
 
Quite a high fat meal that, cheese, beef, deep fried chips. The fat content will slow down the carb digestion. So your blood sugar peak might be later than the 2 hours when you tested. Try testing at 3 and 4 hours.
 
JohnEGreen said:
If you eat a meal that is high in carbs but also fats you can have two peaks one earlier than the other as the fats slow down the digestion of carbs to glucose known I believe as the Pizza effect as a pizza has both high carb and high fat content.
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Ok thanks I will re test bloods after 4 hours
 
Deb_bee said:
Ok thanks I will re test bloods after 4 hours
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Did you test prior to the meal.?
What medication (if any.) are you on for your diabetes...?
 
I had a slip with chinese takeout. I was 5.8 before eating, 11 at 1 hour, and back to 5.8 at 2 hours. If you are only testing at 2 hours you can miss the spike entirely. 11 is clearly not acceptable at least to me. As others have said, if it is a very high fat meal as well, the spike might be later.
 
If you don't test before the meal, how do you know what the spike really is? Metformin will not have any effect on a post meal spike, that is not what it does.
 
So readings are 2hours post meal 6.3, 3hrs 30mins post meal 8.4 then at 4 hours down to 6.8
 
To really know how your body reacts, you might want to systematically track what you're eating and rebular pre/post meal BG levels (1 & 2 hours minimum & more until the last reading is lower than the one before it. You can also try on the half-hour, but I've never felt the need for that much detail.) It's tedious - but it really helped me understand how my body would react to certain foods.
 
You definitely need to test immediately pre-meal otherwise your post meal figures won't have much meaning in relation to how you're body's responding to food. This pre-meal figure acts as a base line to show how large or small a rise you get.

Robbity
 
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