This might be silly, but.....?

Question

I haven't been feeling real well the last couple of weeks so I thought I would check my blood sugar. I had dinner around 7:00pm and I've been checking my blood sugar throughout the night and it's been kind of high. I had gestational diabetes so I know the range. I guess the silly part of this is, is if you don't have diabetes does your blood sugar still rise?

Here are my blood sugar results over the past few hours;
8:10pm- 160
9:00pm- 178
9:20pm- 197
9:50pm- 202

Also, I've had this ache on my left side every time after I eat.

Answer 1

Normal folks rarely go over 140. I hate to tell you this, but you are a full blown diabetic. There's a handy chart on this page that will help make it clearer for you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucose_tolerance_test

Answer 2

The pain on your left side after eating could be irritable bowel syndrome or some other intestinal irritation. That should be checked out with your doctor.

About diabetes, it is normal, diabetic or not, for blood sugars to rise after eating. It is how your body metabolizes the food during the next 2-3 hours afterwards that can determine more precisely if it is diabetes.

You only gave numbers for 2-2 1/2 hours after eating. I found it odd that they increased instead of decreased as blood sugars usually spike right after a meal. This should be checked, but overall, the numbers still didn't look that bad. You may be in a pre-diabetic state. If so, take preventative measures to reverse it now before complcations set in.

http://www.betatherapy.com

Answer 3

The patient should have been fasting for the previous 8-14 hours (water is allowed).

Usually the OGTT is scheduled to begin in the morning (0700-0800) as glucose tolerance exhibits a diurnal rhythm with a significant decrease in the afternoon. A zero time (baseline) blood sample is drawn.....

The patient is then given a glucose solution to drink. The standard dose since the late 1970s has been 1.75 grams of glucose per kilogram of body weight, to a maximum dose of 75 g. It should be drunk within 5 minutes. Prior to 1975 a dose of 100 g was often used.

Blood is drawn at intervals for measurement of glucose (blood sugar), and sometimes insulin levels. The intervals and number of samples vary according to the purpose of the test. For simple diabetes screening, the most important sample is the 2 hour sample and the 0 and 2 hour samples may be the only ones collected. In research settings, samples may be taken on many different time schedules.

If renal glycosuria (sugar excreted in the urine despite normal levels in the blood), then urine samples may also be collected for testing along with the fasting and 2 hour blood tests.

Answer 4

Yes your blood sugar does rise after eating if your not diabetic, but yours still seems a bit high (unless you ate a whole cake). You may want to check it first thing in the morning- a 'fasting' sugar. if it is still above normal (60-100). you may want to see your physician. That, along with your abdominal pain and not feeling well, may indicate pancreatitis or some liver or gall bladder problems. Hope you feel better.

Answer 5

check your fasting glucose level for several mornings for a certainty.

I do suggest you call the doctor's office and get an appointment for complete physical with CBC blood work up!!

Having no hint of what or when you ate, it is impossible to guess. But it shouldn't be going up like that unless you just finished dinner at 8 and even then that is a bit much!

Answer 6

You are a diabetic.
In normal people blood sugar should return to normal 2 hours after a meal.

Answer 7

wow you have very high blood sugar: I would see someone about that!

Answer 8

By the 2nd hr. your BG level should be going down not still rising. Welcome to the the club you're one ofus a diabetic.

Answer 9

wll i would go see a doc and if you still feel like that i would go to the ER best of luck