How does a diabetics body cope with excess sugars?

[PhillB]

Hi,
I've done an experiment today (partly because I just wanted to have something for lunch that wasn't a salad), so I had the fish and chips (and mushy peas!) in the staff restaurant.

I tested my bloods before eating at 1pm and they were 5.4 mmol/L.

I then tested about an hour after eating it and they had gone up to 10.1! An hour after that they were 9.2. Another hour and they were 6.7 which I consider to be more-or-less back to normal. Then I left work and caught the train and walked the mile or so home (at a medium pace for me). When I got home I tested again and they were 3.9!

Is this normal? It's like my body went into shock over the excess and dumped it, then when I needed a little bit for the walk home it wasn't there.

My bloods haven't been as low as 3.9 since I've been testing these last two months since diagnosis.

Any comments?

 

[KookyCat]

I'm not an expert but I would guess that because type 2 usually involves some insulin resistance your pancreas would have been sending out insulin to rectify that high, and it would continue to do that until your blood sugar was in the range it likes (3.5 to 5.5 I think is the preferred range), so by the time you walked because you were above the bodies preferred range for some time you'd have had insulin in your system and the walking increased your sensitivity, producing that lovely low value. If you'd walked directly after the fish and chips you probably would have got lower 1 or 2 hour readings. It's a guess based on what I know based on my limited experience of impersonating my own pancreas so I'm sure someone will put me right if I'm giving you a bum steer 🙂

 

[bill hopkinson]

Hi,
I've done an experiment today (partly because I just wanted to have something for lunch that wasn't a salad), so I had the fish and chips (and mushy peas!) in the staff restaurant.
Any comments?

Well I eat the fish and mushy peas and forget the chips, and still I would be around 13 two hours later because my insulin resistance is too high.
My view, and I am not a medical doctor, is that the more you eat the chips, the more your insulin resistance grows, so in the end, the levels will not come down so fast.