Need help with results....... - Diabetes Message Board

Punchy · 10-11-2003, 12:43 PM

I just did a home self test (Accu-Chek Compact) of my blood sugar this morning. For breakfast I had A piece of my wifes apple pie, some ice cream and pancakes with quite a bit of syrup. My question is, if I ate this 20 minutes to an hour or so before I did the test, is the following result possibly normal. I has a 10.5 mmol/L and 10 minutes later I tested afgain and received a 9.4 mmol/L. My doctor told me about 2 weeks ago that after blood tests were run that things were 'normal'. How long does it take to go from normal to abnormal or unsafe? Before my normal results at the doctors was about 5.5 mmol/L or at least it was under & mmol/l.

THank you in advance.

Kre · 10-11-2003, 03:46 PM

The food you had for breakfast had enough high sugar content to raise the blood sugar level very high.

Did you test 2 hrs. after that meal? Testing at 20 to 1 hr. after a meal will catch it while going up and has not had time to peak.

Do yourself a favor and choose more healthy, less carb meals and try to avoid getting diabetes or if you already have diabetes help to control it.

Test 2 hrs after meals and see whether your sugar level is remaining in normal range or not.

Ron AKA · 10-12-2003, 08:55 PM

That breakfast would be a severe test for anyone. However, the standard is that any reading taken at over 11.1 (200 in US units) is potentially diabetes. There are two official ways of diagnosing diabetes and pre-diabetes. One is the fasting test where a BG greater than 7.0 is diabetes, and between 6.1 and 7 is prediabetes. The second way is an oral glucose tolerance test (done right after the fasting test) where you drink a glucose solution and then your BG is checked a few times up to 2 hours. Any number over 11.1 is diabetes, and at 2 hours between 8.9 and 11.1 is pre-diabetes.

I encourage you to have both the fasting test and oral glucose tolerance test. You may encounter resistance at the second test, but I was insist. The earlier diabetes is diagnosed the better. The fasting test alone does not always diagnose diabetes early.

Ron