Hi All,
I might have posted something like this before, but wanted to pop a new thread on the board in case there were new opinions.
Does coffee stop anyone else's insulin from working?
This is a relatively new thing for me (noticed in the last year), I already have massive demands for insulin in the morning (feet on the floor) but now coffee seems to be ruining my sugars even more.
I am currently battling a nasty cold/chest infection that has been driving my sugars up, but I think that my morning coffee has stopped my insulin from working altogether.
This morning i woke a bit high (11- putting this down to my chest infection as it has me running high every night). I took 15u humalog to cover off the high sugar and 2 pieces of toast. I also had 1.5 cups of black coffee. Now 3 hours post-meal my sugars have risen to 18 and are starting to decline. A rise of 7mmol isn't normal for me after lunch or dinner, so the only difference I can see would be the addition of coffee into the mix.
I have spoken to my DSN who just tells me to correct the high, but I'd rather get to the root of the issue. She has suggested that I might need to move to levemir, with a higher dose to cover the morning-time.
I'm just on so much insulin already and still struggling to control, that it really gets me down at times! The more that I need to correct, the more weight I gain and the higher likelihood of hypos later in the day.
My normal day would look like this 5ish units humalog on waking to prevent FOF, then around 12-14u humalog for breakfast. Lunch would be around 12u humalog and dinner will normally be around 10-12u (my insulin needs decrease as the day goes on). I then take around 40u lantus before bed. I might also need to correct during the day, around 5-10units.
So, probably 90u on an average day. I'm a 30yo female, who is carrying a few extra pounds (which I put down to insulin), but not overly heavy or obese.
I don't eat abnormally or extravagantly, I exercise (which can bring down my sugars, or send them up sometimes), but I'm still struggling with control. A normal day would be cereal or toast for breakfast with a coffee or two, lunch would be soup or salad, dinner would be pasta or a homemade curry with rice, for example.
Stupid things like coffee (which should be a zero carb, easy treat) can really ****** things up!
Sorry for the rant! I'd like to know whether anyone has faced the same issues and solved them, or any advice that you have been given for these issues.
I might have posted something like this before, but wanted to pop a new thread on the board in case there were new opinions.
Does coffee stop anyone else's insulin from working?
This is a relatively new thing for me (noticed in the last year), I already have massive demands for insulin in the morning (feet on the floor) but now coffee seems to be ruining my sugars even more.
I am currently battling a nasty cold/chest infection that has been driving my sugars up, but I think that my morning coffee has stopped my insulin from working altogether.
This morning i woke a bit high (11- putting this down to my chest infection as it has me running high every night). I took 15u humalog to cover off the high sugar and 2 pieces of toast. I also had 1.5 cups of black coffee. Now 3 hours post-meal my sugars have risen to 18 and are starting to decline. A rise of 7mmol isn't normal for me after lunch or dinner, so the only difference I can see would be the addition of coffee into the mix.
I have spoken to my DSN who just tells me to correct the high, but I'd rather get to the root of the issue. She has suggested that I might need to move to levemir, with a higher dose to cover the morning-time.
I'm just on so much insulin already and still struggling to control, that it really gets me down at times! The more that I need to correct, the more weight I gain and the higher likelihood of hypos later in the day.
My normal day would look like this 5ish units humalog on waking to prevent FOF, then around 12-14u humalog for breakfast. Lunch would be around 12u humalog and dinner will normally be around 10-12u (my insulin needs decrease as the day goes on). I then take around 40u lantus before bed. I might also need to correct during the day, around 5-10units.
So, probably 90u on an average day. I'm a 30yo female, who is carrying a few extra pounds (which I put down to insulin), but not overly heavy or obese.
I don't eat abnormally or extravagantly, I exercise (which can bring down my sugars, or send them up sometimes), but I'm still struggling with control. A normal day would be cereal or toast for breakfast with a coffee or two, lunch would be soup or salad, dinner would be pasta or a homemade curry with rice, for example.
Stupid things like coffee (which should be a zero carb, easy treat) can really ****** things up!
Sorry for the rant! I'd like to know whether anyone has faced the same issues and solved them, or any advice that you have been given for these issues.