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Berries and glucose levels

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Nance1

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Hello! Just had a shock and received extremely high HbA1c results and trying desperately to overhaul my lifestyle. I've done lots of research and read that berries (blueberries, raspberries, strawberries) are good for T1's. Added them to my bran flakes this morning and sugars have gone through the roof!! Gave myself another few units and waiting it out...but should I stop with the berries then!?
 
Hmm, did you carb count them? Personally I have real problems with insulin resistance in the morning so have to be careful about carbs then.... I do have berries sometimes but bran flakes would push me over the top.

And I wouldn't automatically assume it was the berries on just one reading....
 
Nance1 said:
Hello! Just had a shock and received extremely high HbA1c results and trying desperately to overhaul my lifestyle. I've done lots of research and read that berries (blueberries, raspberries, strawberries) are good for T1's. Added them to my bran flakes this morning and sugars have gone through the roof!! Gave myself another few units and waiting it out...but should I stop with the berries then!?
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T2 here, just wanted to say the bran flakes would impact my bloodsugars a lot more than the berries would... Maybe test for them seperately sometime? See what does what?
 
I agree with @EllieM, it may not be the berries. Now that raspberries are ripening I’m delighted to be able to search them out in the garden and not worry about dosing. Same in the blackberry season, and a punnet of blueberries is a welcome non-dose snack.
T1 is notorious for throwing unexplained highs at us: it could be lots of things that are causing this one off - extra foot on the floor, a bit of stress, fighting some new bacteria or virus that you’ve encountered (hope your immune system wins if it’s this), a change in the weather, insulin getting towards the end of its peak activity . . . .
It’s probably worth trying the berries again and tracking your bloods. And it’s probably worth tracking them anyway to see if you’re running high for any other reason.
Hope they settle soon.
 
I have to admit the only berries I eat are Strawberries and Blueberries, raspberries can be sweet so would only have a couple if any. I have the keto porridge for breakfast now with natural yoghurt and blueberries and count this as 12g of carb, I rarely spike on this, but I would avoid carbs like bran for breakfast as this would send me sailing into the teens and take till lunchtime to get back into range so I tread carefully with breakfast.
 
I went strawberry picking on the weekend. I am on a pump and set a square wave bolus for 1 1/2 hours while picking (basically told my pump I would have aprox 60g carbs and wanted it to dribble insulin in to covert over that time). BGs were good for the 2 hours, then they rose rather quickly. I did eat more than I picked, and I picked a lot :) :)
 
Nance1 said:
Hello! Just had a shock and received extremely high HbA1c results and trying desperately to overhaul my lifestyle. I've done lots of research and read that berries (blueberries, raspberries, strawberries) are good for T1's. Added them to my bran flakes this morning and sugars have gone through the roof!! Gave myself another few units and waiting it out...but should I stop with the berries then!?
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Berries always did good for my BG, I think it's your bran flakes - do you carb count? and the milk. I always weighed my cereal but I've also stopped eating it and went for plain soy yogurt with strawberries, sometimes a banana or an apple with it and bg has been quite good with it.
 
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