Londonscruff
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Ate two slices of whole meal bread with peanut butter and four hours later BS is 9.3?
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Welcome to the forum
Most likely be the bread then, normal testing time would be 2 hours post meal. You also need to test before you eat to see the difference, hopefully no more than 2-3mmol/l. The single reading doesn't tell you much.
You may want to look for an alternative breakfast. 1 slice toast with eggs?, full fat Greek yoghurt with berries?
Most likely be the bread then, normal testing time would be 2 hours post meal. You also need to test before you eat to see the difference, hopefully no more than 2-3mmol/l. The single reading doesn't tell you much.
You may want to look for an alternative breakfast. 1 slice toast with eggs?, full fat Greek yoghurt with berries?
Londonscruff
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I usually have porridge, I keep being told that whole meal is good. I get fed up with trying
rebrascora
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Hi and welcome
What was your premeal reading? Taking a reading 4 hours after a meal really doesn't tell you a lot on it's own and particularly little information about how your body responded to the food you ate. Generally we advise testing immediately before eating a meal and then 2 hours afterwards. The reason for this is that BG fluctuates throughout the day and night as a result of many different factors. If you are trying to find out how your body responded to the carbs in a particualr meal then you need to test just before eating and then 2 hours afterwards as this time frame is when those carbs will release and you are, as much as possible, isolating that food response from all those other factors. A rise of more that 3mmols in that 23 hour period suggests you ate too many carbs for your body to cope and you need to look at reducing the carb content/portion size a bit and test again next time you eat that.
So if your pre meal reading was 7.6 and your 2 hour post meal reading had been 9.3 then your body coped reasonably well with that meal, but if your pre prandial reading was 5.8 and your post meal result had been 9.3 then you likely had too many carbs. Usually worth doing a second test with the same portions on another day to double check before making any changes. We suggest with diabetes that you don't draw significant conclusions from any one test. It is all about looking for patterns, because so many things can affect BG on any individual day. Keeping a food diary along with your readings and an indication of portion size of carbs (ie 2 slices of bread/4 pieces of potato, 3 serving spoons of rice, a medium baked potato.... that sort of thing) will help you to identify particular types of carbs which cause you BG turbulence and are perhaps best avoided or kept for special treats and the ones that your body seems to tolerate better and in what portion size.
I know it probably sounds a right faff but once you get into a routine of testing like this and figure out a few regular meals that your body copes well with then you can ease back on testing those and concentrate on any new foods/meals you try.
What was your premeal reading? Taking a reading 4 hours after a meal really doesn't tell you a lot on it's own and particularly little information about how your body responded to the food you ate. Generally we advise testing immediately before eating a meal and then 2 hours afterwards. The reason for this is that BG fluctuates throughout the day and night as a result of many different factors. If you are trying to find out how your body responded to the carbs in a particualr meal then you need to test just before eating and then 2 hours afterwards as this time frame is when those carbs will release and you are, as much as possible, isolating that food response from all those other factors. A rise of more that 3mmols in that 23 hour period suggests you ate too many carbs for your body to cope and you need to look at reducing the carb content/portion size a bit and test again next time you eat that.
So if your pre meal reading was 7.6 and your 2 hour post meal reading had been 9.3 then your body coped reasonably well with that meal, but if your pre prandial reading was 5.8 and your post meal result had been 9.3 then you likely had too many carbs. Usually worth doing a second test with the same portions on another day to double check before making any changes. We suggest with diabetes that you don't draw significant conclusions from any one test. It is all about looking for patterns, because so many things can affect BG on any individual day. Keeping a food diary along with your readings and an indication of portion size of carbs (ie 2 slices of bread/4 pieces of potato, 3 serving spoons of rice, a medium baked potato.... that sort of thing) will help you to identify particular types of carbs which cause you BG turbulence and are perhaps best avoided or kept for special treats and the ones that your body seems to tolerate better and in what portion size.
I know it probably sounds a right faff but once you get into a routine of testing like this and figure out a few regular meals that your body copes well with then you can ease back on testing those and concentrate on any new foods/meals you try.
Nick Cliff
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Hi @Londonscruff - as @rebrascora says it depends on what the reading was before you ate, and also what you did in those 4 hours, as some forms of exercise will naturally cause your blood glucose to rise. Sorry that it's all a bit complicated! Cheers. Nick (ex-London, but still scruff....)
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