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What's the timescale of BS of a type #2 after eating?

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Hi

I hope this isn't too stupid of a question.

I would like to know if there's a standard rate at which BS levels of a type #2 vary after eating.

For example: I have something to eat. How long do should the BS's rise after taking a Metformin 500 until they reach a peak and then how many hours until they drop back to 'normal' (heh!) again?

Thanks

Mick
 
That all depends.

Type 2s who have a condition called gastro paresis can take 12 hours to digest a meal.

Fast acting carbs for most people spike at the 30-90 minute mark.
Meats come on at about 4-9 hour mark.

Fat in a meal reduces the speed that other constituents peak at.

You have to experiment on yourself with a technique called meal profiling to see what happens to you.
 
Thanks for that Katherine.

I had nothing to eat today until 15:30 since late last night (I also had a bottle of wine last night while watching football).

When I took my reading at 15:30 before eating I was at 5.7. Great I thought but that was a long fast! (for me anyway). Then I had brown rice, chicken, some kind of vegetable (Thai veg.I don't know what it was) and some kind of black pepper sauce on it. Followed by a pack of Macadamia nuts and a cup of coffee later).

When I tested at 18:15 I was 9.7 - quite a jump. At 19:15 I was down to 8.8.

The big jump was disappointing hence my question. I'm (slowly) going back down again, after 4 hours.

Difficult to get to grips with how long the peaks take to achieve and start lowering again.
 
The big jump would probably be due to the rice and ,if it was a commercial sauce,the sauce.You have to check and test quite frequently to start with to find out which foods cause a 'jump' like that.Looks like rice does it for you!
 
I was hoping that the brown bit of the rice was a bit of a savior, obviously not.

Everything here in Thailand comes with white rice, so I made the change (at home) to brown rice.

If I can't eat rice at all!? Hmmm.....what's next?
 
Mmm good question,didn't realise you were in Thailand!At home you can pretty much please yourself.Instead of rice try more meat and veg,see what difference that makes.Do you get cauliflower over there,Fergus had a recipe for grating cauliflower and cooking it to look like rice,it's good!and not so many carbs.
 
I have found that so far every type of rice I have tried spikes me. I only had a couple of spoonfuls usually and bulk up on meat and veg. The other thing I have found is that noodles do not spike me any where near as much so you could try them and see what happens.

Louise
 
bkkMick said:
How long do should the BS's rise after taking a Metformin 500 until they reach a peak and then how many hours until they drop back to 'normal' (heh!) again
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You can't use metformin to "chase" the BG spike caused by a particular meal. It's action is much too slow (it takes days or weeks to build up in your system). The reason why you take it with a meal is to stop it doing horrible things to your gut, not to counteract that meal.

As others have said you need to experiment on yourself to work out the effects of various food combinations. If you test every 30 minutes after eating until your BG peaks, and then hourly until it gets back to where you started, that will give you a good idea of what is going on. If you plot this on a graph, the area under the curve is your own personal glycaemic index for that meal (a useful figure if you are fine tuning your diet).
 
Thank you everyone for your replies.

I'm still trying to get to grips with my BS ups and downs and have taken note of all of your comments.

I probably shouldn't post this as it really shows how bad I've been, but, I've been trying to keep an accurate track of what I've eaten and (warts and all) the beer that I've drunk.

I expect to get flamed for consuming so much beer but I am trying to cut down (slowly but surely) and I have switched to a 'light' beer which I now drink exclusively.

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