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ruford

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Location
canada
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Insulin
why does 1 cup of tea with 2 sweeteners
and a little bit of whole evaporated milk
cause such a large rise?
it went from 4.5 to 6.2
in about 30 minutes
thinking i may need a bit of rapid
with it
or could this cause a hypo?
sometimes it goes over 7
 
2 sweeteners. What time of day?? Could be worse in the morning when we are most insulin resistant but two sweeteners would do it to me any time of day
 
ruford said:
in the morning when i get up
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How much evaporated milk did you have?

It sounds like it might just be a normal waking rise. What happens to your sugars afterwards over the next hour or two?
 
ruford said:
it went from 4.5 to 6.2
in about 30 minutes
thinking i may need a bit of rapid
with it
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As a suggestion, tomorrow morning omit the cup of tea and see if you get a similar bg rise, it may just be a natural response (a waking rise) as Azure has mentioned already.
 
Bearing in mind that your meter can operate within a tolerance of + or - 20% a rise of 1.7 mmol/L over two readings is par for the course especially given a small time lapse, for example a true reading of 5 mmol/L could read anywhere from as little as 4 mmol/L to as much as 6 mmol/L.

Then take into account the fact that your levels may have been rising anyway, or rising due to your activity over that half an hour between tests could have pushed your bg level up too. Even stressing about your levels could easily have raised them by that much and testing before and after a cup of tea does seem to me to be just a little excessive.

I wouldnt have thought that 2 x sweeteners and a dash of evap milk would move my levels much at all and I certainly wouldnt waste 2 test strips to find out.
 
I've mentioned this before but a cup of tea with milk in it raises my BGs. I used to work nights so I was very strict about regular testing and, at the beginning, I couldn't understand why my BG was waving up and down all night - not just after I'd eaten - it turned out to be the milk in the tea and I was having a pint mug of tea every hour. So I changed to Tetley redbush vanilla tea without milk and my BG became more predictable with the expected rises after meals but not the constant rises and dips I'd had previously. I now don't work but I haven't gone back to having drinks with milk in.
 
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