Spiking after meals

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Permalink Reply by Heather on October 24, 2009 at 2:07pm

Hi Amanda,

Okay, it sounds like you're bolusing about 20 minutes before eating? If you're cking your b/g at an hour after eating, my understanding is that a b/g in the 200-ish range is acceptable. Your target is the 2 hour time period, when your b/g should return to w/i 30 points of your pre-meal blood glucose. Are you returning to your target number in the two-hour time period? If so, then not to worry too much at the one hour time ck. This is my understanding of things.

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Permalink Reply by Anngelia on October 24, 2009 at 2:10pm

I think thats pretty normal. As long as your back down to your target within 2 - 3 hours your doing good. If your always doing a correction after 3 hours then you might have a problem

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Permalink Reply by Sarah on October 24, 2009 at 2:33pm

You can pre-bolus to avoid as high of a spike, but I have no honestly been able to eliminate it completely, even wearing a CGMS.

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Permalink Reply by Amanda on October 24, 2009 at 6:13pm

Oh ok, thank you! Yeah I am usually back to normal within 2-3 hours. I didn't realize that was normal, that makes me feel better.

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