Hi Sherrielee--

My wife was a grad student in nursing at UCSF 30 years ago. They took a class of 20 on a "field trip" down to Swenson's Ice Cream Shoppe (simply terrific ice cream!) and encouraged everyone to eat their fill. All were non-diabetics, all between 21-35 years old. Starving grad students didn't need a lot of encouragement!

Then they ran 2 hr. pp BG's on everyone. They were ALL off the map...most between 250 and 300!!! The moral of the story (for them) was that a high BG can be a response to a huge carb/sugar load...and not necessarily a sure diagnostic for diabetes. Everybody has "spikes" in response to the proper stimuli. Shortly after that, most places stopped relying on "Glucose Tolerance Tests" for dx (this is the one where you drank a bottle of super-sweet "Glucola," and got hourly tests for 8 hours to determine "clearance rates.") Lots of people tested as diabetic on those...but most of them cleared "normally" when they ate "normally." The HbA1c provides a much more reliable dx.

Incidently, despite a family history of diabetes and overweight, my wife has never tested high on any other regular BG readings...but I, with no family history (but really high weight) managed to get a T2 dx last April. The good news is that my 300+ numbers went to 85-115 after 6 weeks on Atkins at a <20 carb/day intake.

Still, I'm not contemplating any trips to Swenson's in the near future!