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OK, this isn't a totally scientific study, but I'm quite clear that this happens.
A bit of background. Insulin dependant, antibody test inconclusive so could be T1 or T2 not that it matters. I exercise a fair bit walking and cycling. Retired.
I get by eating quite normally using a ratio of 25:1 am and noon, and 20:1 at tea time. For a while I have not been eating after 6pm which has given me a good going to bed level, and a good waking one. Occasionally low but manageable.
On Saturday night I had a handful of grapes (say 10 grapes = 10 carbs) and some cheese, quite a bit of cheese, say 100g, but according to the packet negligible carbs.
I know that as the evenings are an inactive period I have to take a much higher dose and so I took 1.5 units!!! Nevertheless at bedtime I was 10.7! So I took another 2.5. This brought me down to 6.0 by Sunday morning.
Sunday evening I thought as an experiment I'd have cheese but no grapes. Took no insulin and by bed time I was 9.3, so I took 3 units. This morning I was 8.1.
So my question really is why is cheese taking me so high? I eat it at lunch time, and teatime and it doesn't have the effect. And why is insulin so ineffective or rather why an I so insensitive to it when inactive?
Is this normal and do others find this?
Thanks.
A bit of background. Insulin dependant, antibody test inconclusive so could be T1 or T2 not that it matters. I exercise a fair bit walking and cycling. Retired.
I get by eating quite normally using a ratio of 25:1 am and noon, and 20:1 at tea time. For a while I have not been eating after 6pm which has given me a good going to bed level, and a good waking one. Occasionally low but manageable.
On Saturday night I had a handful of grapes (say 10 grapes = 10 carbs) and some cheese, quite a bit of cheese, say 100g, but according to the packet negligible carbs.
I know that as the evenings are an inactive period I have to take a much higher dose and so I took 1.5 units!!! Nevertheless at bedtime I was 10.7! So I took another 2.5. This brought me down to 6.0 by Sunday morning.
Sunday evening I thought as an experiment I'd have cheese but no grapes. Took no insulin and by bed time I was 9.3, so I took 3 units. This morning I was 8.1.
So my question really is why is cheese taking me so high? I eat it at lunch time, and teatime and it doesn't have the effect. And why is insulin so ineffective or rather why an I so insensitive to it when inactive?
Is this normal and do others find this?
Thanks.