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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
How long does your post meal spike tend to last?
I can't get my head round mine! Since getting my Libre I've been much more aware of what is happening with my glucose levels at all times, and I'm finding my glucose spikes after eating to be a bit confusing.
Today for example, I had beans on toast for lunch (full can, 2 slices of Tesco oat and barley bread = about 97g of carbs) and injected for it. Ate that at 2 pm, and at the time of typing, its quarter past 4 and my glucose levels are still rising (currently at 9.7 according to the Libre).
I was under the impression that around 2 hours after eating glucose levels should have pretty much returned to normal, but its not uncommon for mine to stay high for 3 or 4 hours afterwards.
I'm on NovoRapid, about 12g or carbs per 1 unit, I rotate my injection sites, and I can't seem to ever get it to work. If I inject 1 unit less I'm high for 5+ hours, if I inject 1 unit more, the high lasts a much shorter time but I will end up hypo. If I inject according to my insulin:carb ration calculations I am like today and still going up 2 hours later, with an expected drop to normal in another 1 or more.
What's going on?
What are your post meal rises like?
I can't get my head round mine! Since getting my Libre I've been much more aware of what is happening with my glucose levels at all times, and I'm finding my glucose spikes after eating to be a bit confusing.
Today for example, I had beans on toast for lunch (full can, 2 slices of Tesco oat and barley bread = about 97g of carbs) and injected for it. Ate that at 2 pm, and at the time of typing, its quarter past 4 and my glucose levels are still rising (currently at 9.7 according to the Libre).
I was under the impression that around 2 hours after eating glucose levels should have pretty much returned to normal, but its not uncommon for mine to stay high for 3 or 4 hours afterwards.
I'm on NovoRapid, about 12g or carbs per 1 unit, I rotate my injection sites, and I can't seem to ever get it to work. If I inject 1 unit less I'm high for 5+ hours, if I inject 1 unit more, the high lasts a much shorter time but I will end up hypo. If I inject according to my insulin:carb ration calculations I am like today and still going up 2 hours later, with an expected drop to normal in another 1 or more.
What's going on?
What are your post meal rises like?