JUN28-1:30PM 100mg/dL
Hey, only 100! At least I can still have a cocktail from time to time! That's a bonus!
Now, I'm tossing in 15g of pretzel sticks to provoke a higher response - see you in an hour.
JUN28-2:30PM 133mg/dL
Holy cow! Only 44 pretzel sticks and look at the spike! Yeah, I know on an empty stomach with no other food but STILL! Here's the kicker. The tomato juice was 10g of carbs plus the alcohol. The pretzels were only 11g. Tomato juice + vodka pops me 12mg/dL while the pretzels do 33mg/dL. Hmmm!
Time to fast again.
JUN29-1:30PM 96mg/dL
Funny how my morning blood sugars after fasting are higher than my daytime levels several hours after eating. Theories suggest morning cortisol levels might be a factor.
Eat 100g of blueberries
I'll post again in about an hour
JUN29-3:00PM 110mg/dL
At 3:45 I ate a chicken breast (190g cooked weight)
JUN29-4:50PM 93mg/dL
OK, this is goofy the more I eat the more my BG drops. I know its not carbs but geez, there should be SOMETHING!
I wonder if there is some kind of circadian rhythm thing going on here.
Finally, I had some lab work done to get a precise measurement form a venous blood draw. The standard test is called an Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT) where you rapidly drink 75mg of glucose (orange flavored but - wow - talk about sweet. Here are the results
Fasting Glucose: 84mg/dL (great)
1/2 Hour Glucose: 162 (uh oh)
One Hour Glucose: 194 (just below diabetic)
2 Hour Glucose: 166 (still way too way)
So, here is the takeaway message. Never trust a fasting blood sugar alone to tell you about your metabolic condition. Had I not randomly tested my post-prandial blood sugar I never would have known that I was glucose intolerant. Given that I am also very thin (BMI of 20) no doctor was ever concerned enough to test me.
Diabetes is a significant risk factor for heart disease and it is more of a sliding scale in terms of risk. Technically, I am not yet diabetic but I need to start paying attention to what I eat, getting more frequent exercise, and get tested more frequently (thankfully my Hba1c is still below 6.0% (but barely at 5.9%). I hate to sound like a broken record but, here is yet one more reason to adopt "informed, self-directed healthcare" as opposed to "just trust your doctor healthcare". Remember, you may have great doctors, but they have to be concerned with and treat thousands of patients and cannot focus on only one. You can!
Looking out for your heart health,
HeartHawk
