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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.
Often, people will test blood sugar half an hour or an hour after they eat, said Uelmen, but this is sooner than experts recommend. Testing too soon after you've had a meal or snack will give you results that are probably too high.