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Type 2 St Patrick’s Day

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Peterseaford

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Against my rules but used root vegetables to make stew for this special day
Entered the ingredients to find nutritional value and though calculated at 31.6 carbs per serve I sinned and had it for tea last night and again for lunch today

Last evening at 5.20pm I was 4.9 and at 8 pm - after the stew - 6.9

Before lunch today I was 5.8 at 12.20pm and after Irish Stew and. A salada biscuit and two slices of cheese I am 5.2

I expected that the rush of carbs would push my BG up but it went down

Would value your assessment of this situation

Kind regards

Peter
 
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Sometimes we just get rogue readings. Sometimes we miss the peak of the spike due to the fats in a meal.
I suggest that if you have this meal again you test pre prandial as usual then at 1 hour, 2 hours and 2 and a half hours to make sure where the peak is and how long it takes for your bg to come down to your pre prandial reading or thereabouts.
I test the same meal at least three times before putting it on the acceptable list. Hope this helps.

Edited to add. Remember that activity levels will also make a difference to readings so if one of your meals was followed by e.g a half hour of dog walking this would affect the post prandial readi g.
 
Everybody's allowed to be a Paddy just for one day.
Take her handy,
Glenn
 
It’s also St Gertrude’s Day - the patron saint of cats and cat lovers
 
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