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Permalink Reply by Virtue on April 13, 2010 at 9:29am

I've heard of this happening with Type 1. I think there's some thought about the caffeine affecting blood sugars... Whatever the case, I've knon people that had to count their coffee as about 10 grams of carbs or so.

Yeah Team Reverse the Big D!

Best,
Virtue.

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Permalink Reply by rockett on April 13, 2010 at 10:05am

Big Daddy you say 2% is that fat content? I checked out plain milk at the supermarket the other day Full cream milk sugar 5.2% down to no fat milk 4.9% sugar.per 100 grams considering soft drink has 10% sugar per 100g. I was suprised how much sugar was in plain milk. (australian milk)

I had a lot of pancreas pain, to the stage the pain radiated up along the botttom of my ribs and if any clothes touched or rubbed against my stomach skin area i was in agony. One weekend i run out of pain killers and noticed by monday the pain wasnt so bad, so stopped pain killers and about fortnight later pancreas was no longer in pain. Several months later another problem, took same pain killers again and sure enough pancreas was in pain again. Even after stopping taking pain killers it took 2 weeks for pancreas to setttle down.

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Permalink Reply by Big Daddy on April 13, 2010 at 10:21pm

I can relate to pain of the pancreas. Was hospitalized for just under 1 month on Dilaudid. When that puppy acts up it's no joke.

Definitely something to the coffee thing. Glad it's not just me going nuts, lol

Thanx to all

Big D

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Permalink Reply by Dennis on April 13, 2010 at 3:45pm

And can try cutting things in Half.. if use 2-1 scoop of coffee mix, go for a 4-1, etc..

Next , I would try DeCaf and use Only Creamora..ie: No Carbs..

Then try just TEA..

and see what happens

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Permalink Reply by Gary Harrison on April 13, 2010 at 4:14pm

Big D

I am type 2, and found that my number does go up with coffee, At first it was a teaspoon of powdered creamer
with one packet of Splenda
I no longer use Splenda but creamer only.
This morning at 3 AM I was 92, at 4 AM I was 114
I have seen the same results with just Black coffee also
I tend to lean toward the Caffeine part of it.

Gary

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Permalink Reply by barbraann on April 13, 2010 at 4:27pm

Yup! Goes up about 20 pts. I only use cream.

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Permalink Reply by David on April 13, 2010 at 4:43pm

I'm type I and I go up 20-30 points on black coffee. It must kick my liver into high gear. I had unexpected highs every afternoon well after lunch and my ENDO picked up on the fact I was snacking on a cup of java around 4:30. I bolus for it and stay steady.

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Permalink Reply by Michele on April 13, 2010 at 4:47pm

I go up about 40-50 points with my espresso! Crazy! My worst sugar spikes are coffee mixed with starch - went to 300 with homemade Easter bread and espresso last week. Totally out of proportion to the carbs. If I eat protein with the coffee, it's not so bad.

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Permalink Reply by ConnorsMom on April 13, 2010 at 5:36pm

Coffee with sugar substitute or sugar spikes his glucose like crazy and he HATES strong coffee....he drinks it pretty watered down. What we were told was that caffeine, even the smallest amounts interfere with the absorption of insulin

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Permalink Reply by trapped on April 16, 2010 at 3:59am

Hi, I am brand new here and recently diagnosed possibly after years of diabetes.I am watching my BG like a hawk and there is no question caffeine spikes me, i switched to decaf and problem is solved :)

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Permalink Reply by Helmut on April 16, 2010 at 5:08pm

John,

I noticed the same thing. Now I bolus 1 unit when I get out of bed. This keeps my BG flat. I had no idea that my BG went up without eating carbs. I always wondered why a small breakfast would send my BG high. Now I know that my BG was already high before breakfast even that it was OK when I got out of bed (when I used to measure).

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Permalink Reply by Kathyann on April 16, 2010 at 6:49am

I drink decaf and only about once a week so I didn't know there was a problem. But I was having spikes with dark chocolate so now I leave that alone.

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