Afternoon all,
Done my work for today so I'm going to be a very bad person and go try a variety of ciders. As no one has said if it's a good idea to bolus for it, don't know what to do really. Just drink and be damned I suppose.
Afternoon all,
Done my work for today so I'm going to be a very bad person and go try a variety of ciders. As no one has said if it's a good idea to bolus for it, don't know what to do really. Just drink and be damned I suppose.
That's nice, thanks for replying. I always drink dry!I think it'll depend on if it's a sweet or dry cider. One must surely have more carbs than the other. I don't drink at all (clashes like billy-oh with my epilepsy drugs) so I'm not going to be of any help at all, although if I could, I would
Brilliantly informative thanks @Scott-C I'm going to have fun, cider and some crisps and then cheese on toast. This must be heaven. Tell you later what happensHi, Sue, yep, I'd bolus for cider: Carbs & Cals puts dry at 15g per pint, sweet at 24g.
But....
Remember that while your liver normally seeps some glucose out to fuel bodily processes and your basal takes care of that, when you introduce alcohol, the liver prioritises metabolising the alcohol and stops releasing glucose.
But the basal is still there in the background lowering bg. In the absence of that slow glucose release from the liver, that can lead to pretty savage night drops.
I'll tend to bolus for the first few pints to pin a major spike, but then tail it off to an occasional 1 or 2u as the night goes on, with the aim of making sure I've no iob by bedtime, and as the alcohol will still have that inhibiting effect on the liver, I'll rake back basal by a few units and have some cheese on toast or oatcakes or biscuits before bed so there's some glucose coming in to replace the missing liver glucose.
As it's your first foray into cider since dx, I'd be cautious with it - maybe bolus a bit just to tame the spike but don't bolus at yr usual carb ratio, lower, and maybe fit in a packet of crisps mid-evening, and definitely some food before bed.
Good luck!
Between your highs and my lows we shold meet in the middle take care cumbs x
@smc4761 sorry to read about your bg problems. Regarding your weekend birdwatching stroll, have you tried setting a temporary basal to counteract the bg fall? I would try reducing your basal by half about an hour before you set out for the period of your stroll.
It looks to me (but I have no medical training) that you are over treating your hypos now you are on a pump.
This is how I understand it. When on mdi, the slow acting insulin assumes our basal needs are the same 24 hours a day. We know this is not true but it is a good approximation. Typically, we take enough slow acting insulin to keep bg stable overnight, when we are not active so basal insulin requirements are greatest. This means, during the day, we had a little too much basal insulin on board but we handle this with between meal snacks and slight underestimate of carbs (e.g. not counting veggies). If we hypo on mdi, we need to have fast acting sugars to deal with the current low BG and slow acting carbs to "mop up" the spare basal insulin.
With a pump, we match our basal to our needs at different times of the day to match our body's needs. Therefore, we should have no spare basal on board, we need to more accurately count carbs, we need to bolus for between meal snacks and we do not need the slow acting carbs after a hypo... so no longer an excuse for biccies.
I hope this makes sense and does not confuse things even more.
Good luck with the birdwatching. I got excited to see a Bullfinch in my garden this week. I think he may have knocked the Goldfinch off the top spot of best birds seen in my garden.
I live relatively close to a couple of farms that make and sell their own cider. My grandfather used to love scrumpy which was dry and, to be honest, horrible although I was only 9 when I had my first taste. Give me Thatchers Haze any day.That's nice, thanks for replying. I always drink dry!
you too xxKaren its a never ending battle
I’d be quite happy to get into single figures
All the best to you
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This may be obvious to others; it wasn't to me until I went on a training course for T1s all about managing exercise and T1
@WuTwo ....posted picture in my post....looks a bit of a fat cat must have been well fed....I have one cat with very similar markings called MollyHi @Molly56 - yep, weekend going so far. Car boot full of latest stuff to go to the charity shop, which leaves me clear to start filling boxes with more! I will get this house empty of all the stuff we neither need nor want sooner or later but what appalls me is how much sheer stuff we have accumulated. I've lived in this house since 1986 and really - I think I have ten boxes of gubbins for every year..
Mind you, I can see the wood for the trees now!
What was your project?
@WuTwo ....posted picture in my post....looks a bit of a fat cat must have been well fed....I have one cat with very similar markings called Mollybut she is a tiny cat who hasn’t really grown from being a kitten unlike her brother Buster who is twice her size..
...can sympathise with you on the accumulated stuff....I too need a good clear out....
Cross stitch....from pattern book ‘Cats of the World’ which Mum picked up from charity shop for me a few years back....also done black pantherThat's lovely - cross stitch or needlepoint? I'm doing Lesley Teare's Sunbonnet Sue series at the moment - that's the one I do in between projects while I choose out of the pattern stash.
@smc4761 I'm still on MDI and pumps are a bit of a mystery to me. Just wondering whether you have breakfast before your stroll, and if so, i assume you bolus for it? When I walk in the morning, if it's within an hour and a half, I reduce my bolus because that's when my insulin is working hardest, so bg comes down much faster with exercise. If I walk more than an hour and a half or so after bolusing, I stick to what I consider my normal ratio. This may be obvious to others; it wasn't to me until I went on a training course for T1s all about managing exercise and T1 (this was a pilot and depending on the results may be made available more widely). It may not be the answer; just thought I'd mention it in case...
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