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<blockquote data-quote="Nicole T" data-source="post: 2322566" data-attributes="member: 527609"><p>An interesting experiment last night, and I'm wondering what others' thoughts are on the results. I made a paella, of which my portion was 75g of dry rice (not sure of the cooked weight) but I boiled the rice for 5 minutes, before thoroughly rinsing in cold water, to try to flush out a lot of the starch. I got a spike according to Libre, but on blood, my 2 hour PC was only 0.3 mmol/L elevated from my AC immediately before eating. Sounds like a pretty good result so far.</p><p></p><p>But...</p><p></p><p>I can normally manage at least 95% in range (4 to 8.5 mmol/L) on my Libre. Some days I even manage 100%. Right now (around 20 hours after having this meal) I've spent only 69% in range over the last 24 hours, though look to have peaked lower than 11.5 at all times. My average over the period is 8 mmol/L when I can usually keep it in high 6's to low 7's.</p><p></p><p>Libre seems to be running around +1 mmol/L against blood at the moment, which falls within the usual +0.5 to +1.5 range I'm finding with it.</p><p></p><p>My girlfriend is here, which means we're drinking strong coffee by the bucketload, too (I'm not a big coffee drinker when I'm on my own.) So perhaps that's part of it, too. I certainly wouldn't have thought it was possible for a single meal to spike me for that long, but I can't think what else would have done it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nicole T, post: 2322566, member: 527609"] An interesting experiment last night, and I'm wondering what others' thoughts are on the results. I made a paella, of which my portion was 75g of dry rice (not sure of the cooked weight) but I boiled the rice for 5 minutes, before thoroughly rinsing in cold water, to try to flush out a lot of the starch. I got a spike according to Libre, but on blood, my 2 hour PC was only 0.3 mmol/L elevated from my AC immediately before eating. Sounds like a pretty good result so far. But... I can normally manage at least 95% in range (4 to 8.5 mmol/L) on my Libre. Some days I even manage 100%. Right now (around 20 hours after having this meal) I've spent only 69% in range over the last 24 hours, though look to have peaked lower than 11.5 at all times. My average over the period is 8 mmol/L when I can usually keep it in high 6's to low 7's. Libre seems to be running around +1 mmol/L against blood at the moment, which falls within the usual +0.5 to +1.5 range I'm finding with it. My girlfriend is here, which means we're drinking strong coffee by the bucketload, too (I'm not a big coffee drinker when I'm on my own.) So perhaps that's part of it, too. I certainly wouldn't have thought it was possible for a single meal to spike me for that long, but I can't think what else would have done it. [/QUOTE]
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