Does this annoy anyone else

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Permalink Reply by Jan on September 3, 2007 at 1:41pm

This is a controversial question for Type 1s. Although overeating and lack of exercise cannot cause Type 1, once you have diabetes what you eat, unfortunately, DOES effect blood sugar. And insulin is a poor match for a lot of food. Therefore, after we routinely see spikes in high 390s to 400s after eating a modest bowl of Honeycomb cereal, and giving more insulin will help somewhat but then cause her to go low, we simply got around the problem by serving something else for breakfast. Cereal for breakfast is now only occasional, not the norm. Until we learn how to properly bolus for certain foods, we change our habits. I have noticed a lot of the adult bloggers on the continuous monitors have come to the very same conclusion regarding breakfast cereal..... Hey, it AIN'T worth it! Once we have our continuous monitor, we will test a lot of foods and try to find a solution for the problem foods. I think for us, substitution will be the sensible alternative to those types of foods we can't find a solution for.

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Permalink Reply by Doris Ann Dickerson on September 4, 2007 at 8:41am

Agreed!

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Permalink Reply by beetis on September 6, 2007 at 9:10am

i disagree. i have a bowl of cheerios, lucky charms, life, reese puffs, honey bunches of oats, etc etc, and my sugar is fine. its called an insulin pump. 78 grams for a bowl of cheerios, 102 for lucky charms, 98 for life, 80 somethin for puffs, and i cant remember hboo. the insulin pump is honestly the best thing you can do for your type 1 diabetes, my A1C when from 7.9 to 6.4 in the first 4 months of having the pump, high BGs after cereal is a thing of the past.

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Permalink Reply by Penny R. on September 21, 2007 at 10:18am

My son is on a pump, but he still has spikes if he eats any kind of cereal. The pump is great. But, it's not so simple as to say you can eat anything and everything without it affecting your sugars just because you're on a pump.

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Permalink Reply by Misty on August 29, 2008 at 6:48am

I keep reading that excess insulin makes you gain weight. Do you have trouble eating like this and compensating with extra insulin, and keeping the pounds off?

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Permalink Reply by Doris Ann Dickerson on September 4, 2007 at 8:39am

I REALLY have to go along with you on that one!!!!! My husband can make me the maddest of all! He has been married to me for 23 years ans has a 19 year old daughter with Tpye 1 too and his mom was a Type 2 but he loves to tell me what to eat when to eat it and what will cause my bs to go up if I'm down or what will cause it to go down if it's up! GRRRRRR............

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Permalink Reply by Cody Turner on September 4, 2007 at 10:05am

For the most part my blood sugar is under good control. Basically the only times i have problems with it is when a) i am sick or b) i have had a steriod shot for asthma. I realize food has a factor in it, but so does other things as well. That is the part that makes me mad. Some of my friends say what have you eaten to cause it to go up first question, now my doctor when i tell him it spiked he asks me have you been sick or have you had steriods. He knows that I follow my diet and keep it under control.

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Permalink Reply by Doris Ann Dickerson on September 4, 2007 at 12:07pm

Those steriods will ALWAYS make me go up WAYYYY high and when I have something as simple as the common cold!!!! Sometimes I just want to get off the marrigoround! Mine for years wasn't under the best control but it has seemed to me the more I try to get it there the worse it gets!!! As for most Dr's hey will tell you what you should do and then not do it themselves! I had this one Dr who preached at me a blue streak for smoking (bad I know) but he done it himself! But he told me he was ok and I had diabetes sorry but guess who died of lung cancer and who (so far so good) don't have it! Yes I'm tryng to quit now but not back then. It comes down to who knows your body better you or the Dr almost everytime it's you! That's what I love about my Dr he will tell you " You know more about how you feel than I do so try it and see." Honestly you will learn to know what will shout you threw the roof and what won't. Always remember to know your own milage. We all are different! Nomatter what your not a "textbook" case!

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Permalink Reply by Cody Turner on September 4, 2007 at 1:00pm

Doris,
I am lucky to have a great doctor. For the most part he lets me adjust my insulin 5 units here or there, but for major adjustments I have to call him, but he lets me do it cause as you said I know my body better than anyone. I just get annoyed at people who have no clue about diabetes trying to tell me I am doing things wrong.

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Permalink Reply by Doris Ann Dickerson on September 17, 2007 at 5:15am

I agree with your statement farher down I have told alot of ppl to shut up I know what I'm doing and YOU don't! It is really nice your Dr ackonalages that you know yourself better than anybody! I have had the same Dr for 23 years b/c he told me that and another thing he does that makes me love him is that when he don't know the answer he will tell you I don't know you need to see whatever kind of Dr and refers me to some great ones that know how to deal with a diabetic and whatevers wrong! I just love that attitude in a DR!!!

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Permalink Reply by karen on August 29, 2008 at 5:58am

Hi Cody
Congrates about returning to school. I did it and loved it. I actually miss it since I graduated. Anyway, something you said made me think. I have never asked my doctor about adjusting, on a temp basis, my insulin when given a steriod shot. Is this some thing that is normal? I just did it to bring my levels down to normal. He has never told me I couldn't do it without talking to him first. Gee, maybe it is something I should ask him at my next appointment. I just figured I had to bring it down. See I learn something newhere everyday.

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Permalink Reply by Timothy Bays on September 20, 2008 at 10:08pm

Cody, a few weeks ago, I ran into an old college buddy who asked me about how my diabetes was going. I told him I was trying to get an insulin pump and his
face distorted and he said, "Oh my God! I am so sorry to hear that!" Jeez, most people are sooo ill-informed. I just laughed at him,, then explained what a pump
does. I think the public at-large should be better educated about a disease that so many people are diagnosed with on a daily basis. Maybe someday.

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