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Watermelon SHOCKER!

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
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.
 
Thee's so much water in the melon, that you have to eat loads to raise your BG by much
Hana
 
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
 
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