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Thread: Spikes in Blood Sugar

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11-18-2006, 08:19 PM

tanyatype1 tanyatype1 is offline

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Spikes in Blood Sugar

Hi everyone! I have a question that I've been wondering/worrying about since I was diagnosed. After you eat, your blood sugar spikes, then comes down from the insulin, but how dangerous are all of these spikes (over time)? Do we not really have to worry about them as long as our a1c's are low? I read on one of these posts that damage starts when blood sugar is above 7.5. That scares me. I haven't been worrying about eating things low on the glycemic index because I figured that the fast acting insulin would take care of it anyway. Any thoughts? Thanks!

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