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Originally Posted by Gangrel Your sugars should be around 10 about an hour after you eat, |
No, this is a complete misunderstanding. Your BG level should be as near normal, 4.5/85, at all times, as possible. This happens to be impossibly for almost all diabetics so there are guidelines for what you should aim for.
When the only test available was glucose urine strips, you tested your urine to see if it had glucose in it. If it did Bad, if not Good. This test is equal to testing if BG is under 10/180. That's because 10/180 is the point that the kidney begins to excrete glucose and was the only thing you could test at home.
Recent research strongly suggests that BG levels should kept at 8/140 or below, even 2 hours after meals, if damage to the body is to be avoided.
There is certainly no rule that BG
should be kept above normal, except as a preventive against hypoglycemia. If you could keep your BG right at normal without the risk of hypos, why wouldn't you?
