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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Martin_" data-source="post: 2626728" data-attributes="member: 576027"><p>The general consensus seems to be, test just before a meal, then test again two hours after a meal. If you don't test just before a meal you have no way of knowing how far you blood sugar has risen, you only know what it has risen to. This can be very useful information; lets say you are going to eat a sandwich. I you only check your blood 1 and 2 hours later you may find out that your blood sugar has risen to 7 and then 8, but you don't know what it has risen from. If you test just before the sandwich then 2 hours later and get readings of 5 and 8, you know that your blood sugar has risen by 3. This would indicate that something in your sandwich caused a spike of 3 in your blood sugar (anything more than 2 is considered a spike). Hope this makes sense.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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