59 mg/dl after pizza?

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Permalink Reply by Rick Phillips on February 8, 2009 at 8:42pm

Oh don't worry Kelly,,, the PIZZA MONSTER WILL PREVAIL!!!!!!

He always does when he comes to my house.

Rick Phillips

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Permalink Reply by Domo! on February 9, 2009 at 12:30am

i had white castle this weekend, five delicious mini jalapeno burgers and fries, had to be over 80 carbs. I gave myself 18u of humalog and found myself at 66. Next time i'll figure out the carbs better, but usually i guesstimate when the carbs are that high or when there's no nutrition menu around.

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Permalink Reply by Diabetic_Iz_Me on February 15, 2009 at 8:13pm

Domo!-

I love whitecastle's! I haven't been there in years.

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Permalink Reply by debb on February 9, 2009 at 3:28am

my biggest weakness is pizza. i don't take insulin so when i eat i pay big time.
my sugar will still be on the high side the next morning. then...there is the pizza refrigerate monster.
you get up the next morning and he is sitting right in front in the fridge and he is just wagging his face
in yours and you know you shouldn't do it, but cold breakfast pizza has to be the best thing out there.
along with a tall glass of milk. i have no will power against the fridge pizza monster.

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Permalink Reply by Dave on February 9, 2009 at 3:52am

Pizza is tricky especially if you are giving yourself shots. There is a very good chance that if you checked in hour 4 or 5 your BG might actually have been high.

If you use a pump then you would do a dual wave bolus take some insulin up front to cover the fast digesting carbs (the crust) but because of the fat from the cheese you can get a huge spike 3-6 hours later. I have been in your situation before where I take my insulin and my BG is doing really well and then all of the sudden boom it goes high. Testing frequently when eating pizza is the key so you know how your body deals with the fat and carbs.

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Permalink Reply by Kelly Rawlings on February 9, 2009 at 7:57am

At 4.5 hours, I was 87 and started to get a little nervous (it was time for bed and I didn't want to crash). I had a couple of glucose tabs (typically representing about 30 mg/dl rise in bg for me) and waited one hour. Bummer! I was up to 178. Oh well. At least the pizza was delicious!

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Permalink Reply by Robert on February 9, 2009 at 3:56am

pizza is evil. crash you and yu correct slightly, and then brings you over the to with some kind of evil hiden carb. Evil evil evil!

I wish you well

Robert

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Permalink Reply by Khürt Williams on February 9, 2009 at 4:10am

As long I have no more than two slices I can beat the pizza roller coaster. Before I figured out what worked for me I would eat 3 or four slices and ride the worlds highest drop stomach churner. Hitting the 40s then glucose tabbing myself back into the 200s. I use a insulin pen so I was along for a wild ride.

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Permalink Reply by Jonathan on February 9, 2009 at 8:39am

It is so reassurring to see how many others are affected by the pizza monster. I get so frustrated when I am low an hour or two after eating pizza because, rationally, I know I will be much higher in a couple of hours. There is always a temptation to not correct the low, since it seems that correcting the low triggers the pizza-rise to start. What works for me is a big bolus that is 50/50 between a normal bolus and a 3 1/2 hour square wave (usually, I do a 70/30 split over 2 hours), plus another normal bolus at the 3 hour mark. It works for me. But, we are all different.

Rick is right: The Pizza Monster will always prevail.

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Permalink Reply by Joe Lenegan on February 9, 2009 at 1:53pm

Anyone use regular with pizza? I had some luck splitting my humalog 50:50 with regular, since it tends to stick around longer

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Permalink Reply by Joe on February 15, 2009 at 7:28pm

=) YA, I was on regular a long time and it is MUCH better for pizza. I have a pump program now so I can kinda replicate the regular "slow to start and hang around for 3 hours" peak with humalog. Cheers.

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Permalink Reply by Suzanne on February 9, 2009 at 4:49pm

I have been avoiding regular pizza since going on the pump because of blood sugars stories like this.....I do eat Kashi Thin Crust frozen pizzas without any weird blood sugars. What is awesome about them is they are fairly low carb for pizza (average of 44g carb for half of a big pizza) and they actually taste pretty good! Not the same as Pizza Hut or Papa John's but it seems to work out OK....

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