I just got a call from my doc that my blood glucose test was 199. It is always in the 80's or maybe 90. For the first time I forgot to fast and had a bowl of oatmeal & some raisins about 2-3 hours before the test. I will go in for a re-check but what do you experts think? Can a number that high be because of my breakfast?

I just got a call from my doc that my blood glucose test was 199. It is always in the 80's or maybe 90. For the first time I forgot to fast and had a bowl of oatmeal & some raisins about 2-3 hours before the test. I will go in for a re-check but what do you experts think? Can a number that high be because of my breakfast?

I check my sugar ALL the time because of my thyroid problems and can tell you from experience, OATMEAL in particular sends my sugar sky high and lasts up there for a while. I do not have diabetes and my sugar is always normal or low/normal. I actually had to cut the oatmeal cause it was making me a little jittery in the mornings. Its a very quickly absorbed sugar and itrs loaded with it. Even the "old fashioned" oatmeal has tons of carbs. Read the box and you'll see. Raisins themselves are just little concentrated sugar pills. Fruit juices combined with all the carbs in oatmeal can do the trick. 199 is still a little on the high side and after 3 hours, it should have been lower so a retest would be advised.

Here's a little "self test" I did on myself a little while back with Special K cereal. It does not have much to do with your situation but you can get an idea of what a good bowl of cereal can do to blood sugar:

Fasted for 10+ hours and then ate a small bowl, about 2.5 cups, of Kellogg's Special K cereal with about 2 cups of milk.

Time Blood Sugar
8:00 AM FASTING 107
9:00 AM FASTING 104
9:45 AM FASTING 100
EAT BREAKFAST MINUTES AFTER EATING Blood Sugar
9:52 0.00 100
10:13 21.00 122
10:20 28.00 139
10:26 34.00 139
10:32 40.00 135
10:49 57.00 130
11:04 1 hour 12 minutes 121
11:44 1 hour 52 minutes 119
12:56 3 hours 3 minutes 110

Thank you very much. That is helpful. I will go to my primary on Tuesday.

I would get that checked. Even after a big meal, a non-diabetic should have a number much lower than that.

Good luck to you.

Cora

Two thoughts,
First off, I agree with Cora. A non-diabetic person's blood glucose would not normally rise to 199 even after a very high carb meal. It's possible, SusieQ, that you're at the very beginning stages of insulin resistance (T2), and that it could easily be managed with a few minor diet modifications and possible some increase in exercise.

Second, NastyHashi...that breakfast (2.5 cups of Special K with 2 cups of milk) is an EXTREMELY high carb load. I'm amazed that your blood sugar didn't go up more. A cup of milk is approximately 13g of carbs, and you had two (26g), plus 2.5 cups of Special K is 55g, for a total of 81 grams of carbs at one meal! That's way too high for most diabetics, even those of us on insulin.

But all of this (the oatmeal, raisins, Special K, etc.) speaks to one important issue that many people don't take into consideration: weighing and measuring your food is the only way to insure that you know exactly how many grams of carbs you're eating at any given time. Two tablespoons of raisins = 15g of carbs. I can handle that in a measured bowl of cereal with measured milk, but I certainly would go over my carb limit if I just "sprinkled" raisins on anything without measuring.

Ruth

I agree. I happen to be a little hypoglycemic if anything due to my bum thyroid but am not diabetic. I was just trying to show what happens with a non-diabetic so Susie Q might have something to compare/contrast to a do realize she might have the start of a sugar problem and should be retested and/or purchase a glucose kit for herself so she has a better idea of what's going on. My last A1C was 4.8 during a checkup which I guess is pretty low/normal.