9g bar or 9g of carbs.
With milk, barley and oats plus whatever they stick it together with its probable 90% will be carbs.
Please bear in mind the OP has type 1 diabetes (as indicated by the sub-forum this is posted in).9g bar or 9g of carbs.
With milk, barley and oats plus whatever they stick it together with its probable 90% will be carbs.
Just wondering about the wider context in which it was eaten, @Indy1282 ?
Some possibilities spring to mind:
Maybe early morning, when many of us get a "foot on floor" rise anyway just by getting up, so perhaps the insulin was dealing not only with the carbs in the bar, but also the foot on floor rise?
Or maybe if eaten as a mid-afternoon snack, bg was maybe on an upward trend anyway from a possibly underbolused lunch?
One of the things I've started paying a lot more attention to since gettting libre is not just the straight carb/bolus count for that particular meal/snack, but also looking at what's been happening more generally in the last few hours, whether level is trending up or down or is level, and how much IOB I've still got working.
Taking those other factors into account can radically alter the picture.
I am type2 and I have found that there are whole swathes of stuff I stay well away from.
Another thing that ALWAYS spikes me no matter what time I eat it is Weetabix, even if I over bolus I still spike massively
Yeah, that can always be a tricky one!
Why though?? What's in it??? Honestly I had it last night when my insulin requirement is at its lowest- I was 7.4mmol before and 2 hours after 17mmol!!! I even gave extra insulin
Why though?? What's in it??? Honestly I had it last night when my insulin requirement is at its lowest- I was 7.4mmol before and 2 hours after 17mmol!!! I even gave extra insulin
Like @slip says, ratios and timing. DAFNE says 1u for 10g but for many of us, that just disnae work. Also, pre-bolusing, injecting a while before the meal to let the insulin get to work, can make a huge difference, otherwise the insulin is playing catch-up with the food.
If neither of those work, my take on it is that, we're T1, we can technically eat whatever we want, but, in practice, some meals are just more bother than they're worth.
I think a lot depends on the carb type, how it's mixed with other food types, and individual biology.
With me, for example, I know that white rice and rice noodles are really unpredictable, so I tend to avoid them, but brown rice and egg noodles are absolutely fine, they actually keep me really steady for hours on end. The rate at which they are absorbed just seem to match my insulin patterns.
Likewise, chips and boiled potatoes are a mine-field, but baked potatoes keep me very steady, for me.
As I say, though, that's just me - others might find the same or the opposite.
With weetabix, I suppose with it being made from wheat, that's absorbed quite fast, so maybe the insulin is just not keeping up with the rate of absorption if not pre-bolusing.
I suppose it's just a case of experimenting and seeing which carbs "work" and which don't.
Good luck!
I think there is something about wheat that makes it problematic.Why though?? What's in it??? Honestly I had it last night when my insulin requirement is at its lowest- I was 7.4mmol before and 2 hours after 17mmol!!! I even gave extra insulin
When I have Weetabix I take my insulin about 20 mins before I eat it. Somedays I spike quite high and others I hypo with the same doses.I'm pretty spot on with my ratios and used to pre bolusing before meals. I think weetabix just doens not work with me! I'm ok with potatoes cooked all ways but still limit to 30 -40g per meal. Rice is so ok, pasta a bit more tricky but manageable.