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What is the "Pizza Effect?"

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TheGreatGateway

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I experienced a spike in blood glucose 5 hours after eating today. The pattern went like this:

2 hours: 5.9 mmol
3 hours: 4.5
4 hours: 3.9
5 hours: 7.9

I had a mcdonalds which of course is quite fatty. Everything else looks normal, but that sudden giant spike has me concerned. Is it an example of the pizza effect, and if so, can non diabetic people experience it?
 
You had a McDonalds what exactly?

McDonalds are famous for high carb/fat combo junk foods.
 
TheGreatGateway said:
I experienced a spike in blood glucose 5 hours after eating today. The pattern went like this:

2 hours: 5.9 mmol
3 hours: 4.5
4 hours: 3.9
5 hours: 7.9

I had a mcdonalds which of course is quite fatty. Everything else looks normal, but that sudden giant spike has me concerned. Is it an example of the pizza effect, and if so, can non diabetic people experience it?
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Many things can impact blood sugars, like hunger, stress, anger.

You have given us the 5 hour figure, what has it after 5.5 or 6 hours?
 
DCUKMod said:
Many things can impact blood sugars, like hunger, stress, anger.

You have given us the 5 hour figure, what has it after 5.5 or 6 hours?
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Unfortunately I'm not sure what it was after that time frame as I ran out of test strips. But to sum up all my weeks of readings, my fasting glucose is ideal, as is my HB% but my post meal readings and especially my peak glucose can be ludicrously high. Sometimes however I ate the same meal twice in the same day and it spiked my sugar one time, but did virtually nothing the next time.
 
I have to question why you are testing every hour. Did you have symptoms?

At the 2 hour point your bs was tiny. Mine would have shot up with a few chips.
 
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