Recently Diagnosed with Type 2 - Need Advice on Accu-Chek Readings

[Rainbowhawk]

I was recently diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. To monitor my blood sugar levels, I bought an Accu-Chek Instant from Boots. I've been testing my blood sugar levels around meal times to understand how different foods impact me. I've also significantly reduced my carb intake.

However, I've noticed that my readings don't always show an increase 2 hours after eating. The measurements are in mmol/l. Has anyone else experienced this? Any insights would be appreciated.

	Before meal		After meal
14-Aug-23​	6.5	whole meal toast	7.3
15-Aug-23​	5.9	Black pudding on whole meal toast	5.8
16-Aug-23​	6.4	Banana and Strawberry Smoothie	6.3

 

[Martin.A]

My usual take on that would be that if your post-prandial reading has dropped back to near where it was pre-prandial then your body coped very well indeed with your meal choice. The only surprise is that your readings follow meals consisting of toast and banana, as I would expect most T2s - especially those newly diagnosed - would generally steer clear of those on account of their high carb content.

 

[DiabloT2]

@Rainbowhawk - I have found occasionally my 2 hr (or 90 min) post-prandial is not higher than my pre-prandial reading. For me, I've noticed it sometimes occurs when I have exercised and on those days my pre-prandial is a bit higher than otherwise. I guess one possible explanation is that my liver dumped glucose I needed for the exercise and stayed slightly elevated, but as soon as I ate my insulin kicked in, metabolising the both the newly ingested carbs and my already slightly elevated blood glucose...and so there was no post-prandial rise. My usual pattern however is a rise.

I would agree with @Martin.A you have seemed to coped very well with your meals.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Thanks for sharing your results @Rainbowhawk

Those meals seem to have suited your metabolism really well, and the reductions in your carb content seem to have had a very positive effect.

Depending on how your system is faring (and whether your first phase insulin response has taken a bit of a hammering) you may find your levels may have risen during that 2 hrs, then peaked and begun to come down by the 2hr mark when your second phase insulin kicked in - but any high BGs must have been pretty short-lived to have come down so nicely by those 2hr results.

Alternatively, the reduced carb load may now be at a level that your body can just keep up well with - especially with a little fat (like the black pudding) to slow down the carbs.