I decided to experiment a bit tonight with taking my blood sugar one, two, and then three hours after a meal. I had a higher than normal carb meal for me which was chickpea noodle soup (made with whole wheat pasta) and a small piece of buttered toast. I had half of my husband’s beer because I heard that alcohol can make your blood sugar go down. I don’t take insulin so hypo isn’t a problem for me. My blood sugar was 96 at the 1 hr mark, 120 at the 2 hour mark, and 108 at the 3 hour mark. Is that unexpected? I thought I would have the lowest reading at three hour. I am on metformin now so I don’t know if that would have anything to do with it.
Thanks for any insight. I am quite perplexed. Just got diagnosed and am a bit overwhelmed.
Re the beer, it can really depend what sort of beer. Some of the "Ultra Light" varieties only have 1-2G of carbs but some of the "thicker" beers, i.e. stouts, etc. can run to 20+. I got a 6 pack of this stuff called "Old Chub Scotch Ale" which is decent and 8% alcohol but, when I scanned the bar code with the "Lose It!" app, it came to 34G of carbs.
That being said, your body's response sounds about normal!
It would have been better if you had shared what your pre-meal BG was? I would consider a 120mg/dL post meal a win, it's not uncommon for my BG to swing up and down 30-40 points just siting doing nothing more than breathing. Just thinking about food can cause my BG to rise 30-40 points.
Pre-Diabetes, honeymoon , what ever you want to call it, your BG numbers are not perfect but there still what many would consider normal range....The metformin is working...Your OK...:-)
I had a leinikeugal winter wheat. I have no idea what my bs was premeal. I usually only do it after meals. I just thought it was weird that it was highest at the 2 hr mark. I thought it was supposed to be highest at the 1 hr mark. Oh well. Maybe my body is just weird. As an aside, my fasting bs this morning was 101. I thought metformin was supposed to lower fasting bs. It’s done nothing for that. My bs are usually in the low 100s still.
If you're T2, that's not unusual at all. Insulin resistance causes the tail of BG metabolism to stretch out many hours. To combat this, you have to take exogenous insulin (my approach to treating my T2).
If T1 on a honeymoon, not sure how to interpret the numbers. BTW, they're very good.
