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<blockquote data-quote="Cocosilk" data-source="post: 2380644" data-attributes="member: 501623"><p>Woah... that sounds serious!</p><p></p><p></p><p>I'd been low carbing mostly for the last 2 years but just over a week ago it was my birthday and we went out to a restaurant and had a meal, with some carbs, and I didn't check what it did to me. Then I just kept going for the next week and let some carbs creep back in. I knew about needing to carb-up before a test and the last times I tried to prepare to test myself I would chicken out on the second day when I started seeing 9s at the one hour mark. So this way I just put the metre down for a week and enjoyed myself a little bit. I knew my pancreas would be awake this time... and it struggled a bit, didn't it?</p><p></p><p>Before the last OGTT I did about a year and a half ago, I don't think I had quite had enough carbs and my one hour was 12 or 13mmol but back down to the 6s by the 2 hours, and so this whole time I'd been hoping it was just the lack of carbs the day before each time I tried to have a few carbs that was pushing it up a bit. But I think I am genuinely at least prediabetic, or have impaired glucose tolerance. At least the first phase response seems to be slow. When I would test after a small amount of carbs - like half a cup of cooked rice, I'd see the spike at 30 mins and not the hour. I come back to normal (6s) by the two hour mark if I stick to half cup portions of carbs with only one meal a day, so that's what I plan to do. I'll probably have to have them at night because if I do make it into to ketosis, I find it hard to sleep.</p><p></p><p>I'm just grateful I found this forum and already know about low carbing. This test of carbs had to be done so I could accept that I probably do have an issue now and that it's probably not due to low carbing unfortunately. I wish it was.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cocosilk, post: 2380644, member: 501623"] Woah... that sounds serious! I'd been low carbing mostly for the last 2 years but just over a week ago it was my birthday and we went out to a restaurant and had a meal, with some carbs, and I didn't check what it did to me. Then I just kept going for the next week and let some carbs creep back in. I knew about needing to carb-up before a test and the last times I tried to prepare to test myself I would chicken out on the second day when I started seeing 9s at the one hour mark. So this way I just put the metre down for a week and enjoyed myself a little bit. I knew my pancreas would be awake this time... and it struggled a bit, didn't it? Before the last OGTT I did about a year and a half ago, I don't think I had quite had enough carbs and my one hour was 12 or 13mmol but back down to the 6s by the 2 hours, and so this whole time I'd been hoping it was just the lack of carbs the day before each time I tried to have a few carbs that was pushing it up a bit. But I think I am genuinely at least prediabetic, or have impaired glucose tolerance. At least the first phase response seems to be slow. When I would test after a small amount of carbs - like half a cup of cooked rice, I'd see the spike at 30 mins and not the hour. I come back to normal (6s) by the two hour mark if I stick to half cup portions of carbs with only one meal a day, so that's what I plan to do. I'll probably have to have them at night because if I do make it into to ketosis, I find it hard to sleep. I'm just grateful I found this forum and already know about low carbing. This test of carbs had to be done so I could accept that I probably do have an issue now and that it's probably not due to low carbing unfortunately. I wish it was. [/QUOTE]
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