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Can a high reading ever be normal?

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Shivles

Shivles

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My youngest daughter is type 1 diabetic, diagnosed July 2016. Recently I decided to do a sort of home glucose tolerance test on myself to get a baseline on how a healthy person reacts to glucose. I drank 60g carbs worth of glucojuice and my too reading over the next 2hrs, I topped out at 12mmol and it came back down over the next couple of hours. Just now I ate a cookie and after a while started to feel really odd, thirsty, needing the loo lots and headache, I decided to test again, 10.8mmol and half an hour later 12.1mmol another half an hour 9.8mmol. I'm 27, healthy, slim/athletic build... last week someone asked if I lost weight too.

Am I right to be concerned? My daughter's dad is T1 but is there a chance I could be too!? I'm honestly terrified
 
A normal person's blood sugar can peak surprisingly high, but will drop back to normal levels much quicker than a diabetic person. I did this test with my wife. We both had a Belgian bun. BG before then for both of us were in the mid 5's. After an hour, we both jumped well into the 8's. After 2 hours though, wifey was back down to the 5's & I was in the 7's.
 
I'd guess the first test was almost an hour after the cookie and I tested over 9 for the next hour ... one rouge number I wouldn't be concerned about but this is the second time in a fortnight I've seen a reading at 12 but also the thirst and headache this time has me more concerned
 
As far as I understand it home monitors are not rated for diagnosis of diabetes

People without D do see often quite large alterations in BG, but I’m afraid you can’t really conclude anything from your experiments so far.

Would be worth speaking to your GP and telling them what you have found though.
 
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