Watermelon SHOCKER!

[janetitherington]

I am a type one on levemir and novo rapid.

Today I bought a watermelon, & ate about a six inch piece.
There was a small puddle of water on my plate and was curious as to how much sugar was in the watermelon.

So I got a little of the fluid on my finger and let the one touch verio blood strip suck it in.

I was dumbfounded when the result came out as High above 33.3mmols.
Or higher than the meter goes.

It's a fruit, and would never expected this.
I probably could have had a cake or ice cream and there would have been less sugar in it.
Call it fructose, it's still sugar.

 

[SweetHeart]

Janet, did you test yourself afterwards too?

Ju

 

[hanadr]

Thee's so much water in the melon, that you have to eat loads to raise your BG by much
Hana

 

[janetitherington]

I did test myself about 45 minutes afterwards- I know I should have waited longer but didn't.

I had jumped from 6.5 to 14.9

The test sample was probably less than 1 ml, ( I don't know how 1 ml relates to mmols) so how do you explain a drip, a drop
A tear size sample being so high?

Because I have zero answers for it.

The only other time I have seen the results come back as high with a none blood sample is when I have tested with lucozade.
And that came back as high too.

Jane