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Grapefruit ?

Antje77

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OK, the question mark is a lie. I'm going to eat one tonight. I'm not very experienced in bolusing for fruit, as I found many fruits give me a strong spike, and then a quick drop as the carbs are too quick for my insulin; they wear off long before the tail of the insulin.
Anyone with some experience or advice?
 
I’m no expert as I’m still getting my head around everything but I think if you’re not on statins then you’d be able to eat grapefruit. I’ve heard that it’s bad if you take statin though
 
bulkbiker said:
Grapefruit is in fact contra indicated for lots of medications as I think.

https://www.nhs.uk/news/medication/prescription-drugs-and-grapefruit-a-deadly-mix/
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That explains something. The other night I needed something to eat before going to bed, and found a grapefruit, and then I took some salmeterol. I woke up an hour or two later with a really rapid heartbeat, it was horrible.

That is most likely why. I like grapefruit though, so it wins.

I assume @Antje77 has eaten the grapefruit by now, so I won't offer any advice on how to bolus for it. Unless he got scared off.
 
I just bolus normally for fruit, but if you don't want to do that then consider

1) prebolus by 10-15min (or whatever time you think is most suitable)
or
2) exercise instead of/in addition to bolusing. You could try bolusing for half and exercising off the other half
or
3) temp basal of +10% (or whatever you want) set before you start eating, I would recommend half an hour earlier but depends on how quickly insulin works for you
or
4) eat more slowly. Have half the fruit with your usual bolus, then once you've stabilised a bit, have the rest.
 
Thanks for your answers everyone! I ate my grapefruit and it was wonderful! I've never eaten such a sweet grapefruit in my life! (Might have something to do with not having eaten much sweet things and no grapefruits at all since diagnosis 1,5 years ago and definitely makes me want to eat more of them!)
Thanks for the warning, @chaoticliloj , luckily I ditched the statins prescribed after diagnosis whithin a couple of weeks, so no problem there. I still take blood pressure tablets next to my insulin (enalapril , an ACE thingamajig) and will look into interactions before my next grapefruit )
@Alison54321 , happy I didn't read the answers before eating. It would have probably scared me off and I would have missed my wonderful grapefruit :)
@phdiabetic , sounds like very sophisticated advice , especially on a pump, which I am not. I used another alternative trick : bg was moving down so I may have prevented a hypo with it. Then again, the hypo might never have happened without the grapefruit either. And I had a complicated dinner with unknown but quick acting carbs (very low carb except for a lot of soy sauce - 68 %) plus an unexplainable hypo in the afternoon, plus possibly compromised insulin from heat. So I still have no clue what the grapefruit did.
I'll have to try again I guess :)
 
Antje77 said:
... I still take blood pressure tablets next to my insulin (enalapril , an ACE thingamajig) and will look into interactions before my next grapefruit )
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I’m on Ramipril another ACE thingamajig. No interactions are known with grapefruit , so go ahead and try another! Personally I’ve never liked them :depressed:
 
Had a more sensible test today with the second grapefruit and it looks like a whole grapefruit is off the menu. I guess I did prevent a hypo with it yesterday :(
There's one to go,though,as one had gone a bit off so I gave it to the guinea-pigs. Tomorrow will tell if I have another try or if the guinea-pigs have a lucky day again.
 
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