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Type 1 What levels do non-diabetics sugar spikes reach?


That is interesting. Those of us Type 2s on this forum that eat a very low carb diet, or keto, mostly see numbers similar to your lower levels.

The only problem I can see with your levels, as a non-diabetic, is you don't eat a normal western diet. You eat mostly animal products, which are by their nature not carby. When you eat something carby, your levels increase. So when we are searching for information on what a normal non-diabetic might spike to, we can perhaps use your higher levels as an example rather than your lower ones.
 

Well, a sleep deprived impulse purchase is what ultimately tipped me over the edge into SMBG and SMISFG.

I actually wrote about it on a no-longer-updated text file on my Web site. I think it was around 130 minutes after that I was showing 8.5mM/~153mg/dL (at 45 minutes in I hit 8.0/144, and ended up bouncing around between 7.4 and 8.5), at which point I went on a bike ride, got it down to 4.9 (a few weeks down the line, a high caused by fasting got worse from cycling), went up to the 5s again, and after that bounced between high 3s and low 5s.

Libre taught me that drinking coffee makes my ISF glucose go low, and the symptoms (which I initially thought were just caffeine jitters, but an insulin-agenetic friend of mine told me it sounded to him like a hypo) correlated so I have to assume that my blood glucose also went low. So now I've quit coffee and will only be using tea and chocolate, which have much milder impacts on my glucose metabolism, perhaps owing to a lower caffeine content.
 
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