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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.
What you eat can influence how high it rises, but generally, if you don't have diabetes, blood sugar after eating -- what your doctor might call postprandial blood glucose levels -- shouldn't rise to more than 200 mg/dl if you check it within two hours after a meal, according to Virginia Mason Medical Center.