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After fasting for a couple of hours what should my sugar be?

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After fasting for a couple of hours what should my sugar be?

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it depends on what you ate before you started to “fast”. After not eating for TWO hours you blood sugar should be a little high, like 150-200 — DEPENDING ON WHAT YOU ATE. “FASTING” is defined as eight or more hours without food. two hours is not “fasting”. if your doctor asks you to be fasting before a test, you must not eat, nor drink anything but water (clear water, not flavored water, not tea or coffee), for AT LEAST 8 hours. Since this is often difficult for people without self-discipline, you should work with your doctor to schedule the test first thing in the morning, so that you can take the test BEFORE you eat breakfast. take the test, then RUN to Denny’s! If you are taking a blood glucose fasting test, then your reading should be 80-120 after an EIGHT HOUR fast. IDEALLY, the readings should be lower, 70-100. If your reading is high the doctor should ask you to repeat the test within the next 7 days. Diabetes is diagnosed when there are TWO 8-hour fasting readings that are hig

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