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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TorqPenderloin" data-source="post: 1296527" data-attributes="member: 211504">Maybe I’m interpreting the story incorrectly, but the situation reads a bit different for me:-You mentioned taking a correction dose (insulin) before eating. That presents the possibility of overcorrecting.-You corrected (glucose) at 2.5hrs after a reading of 6.3mmol with 27g of carbs. Did you give yourself insulin at this point or was that strictly a correction? If I ate 27g of carbs I’d just 10 mmol/l too.-You mentioned that you still had insulin on board, but that doesn’t necessarily mean anything to me. With a meal like chicken curry you have a variety of possible foods that affect your blood sugar differently: rice which often causes a short but volatile spike, chicken which is high in protein with some fat that can cause a delayed (but very minor) spike, and other foods like potatoes, carrots, and onions (the former being much more to consider than the latter).I guess what I’m suggesting is the possibility that the rice wasn’t the issue. It was a combination of overcorrections with both insulin and glucose to create this rollercoaster experience.For me, the good thing about high GI foods like rice are that they spike me very quickly, but my levels return to normal shortly after. That can be a little scary and tempt you to correct, but that’s literally the nature of a high GI food versus a low GI food: one spikes you quickly and returns to normal while the other causes a very gradual spike. I'm fortunate to be on a Dexcom CGM so I can monitor this spike, but I realize that's not always an option for others.</blockquote>

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