No breakfast carbs and no insulin

[Robinredbreast]

Hi all. I decided to have a carb free breakfast this morning of 2 grilled rashers of bacon, 2 fried eggs and a grilled tomato. My BS on waking was 9.7, this I know is high, but for the next 3 months I am to stay between 6 and 12. When I tested for lunch, my BS was 16.1 :shock: so yes a bit shocked that a small non carb meal could put me up so much. On my ACCU-CHEK I did put in exercise, house cleaning and ironing, so probably my liver kicked in with glucose :?: :!: . I really didn't want to see 16.1 on my meter, I will show the hospital my BS diary on Friday and ask them the same question WHY :? oh dear...............

 

[Elc1112]

Hiya,

I am not big on breakfast so very rarely have any. Even without breakfast, I find I still need a small injection to keep my sugars down. Sounds like, even though you had a low carb meal, you still needed something. I know exercise can encourage your levels to rise, but I would be incredibly surprised if doubtlessly housework had this effect - a five mile run or long bike ride, perhaps.

 

[Paul1976]

Hi! The tomato would have contained some carbs even if not that many,eggs and bacon raise my blood sugar too but no where near the amount toast or cereal would,I've only been on Insulin 3 days myself so it's a really steep learning curve all over again for me as low carbing helped loads but not enough to avoid insulin altogether but luckily some experienced type 1's have given me some good info on the things that have been confusing me so far.Hopefully someone else will be along soon to give you the 'Science bit' to why your levels still hit 16.1 after a low carb meal but I believe it's to do with proteins being converted by your body into glucose.

Paul

P.s I hope you and your daughter are doing OK after the sad loss of your baby chicks!

 

[Robinredbreast]

Hi! The tomato would have contained some carbs even if not that many,eggs and bacon raise my blood sugar too but no where near the amount toast or cereal would,I've only been on Insulin 3 days myself so it's a really steep learning curve all over again for me as low carbing helped loads but not enough to avoid insulin altogether but luckily some experienced type 1's have given me some good info on the things that have been confusing me so far.Hopefully someone else will be along soon to give you the 'Science bit' to why your levels still hit 16.1 after a low carb meal but I believe it's to do with proteins being converted by your body into glucose.

Paul

P.s I hope you and your daughter are doing OK after the sad loss of your baby chicks!

Thank you very much for your reply. I have been given this new ACCU -CHEK meter, already programmed by DSN at the hospital and I'm to follow it precisely. So no carbs plus being busy at home = no insulin, so thats what I did. If I do what I think I should do or tell fibs then the readings will be untrue, so I decided I wont be doing that again. If I was doing it on my own with no ongoing help and advice from DSN, I probably would of injected 1/2 or 1 unit, to cover it, but it's a lesson learned :eh:

Thanks for asking about the baby Robins, it was sad especially for my daughter, as her daddy died a 6 weeks ago and is niw getting some breavement counselling from school. She has been given a book to write and stick things in and has decorated it with 3 Robin pictures, with the baby Robin names of Rio, Rubee and Robyn and her favourite bird a Penquin. She also printed off a page for me with 3 Robins on it

 

[noblehead]

I would still need to inject QA insulin to cover that breakfast as do most low-carb type 1's.

 

[jopar]

It may have almost zero carbs (small bit in the tomato, approx 3g's if medium size) but even I would have to inject some insulin as it's high protein, but I would have to use the insulin on an extended bolus on the pump, otherwise it be too much and send me into a hypo before the protein had a chance to break down into glucose and start impacting on my BG..

Housework wise, Ironing and hovering drops my bg's quite quickly... Hubby has the same with ironing it dumps his levels!

Another thing I found with decorating..

Wallpapering, which in my mind is more active/heaving going doesn't have much of an impact on my levels, but painting the woodwork which I consider to be a lot easier and lighter work, actually dumps my BG's

 

[Robinredbreast]

It may have almost zero carbs (small bit in the tomato, approx 3g's if medium size) but even I would have to inject some insulin as it's high protein, but I would have to use the insulin on an extended bolus on the pump, otherwise it be too much and send me into a hypo before the protein had a chance to break down into glucose and start impacting on my BG..

Housework wise, Ironing and hovering drops my bg's quite quickly... Hubby has the same with ironing it dumps his levels!

Another thing I found with decorating..

Wallpapering, which in my mind is more active/heaving going doesn't have much of an impact on my levels, but painting the woodwork which I consider to be a lot easier and lighter work, actually dumps my BG's

Gardening is another form of exercise and that can drop me even though I dont have a huge garden and definately decorating roblem:

 

[smidge]

Hi Robinredbreast!

I would have injected 1 unit Apidra to cover that meal and another unit to bring those high fasting levels down - so I would have gone for two units in your situation this morning. Having said that, vacuuming the house brings my BG down (bizarre but true!), so if I was about to vacuum, I might have gone for 1.5 units Apidra rather than the two. It's all a bit trial and error I'm afraid.

Take care

Smidge