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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grazer" data-source="post: 1983415" data-attributes="member: 31362">Bit late in the day for a reply, but results are good. The fact that you didn't carb up before hand means results are worse than they would have been, but still good. Shame that you didn't have more readings taken - the shape of the graph you get is very telling, as is the peak BG reading. If you repeat, try and get 15 min readings.If it works, I'll attach a graph of a clinical-level OGTT I did on myself, a friend who is pre-diabetic and my wife who is very normal (annoyingly!)You can see that at 2 hours, my BG is 7.8, and would classify me as pre-diabetic. However, from 45 to 75 mins I hover around 13mmols and peak at 14, making me certainly diabetic. Also, the graph rises steeply because of my lack of a phase 1 insulin release, and comes down slowly because I have a reasonable but not great phase 2 release.My wife shows a true non-diabetic graph, never getting above 7.5, and finally getting down to 2.2 because her body had flooded her with insulin as a reaction to the sudden mass of glucose after a fast. She felt a bit wobbly then, low blood sugar, but not an issue, a glass of orange juice and she's back almost back to normal 15 mins later.My friend follows a typical pre-diabetic curve, with the good recovery after his peak being a result of the fact that he still has a very strong phase 2 insulin release. His peak  goes above 11, suggesting he is actually diabetic, but we were using meters (taking capillary blood) rather than veinous blood at a surgical test, so it could well be the  readings shown were a bit higher than in reality. It is the shape of the curve that is telling.If the graph and table haven't attached, it's down to my poor PC skills. Let me know and I'll try again!</blockquote>

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