hi there I’ve posted a few times still new to all this! I have started testing and am now freaked out!! I’ve been testing my fasting level and also before and after meals with mostly 5 before and 5 after meals however I had breakfast I’d just eggs and smoked salmon and half an avocado then randomly took a reading about an hour and a half after before the 2 hour mark and I was shocked to see 7.9 when all my others have been in the 5’s I’m not scared I’m diabetic type 2 and my hba1c was 42 in November. I don’t understand why would I get such a high reading after a very low carb breakfast it’s like I’m losing a losing battle.
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Any time you get an unexpected reading wash you hands and do another. We all get rogue ones from time to time. That food sounds fine to me.
Although I rarely suggest this if it’s making you this stressed just focus on eating the right foods and maybe not test so much. It’s supposed to be helpful not make you feel worse.
Although I rarely suggest this if it’s making you this stressed just focus on eating the right foods and maybe not test so much. It’s supposed to be helpful not make you feel worse.
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Smoked salmon can sometimes have quite a bit of sugar in it. This sort of thing does indeed happen to non-diabetics.
I'm not sure why you seem to want to be diagnosed. It comes with a lot of problems - life insurance, etc. If you can avoid a diagnosis, I would.
I am certainly no expert and there are far more knowledgeable people on here than I, but to me those figures seem perfectly respectable. I think it is easy to get stressed over readings and that in itself can bump up your readings. Here is a confession for you, when I was pre-diabetic I went to the emergency room because i had a fasting blood sugar reading of 6.5mmol\L. I panicked and thought that was too high. Of course, they were not and 8 hours later after tests I was sent home reassured. I was obsessed with my readings. Not that there is anything wrong in taking your readings because it is important to know what your baseline is and how much your blood sugars rise and falls post meal. It is good to know how your body is able to metabolize carbs and make use of the sugars without it sitting in your bloodstream. Everyone is different and people react to different foods. I know that non diabetics can have post meal highs of 8 - 10mmol/L after a heavy carb meal but it comes down quickly as your body releases insulin. Keeping to a low carb diet will definitely help those figures and may prevent any further rises in your Ac1 tests. Just my take .
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Ok so next thing to check is the labels on the food if it has any. Looking for hidden carbs you don’t expect to be in there. As KennyA says sometimes they are where you don’t expect them to be. Check all the ingredients used.
Other possibilities are something you drank maybe? A medication, an illness or infection brewing even if other symptoms are not apparent yet. Or stress
Non diabetics do get variations. They just aren’t usually checking and don’t see them.
Are you formally diagnosed type 2 and if so how long ago?
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Thing is, if anyone (diabetic or non-diabetic) eats a meal with no carbs in it, there should be no real BG rise. If a non-diabetic and a diabetic each eat a meal with carbs, both will get a BG rise. The difference is that the non-diabetic's BG level will return to baseline reasoably quickly (I don't mean in minutes) but the diabetic's BG will maybe go a bit higher and stay higher for much longer. But you can't look at your own readings and judge that. Your last A1c was iirc 42, which is top end of normal.
If there are no other non-food factors involved such as you having something on your fingers, or something you drank, or a dodgy result, the fact you had a rise means there must have been carbs in what you ate. My money is on the smoked salmon. I never buy it packaged these days because it is frequently cured in sugar and when packaged often has a sugar dressing added - I don't buy from Marks and Spencer because both their salmon and chicken has added sugar.
If there are no other non-food factors involved such as you having something on your fingers, or something you drank, or a dodgy result, the fact you had a rise means there must have been carbs in what you ate. My money is on the smoked salmon. I never buy it packaged these days because it is frequently cured in sugar and when packaged often has a sugar dressing added - I don't buy from Marks and Spencer because both their salmon and chicken has added sugar.
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Yes, have to be so careful with smoked salmon. I buy from Ocado/ M&S. You really have to check everything. Costs more to buy the smoked salmon without sugar in. In fact M&S have changed so many items and added sugar. Think it is one way of cutting cost. Not so good for us.
