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Going down then creeping up again

RobertJ

RobertJ

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Location
Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Pump
I have had an awful few days, which is particularly concerning since I am playing a Korfball match on Sunday and it needs to be in good shape going into that.

My high glucose alarm went off at about 1am and the reading was 13.7, and I have three units. When I woke up at 6:30 it was 9.9 and I gave one unit and did my basal as well.

I had breakfast at Caffe Nero and calculated my meal to be 11CPs. My reading was 12.0 and I had given 13 units 20 minutes before in preparation: that's a 1:1 ratio with two units of correction.

It went up to about 14 but then started trending down so I thought thing would get back into single figures. Once it got to 11.3, it stopped going down and is now going back up. Now it's 13.0. How is this possible? I haven't eaten or drank anything else and I had a 10-minute walk from Caffe Nero to work, so that should have helped a tiny bit.
 
Juicyj said:
Hello @RobertJ

What did you eat at Neros ? Anything with cheese in ?
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I had a banana beforehand and had a tomato and mozzarella panini and a large mocha. I know people could look at this and say I was asking for trouble but I've had this kind of thing before and there's just been a little spike, then it's gone down to being good again.
 
Crumbs no - who care's what you have, it's your choice don't feel judged tho, no one here should do that. Sounds a good choice of panini to me !

The fat in the mozzarella would cause the delay, so brakes on and then a rise, as long as it's ok now, that's cool.
 
RobertJ said:
I had a banana beforehand and had a tomato and mozzarella panini and a large mocha. I know people could look at this and say I was asking for trouble but I've had this kind of thing before and there's just been a little spike, then it's gone down to being good again.
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Grandmother and sucking eggs comes to mind, but it might be that your immune system is defending against a virus/bug etc. I used to get this kind of thing a lot when working in a school, usually without the privilege of showing the symptoms!!
 
Agree with those that your body might be fighting a virus/bug of some kind. Especially if the correction has no/minimal effect.

Cheesy/fatty meals has same effect on me - can go from in range for hours after meal to mountain climbs and frustrating libre alarms in the middle of the night.
 
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