Hi carer for someone recently diagnosed with type 1 following cancer treatment.

[MKT]

Ideas on evening snack to bring BS up to 8 before bed. Thanks

 

[Inka]

A digestive biscuit (plain) or two? 10g carbs each. Oatcakes and peanut butter? Approx 5g per oatcake. A small bowl of Puffed Wheat and milk - something like 15g depending on weight.

 

[MKT]

Thank you.

 

[trophywench]

Depends how low the BG is as to how much carb will be needed to bring it back up and what the person's carb tolerance is - for instance if I eat 10g carb, it increased my BG by 3.0 ish - so if I was at 5.0 and wanted it to be 8.0 I'd eat 10g as suggested. But we're not all the same.

 

[MKT]

Depends how low the BG is as to how much carb will be needed to bring it back up and what the person's carb tolerance is - for instance if I eat 10g carb, it increased my BG by 3.0 ish - so if I was at 5.0 and wanted it to be 8.0 I'd eat 10g as suggested. But we're not all the same.

Thank you. Calling the diabetes brittle. Sometimes 10g carbs works sometimes not. Treatment/drug affecting BG.

 

[trophywench]

Oooh dear - not easy, all you can do is experiment and test test test. Have they got a CGM or Flash GM (the Abbott Freestyle Libre) as well as an ordinary BG meter?

 

[MKT]

Oooh dear - not easy, all you can do is experiment and test test test. Have they got a CGM or Flash GM (the Abbott Freestyle Libre) as well as an ordinary BG meter?

Yes libre, probably because it is brittle. Also ordinary BG meter. All very new. Just a few months. Certainly right on experiment and test, test, test.

 

[trophywench]

... just it's easier to keep testing via the Libre rather than bodging multiple holes in the fingers, I was thinking!

 

[danielmg]

Agree with @Inka re oatcakes. Something that is slow-acting (low GI) seems to be preferable before bed (unless glucose is low at the time of testing and a quick correction is needed with a fast-acting snack).

Also agree with @trophywench on using Libre, especially for checking how glucose behaves during sleep, and being able to judge if the pre-bed snacks are giving the desired outcome.

 

[MKT]

Agree with @Inka re oatcakes. Something that is slow-acting (low GI) seems to be preferable before bed (unless glucose is low at the time of testing and a quick correction is needed with a fast-acting snack).

Also agree with @trophywench on using Libre, especially for checking how glucose behaves during sleep, and being able to judge if the pre-bed snacks are giving the desired outcome.

Thank you.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Sorry to hear about the cancer T1. Was it pancreatic cancer?

Sounds like it is causing quite a few extra challenges, which must be very difficult

Glad access to the Libre is helping.

 

[MKT]

Sorry to hear about the cancer T1. Was it pancreatic cancer?

Sounds like it is causing quite a few extra challenges, which must be very difficult

Glad access to the Libre is helping.

Side effect to treatment, does state it can raise blood sugar levels. T2 diet control for several years. A DKA first signal to a problem. Blood test confirmed now T1. Diagnosis re cancer and now T1. We'll get there!