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<blockquote data-quote="Auckland Canary" data-source="post: 1069429" data-attributes="member: 70613"><p>I was wondering if anyone else has experiences of coffee making their blood sugar spike? I am not really a coffee drinker (prefer tea) but after my last trip to NZ at Christmas I often found myself in some of the numerous and excellent coffee shops and drinking a lot more coffee than I normally do. I ummed and ahhed a bit but decided to get a Nespresso machine when I got back. I was careful not to get too into coffee as I think that it is addictive and don’t think caffeine is the best thing for anyone. So normally I just have 1 coffee a day when I get home from work with some frothy milk which frankly is pretty tasty. However I have started to notice that my blood seems to be spiking in the evenings now and also during the night. Normally I regard anything over a 7 as high but have regularly now started getting 10’s and 12’s before bed and during the night.</p><p>Now I haven’t changed anything I normally do but I have noticed that when I was in NZ my levels and insulin requirements went up substantially (I am on a pump) which I put down to the fact I wasn’t cycling 20 miles every day which I do here and just the change in routine and it being Christmas and eating out etc. However strangely my basal levels have remained high since I have come back particularly in the evening. Before going to NZ I was on about 0.7 units an hour in the evening but now I am over 1 unit despite having the same routine as before I went. I am even bolusing 2 units for the coffee now which seems a bit extreme but I am not getting the levels down. So I am wondering if just one cup of coffee can have this effect on people? My levels during the day are pretty much spot on with similar basal rates I had last year.</p><p>I spoke to a friend of a friend last year who is T1 and she said that she had to bolus for coffee but only if she drank it in the morning not in the evening so does the caffeine have an effect on sugar levels?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Auckland Canary, post: 1069429, member: 70613"] I was wondering if anyone else has experiences of coffee making their blood sugar spike? I am not really a coffee drinker (prefer tea) but after my last trip to NZ at Christmas I often found myself in some of the numerous and excellent coffee shops and drinking a lot more coffee than I normally do. I ummed and ahhed a bit but decided to get a Nespresso machine when I got back. I was careful not to get too into coffee as I think that it is addictive and don’t think caffeine is the best thing for anyone. So normally I just have 1 coffee a day when I get home from work with some frothy milk which frankly is pretty tasty. However I have started to notice that my blood seems to be spiking in the evenings now and also during the night. Normally I regard anything over a 7 as high but have regularly now started getting 10’s and 12’s before bed and during the night. Now I haven’t changed anything I normally do but I have noticed that when I was in NZ my levels and insulin requirements went up substantially (I am on a pump) which I put down to the fact I wasn’t cycling 20 miles every day which I do here and just the change in routine and it being Christmas and eating out etc. However strangely my basal levels have remained high since I have come back particularly in the evening. Before going to NZ I was on about 0.7 units an hour in the evening but now I am over 1 unit despite having the same routine as before I went. I am even bolusing 2 units for the coffee now which seems a bit extreme but I am not getting the levels down. So I am wondering if just one cup of coffee can have this effect on people? My levels during the day are pretty much spot on with similar basal rates I had last year. I spoke to a friend of a friend last year who is T1 and she said that she had to bolus for coffee but only if she drank it in the morning not in the evening so does the caffeine have an effect on sugar levels? [/QUOTE]
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