I'm not diabetic as far as I know. Haven't been to the doc for a while. I have been feeling kinda crappy for a while and internet research pointed me to blood sugar craziness. Off to Walmart to buy a meter. Here's my day. Wake up-52. Had breakfast. Went to work. 10:00-51 ate a protein bar checked 5 mins later-61. Back to work. Lunch break at 1:00-53. Immediately following lunch of large fry and garden salad from bk-116. 30 mins after lunch-179. One hour after lunch-77. Two hours after lunch-71. Off work had some beef sticks on the way home. Just checked 90. I am pretty sure this means I'm still not diabetic... I'm curious about the morning number and why its so far below normal. I had some slurred speech this morning which makes me more concerned. Any input would be helpful. Thank you.Monday, December 26, 2011
Are These Normal Blood Glucose Levels?
I'm not diabetic as far as I know. Haven't been to the doc for a while. I have been feeling kinda crappy for a while and internet research pointed me to blood sugar craziness. Off to Walmart to buy a meter. Here's my day. Wake up-52. Had breakfast. Went to work. 10:00-51 ate a protein bar checked 5 mins later-61. Back to work. Lunch break at 1:00-53. Immediately following lunch of large fry and garden salad from bk-116. 30 mins after lunch-179. One hour after lunch-77. Two hours after lunch-71. Off work had some beef sticks on the way home. Just checked 90. I am pretty sure this means I'm still not diabetic... I'm curious about the morning number and why its so far below normal. I had some slurred speech this morning which makes me more concerned. Any input would be helpful. Thank you.
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A. Thorne - Go see a doctor, the 179 is definitely too high for a normal healthy person that soon after eating. The 52 is too low.
ReplyDeleteMs. T - Since your level was 77 one hour after eating I would say you are defiantly not diabetic.
ReplyDeleteHere are examples of what your blood glucose levels would be 2 hours after eating and you fall into the normal range.
Normal Fasting BG = 70-99 mg/dl - BG 2 hours after eating = <140 mg/dl
Prediabetes Fasting BG = 100-125 mg/dl - BG 2 hours after eating = 140-199 mg/dl
Diabetes Fasting BG = > 126 mg/dl - BG 2 hours after eating = > 200 mg/dl
I have attached a couple of pages to give you more information on diabetes.
Perhaps you are coming down with a cold or flu and might be in the early stages of it.
Good luck to you.
John W - We normally see diabetes as an inability to deal with high glucose levels due to a lack of insulin or to insulin resistance and therefore expect to see high glucose levels in diabetics. But it's really a regulatory system, you may not have problems in producing insulin but when you are producing insulin, you're producing too much of it as anything below 72 mg/dl is hypo-glycemia and you're getting a fasting level in the 50's, this could also mean that your liver isn't able to release glucose as the fasting glucose is from the liver. Your value 30 minutes after lunch of 179 mg/dl is high enough to be diabetic but you seem to get a rebound effect bringing you close to hypo-glycemia an hour after lunch at 77 mg/dl. You could have other hormonal problems causing your regulation to be off. Chances are your H1A1C would appear normal but a detailed Glucose tolerance test with readings every 15 minutes would show you all over the map. You certainly should talk to your Doctor about your readings and your symptoms. And get that Walmart meter checked.
ReplyDeleteTheOrange Evil - For the sake of argument, I am going to assume all these readings are accurate - that the meter wasn't malfunctioning, that you washed and dried your hands.
ReplyDeleteYour blood sugar is all over the map. Some of your readings are quite low for a non-diabetic. Non-diabetics do drop into the 60s between meals, but rarely the 50s. I'm not surprised that your speech was slurred.
A non-diabetic should not be as high as 179 at any point in the day, regardless of what was consumed. The fact that you spiked from 53 to 179 in half an hour (126 points) and then dropped nearly 100 points in the next half hour is totally abnormal. Some people would look at your blood sugar and think that your 30-minute spike doesn't matter because you returned to normal very quickly, but people with normal healthy pancreases do not spike that high. A non-diabetic's blood sugar goes up after eating, yes, but usually doesn't cross the 120s (up to 140 is considered "normal").
Instead of an enormous spike and then an equally enormous and rapid drop, you would see a gradual increase around 30 minutes to 1 hour, and then a gradual decline to pre-meal levels by around 2 hours. This is would an intact first-phase insulin response would look like. The first-phase insulin response controls blood sugar from going too high after eating. Yours isn't working right. You spiked up into the 170s, which shows that the response is impaired, and then you came down hard and fast rather than descending slowly to your pre-meal blood sugar. You're also having trouble keeping your blood sugar up. Something's wrong and I'm wondering if you're at risk of developing diabetes. Sometimes people have hypoglycemia mixed with high after-meal spikes in the beginning.
You should see a doctor. In the meantime, rather than testing only 5 minutes after eating (this won't tell you anything), try testing at 30 minutes post-meal some more. This is when you're spiking, so this is the result that matters. While it's good that you return to normal so quickly, the high spike may indicate that your pancreas isn't doing its job properly - that it's letting you go too high and rebound too fast and too low. These large swings and low blood sugar are going to make you feel sluggish. Record where you are at 30 minutes, 1 hour, and 2 hours after some of your meals and take the results to your physician.
GmanIV - i found at times them blood strips arent accuarte, re-test next time it shoots up so high like that. But other than that, your blood levels are good and stable!
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