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<blockquote data-quote="lollerhaylz" data-source="post: 1974629" data-attributes="member: 499603"><p>Hi! </p><p>New to the forums, I'm Type 1 and injecting Novorapid for meals and Lantus in the evening. I'm trying to tackle my high sugars in the mornings. I recently saw a diabetes dietician and she suggested I make a switch from my usual breakfast bars of about 30g of carbs to something with low GI. For the past 2 days I have been having a pot of natural greek style yogurt with 50g of mixed nuts and raisins thrown in. Overall carbs is now 15g.</p><p>I thought this was going to be great because it seems like a healthier breakfast and it is keeping me full until lunch. However my post-meal readings are now way worse than they ever were with the breakfast bars and I feel so frustrated.</p><p>I take 3 units of Novorapid as soon as I get up at 7am because my blood sugar starts rising rapidly. By 8am my sugar will have risen by 1 or 2 even with the 3 units. I then have my breakfast at 9:30am at work and my ratio is 1 unit:5g, so I have been taking 3 units for the yogurt and nuts, injected about 10 mins before I eat. </p><p>Yesterday I had a pre-meal reading of 11 which rose up to 19.6 after 2 hrs! It then dipped down to 15.5 after another hour.</p><p>Today I took 4 units for the same breakfast, my pre-meal reading was 7.3 and it has risen up to 18 after 2 hrs! I don't want to feel as rubbish as I did yesterday so I've taken a correction dose of 2 units to get this down.</p><p>I can't understand why this is happening because I was under the impression that low GI foods should level my blood sugars out? I'm wondering whether I should just go back to the breakfast bars, or is there something I can do such as splitting the novorapid dose?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lollerhaylz, post: 1974629, member: 499603"] Hi! New to the forums, I'm Type 1 and injecting Novorapid for meals and Lantus in the evening. I'm trying to tackle my high sugars in the mornings. I recently saw a diabetes dietician and she suggested I make a switch from my usual breakfast bars of about 30g of carbs to something with low GI. For the past 2 days I have been having a pot of natural greek style yogurt with 50g of mixed nuts and raisins thrown in. Overall carbs is now 15g. I thought this was going to be great because it seems like a healthier breakfast and it is keeping me full until lunch. However my post-meal readings are now way worse than they ever were with the breakfast bars and I feel so frustrated. I take 3 units of Novorapid as soon as I get up at 7am because my blood sugar starts rising rapidly. By 8am my sugar will have risen by 1 or 2 even with the 3 units. I then have my breakfast at 9:30am at work and my ratio is 1 unit:5g, so I have been taking 3 units for the yogurt and nuts, injected about 10 mins before I eat. Yesterday I had a pre-meal reading of 11 which rose up to 19.6 after 2 hrs! It then dipped down to 15.5 after another hour. Today I took 4 units for the same breakfast, my pre-meal reading was 7.3 and it has risen up to 18 after 2 hrs! I don't want to feel as rubbish as I did yesterday so I've taken a correction dose of 2 units to get this down. I can't understand why this is happening because I was under the impression that low GI foods should level my blood sugars out? I'm wondering whether I should just go back to the breakfast bars, or is there something I can do such as splitting the novorapid dose? [/QUOTE]
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