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If you take medicine (diabetes pills or insulin), you will probably want to know how well that medicine is working. The general rule is to test before meals and keep a record. If you want to know how your meals affect your blood sugar, testing about 2 hours after eating can be helpful.
Both organization recommend that most of us test two hours after eating. While your blood glucose level could be highest one hour after a meal, there are good reasons to wait until two hours after the first bite. âIf I aim for pre-meal levels to occur an hour after eating, I chance going low after two hours and for sure after three hours. My blood glucose level tends to decline from hour two to hour three. Therefore I do not test one hour after â there is nothing I would do with that information other than aggravate myself.â.