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Sable_Wolf

Sable_Wolf

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Hi all

I'm T2 on Metformin and for quite some time now within an hour of having a small breakfast (shreddies or cornflakes with little milk) my glucose levels shoot up to around 15mmol/ml, They do come back down but I feel it's keeping my HbA1c reading a tad high. Has anyone had something similar and then had to change their meds to help? I have another review in three months but it's good to speak to others if they have something similar.

Many thanks,
 
Both Shreddies and cornflakes have too many carbs for me, same with other cereals and toast. My standard breakfast is typically some Greek yoghurt with a few ( 4 or 5 ) berries, or 1 or 2 boiled eggs. Scrambled eggs or fried eggs also make an entrance some mornings. If I’m particularly hungry then some bacon or sausages with half a tomato and a couple of mushrooms might join the eggs :)
 
Sable_Wolf said:
Hi all

I'm T2 on Metformin and for quite some time now within an hour of having a small breakfast (shreddies or cornflakes with little milk) my glucose levels shoot up to around 15mmol/ml, They do come back down but I feel it's keeping my HbA1c reading a tad high. Has anyone had something similar and then had to change their meds to help? I have another review in three months but it's good to speak to others if they have something similar.

Many thanks,
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What you're eating for breakfast has quite a lot of carbs. For me, anything that sent my blood glucose to 15mmol/l would be excluded immediately.

You don't say what your reading before eating was. That can be important in judging exactly what impact the food had - 15 from base 6, or 15 from base 12 might imply different things.

I almost never have anything to eat in the mornings these days, just coffee with cream, because I'm usually not hungry. I'll normally eat first around 1 or 2pm. If I do have something in the morning, which is maybe once a month, it's eggs, bacon, 95% meat sausages, mushrooms, tomato, that sort of thing.
 
Sable_Wolf said:
Hi all

I'm T2 on Metformin and for quite some time now within an hour of having a small breakfast (shreddies or cornflakes with little milk) my glucose levels shoot up to around 15mmol/ml, They do come back down but I feel it's keeping my HbA1c reading a tad high. Has anyone had something similar and then had to change their meds to help? I have another review in three months but it's good to speak to others if they have something similar.

Many thanks,
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Incidentally, it would help people reply to you if you filled in some of the detail on your condition - type of diabetes, medication if any, that sort of thing. You'll find that you can edit your details on your profile page.
 
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