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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dillinger" data-source="post: 284862" data-attributes="member: 13582">Hi Cathy,I think you've hit the nail on the head; the consensus on here suggests that a blood sugar reading of above 7.8 mmol/l is going to cause problems in terms of increasing the likelihood of complications.  I have heard elsewhere that the glucose shown in a urine reflects blood sugars above 10 mmol/l (and by the way if your blood sugar is elevated there is a 'renal threshold' for blood glucose above which your kidneys start to remove the sugar from your body - that's the connection between blood and urine).  So, testing for urine could show no glucose at all ever and you could still be just shy of the renal threshold building up problems for the future.Did the dietician really say eat white bread if you want to? Astonishing...BestDillinger</blockquote>

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