I've been eating a little pineapple in it's own juice mixed in cottage cheese for lunch for sometime now. At two hours after, my bgs have always been below 130 or 120 depending on how much I ate or minor timing fluctuations. Yesterday, I looked at the time wrong and, accidentally, tested at one hour. It was 219...... ten minutes later it was 156 and at 2 hours back to the usual reading.... well below the 140 my doctor recommends.

My A1c has come down to 5.2 and I've read that the two hour postpradnial is more predictive of heart attack than is the A1c. Also, no one seems to be giving a STRAIGHT answer on the one hour postpradnial eventhough it is recommended to gestational diabetics. In fact, I've been on groups where questions are answered by doctors and, when asked about the one hour reading, that part of their question is ignored. I've always understood that anytime bgs exceed 150, damage is being done.

But I'm wondering. Doesn't the reading HAVE to be high at some time in order for First Phase insulin response to kick in? If you happen to check at that moment in time, wouldn't even a normal person get a high reading? Doesn't dropping to 156 in 10 minutes mean it did? Does anyone know about this?

Thanks