Re: Question about expected sugar levels

On Mar 18, 8:34 pm, "Julie Bove" <julieb...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Stuart Forman" <Stuart.For...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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Hi,

I'm new here and not sure at the moment if I have diabetes or not.
For several months, I have suffered from numb feet.  Finally decided I
should do something about it, so will get to see a doctor, but because
I've not been registered with any doctor for over 10 years, that is
taking a little time.  I guess diabetes is a possible cause & I am
high risk (49 yrs old, could do with losing some weight, Father has
Type 2 diabetes).

While waiting for an appointment, I decided to take some blood sugar
readings.  Typical figures: before evening meal: 77, 30 mins after
meal: 142, 2 hrs after meal: 178, 3 hrs after meal: 149, 5 hrs after
meal: 142.

From the literature with the tester, these are figures are within the
"don't worry about it band", but reading the posts here, most of you
seem to be controlling your blood sugar to have much lower spikes than
this.

My question is, are these figures what you would expect for a person
not currently making any attempt to control their blood sugar?  I'm
thinking that, regardless of any formal diagnosis, there would be
benefits from controlling sugar levels to have lower spikes than this.

Most of us here do not want to go over 140.  Some don't want to go over 120.
You numbers do sound like at least diabetes if not pre-diabetes.  You do not
say what was in that meal.  That matters too.

Well it was home cooked rice + chicken + peas, about 200g serving,
then tinned fruit pears & evaporated milk for desert - had similar
food again tonight (I'm in the UK, so on GMT) and peaked at 167.

From what I've been learning on this forum, its the carbohydrate thats
the problem. That's been a bit of an eye-opener for me, I thought I
was eating healthily - low fat and all that.

I'm going to continue eating my usual diet for a couple of days and
take readings to establish a baseline. Then I'll have a total change
of diet (and hopefully better exercise too) and see what effect it
has.

Thanks
.

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