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Nakkazi

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Hello everyone
I would like to know, why is it when I eat apparticular food I react differently to it and another doesn't who is also type 1
For example, if I eat a slice of potatoe my glucose goes high and if another takes the same slice it doesn't affect his/her glucose level.
 
Nakkazi said:
For example, if I eat a slice of potatoe my glucose goes high and if another takes the same slice it doesn't affect his/her glucose level.
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It basically just comes down to 'we're all different', I've heard people say you can have a snack up to 10 carbs during the day and it'll be fine, it may be fine for them but I know for me it isn't, I definitely need my fast acting to cover that. Some people just react differently to different types of carbs as well.
 
As @Rokaab has said - We are all different. And also eating the same foods every day can give differing results. Welcome to the type one diabetic world :)
 
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It could be related to your insulin management.
For example, the other person may have more "spare basal". If we are on MDI we take one or two basal shots a day and assume our needs are the same for 24 hours. However, we may need more basal during the night when we are lying around doing nothin but sleep compared to when we are running around during the. So we take enough basal to stay level over night which means we have "spare basal during the day. The daytime/nighttime basal ratio may be more pronounced in some people than others.
Another thing may be the time of our bolus. Different food taking different lengths of time to be digested and start to affect our blood sugars and this speed of digestion will be different for different people The speed fast acting insulin works should be the same most of the time (although it may differ for different people). In an ideal world we match the time the insulin starts working with the time the food takes to digest. This is very difficult but, typically, pre-bolusing (injecting about 15 minutes before eating ... although this time can vary from person to person and food to food) helps avoid the spikes.
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I HV now got it
It's not all about the the food and type 1 diabetes
But very many things makes it different.from the body,to the insulin,to the speed of digestion, activity etc thanks
 
Rokaab said:
It basically just comes down to 'we're all different', I've heard people say you can have a snack up to 10 carbs during the day and it'll be fine, it may be fine for them but I know for me it isn't, I definitely need my fast acting to cover that. Some people just react differently to different types of carbs as well.
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We are different that's true, even identical twins are different in so many ways.i guess this a wake up call to not try to hook my self on things that are not working out with my body. Thank you
 
Like others have said we’re all individual, especially when it comes to diabetes. Unfortunately there is no one cap fits all, I’d go as far to say as the cap for one person doesn’t always fit that person every day. Diabetes is about gaining experience about what suits you and what doesn’t.diabetes if very much like life gaining experiences and learning from them ,
Stay safe
Be well
 
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