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Permalink Reply by christy on April 17, 2012 at 5:24pm

My overnight basal's are just CRAZY. I woke up around 147 AM and felt a little low...and was 51, had like 5 of those little jelly belly size jelly beans, and woke up this morning 200 something. I'm trying to tweak but I either run high or run low depending on which way I go. I wish I could make my pump settings even less that .25 increments. Oh well lol. Life is def much better ON the pump.

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Permalink Reply by Leo2 on April 15, 2012 at 12:10pm

AW! Big Pharmas NEED their PROFITS!
When BG is HIGH, I take insulin and bring it DOWN so it will land at 100.
THEN, I can eat.
BUT I SURE wouldn't eat THAT.
There's so many unprocessed, fresh foods that can give me carbs when I want them.
NO, is my simple answer. The precedent was only my thinking. I have had a lot of years of anger about what society lets companies get away with advertising. And notice that no one advertises that it's CARBS we are needing to take insulin for, not just sugar.

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Permalink Reply by DiabeticWarrior on April 16, 2012 at 12:55pm

Interesting posts, thanks for answering.
Now my other question is, if a snack has 30g of carbs and 10g of sugar in it, do you need to bolus like it was a 40g of carbs or do you just ignore the sugar?

Are we allowed to have foods with low sugar in them or do we have to avoid sugar at all cost?

I know that we need a certain amount of sugar for our brain to function properly.
Is starving our body from sugar completely a dangerous thing to do?

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Permalink Reply by Gerri on April 16, 2012 at 1:14pm

Bolus for the total amount of carbs, which in the case you're stating is 30 carbs.

Our brains & bodies need glucose, not sugar. If you never ate sugar, you wouldn't be starved:) Carbs are quickly converted into glucose. About 58% of protein is also converted to glucose (gluconeogenesis) at a slower rate & a small percentage of fat is also converted to glucose.

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Permalink Reply by Shawnmarie on April 16, 2012 at 2:50pm

Gerri said this as well, but just to clarify, when the label says 30g of carbs and it lists 10g of sugar, what it's saying is that 10g of the listed 30g are sugar. It's not 10g of sugar in addition to the 30g of carbs.

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Permalink Reply by Chris Miller on April 16, 2012 at 3:05pm

Further to that, you can subtract the fibre content. If I eat a package of oatmeal with 33 grams of carbs, I can subtract the 4 grams of fibre, so it's only 29 carbs.

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Permalink Reply by Felicia on April 18, 2012 at 11:57am

I wouldn't eat any type of carb when im high. drink water and get your blood sugar down first

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Permalink Reply by DiabeticWarrior on April 19, 2012 at 8:15am

I wish i could just drink water, but i get so hungry sometimes i have to eat.

I always had a big appetite, it's not easy after 39 years of eating like a bear and now i have to eat like a rabbit.

But i tried the almonds and cheese snack and it works, satisfies my hunger for a few minutes...

I need to find filling snacks.

thanks for the tip Felicia.

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