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When is a Spike a Spike

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brightstation

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Hi

I am T2, recently diagnosed and currently just using low carb diet & exercise to control.

I've spent the last 4 weeks measuring my fasting and 2Hr Postprandial and things have been going down nicely and are now (mostly) steady. I though it would be useful to start looking at 1Hr Postprandial and suddenly things look less rosy. At the advice of this board I also started to measure my BS before I start my main meal as a baseline.

I understand it is best to keep spikes to a minimum so my question is what increase in BS levels after 1Hr are bad, average, good. My 2Hr numbers are now good and are a little over my baseline (pre-meal) level. Would be good to get some real-life numbers rather than scientific recommendations (which are welcome as well).

Many thanks

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I've always thought that 2 hour after meals was the spike period.. And should try to aim for less than 2.8 raise from premeal bg level.
I think 2hour may be more linked to T1's as we have to account for insulin getting active in us after our injections.
Why did you start to test 1hr after meals?
 
Sorry to bump this thread up, would really love to hear your opinion on this.

Having been told to avoid spikes I am keen to understand if this is normal as most write ups talk about 2hr Postprandial. For example, tonight, pre dinner, my reading as 6.7, 1hr after was 9.5 and 2hrs later 6.3. As I've only been testing 2hr Postprandial I've been missing these 1hr 'spikes'. Dinner carb count was approx 350gs (15 from berries),

Many thanks

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Bright station - I'd love to hear if anyone has a definitive answer cos I also want reassurance that only testing at two hours is ok. All I can say us that pretty much everything I've read, both on here and elsewhere, says to test at two hours. I think the point is that *everybody* spikes at one hour, it's not an indicator of diabetes or how good your control is. So yes, you're "missing a spike" but it would be unnatural NOT to have a spike. But non diabetics will be back to normal within two hours and that is what we should be aiming for too.


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