So annoyed with myself

[bakebeans]

Each week we have a couple of bottles of fizzy drinks in the weekly shopping. This week I noticed sugar free tango was on offer so ordered a couple. We drank bottle one earlier in the week and tonight while drinking bottle 2 with dinner one of the kids pointed out that it wasn’t sugar free! I’m so annoyed with myself for not checking and not even noticing when I was drinking it. Just checked my bg and it’s 7.8 mid way though eating which is the highest numbers I’ve seen in weeks

 

[Ljc]

it is easily done so don’t berate yourself ok . Over the years since my diagnosis I have made many a mistake and quite a few that were not mistakes eg eating things that were most unsuitable.

It’s likely you’ll be peeing for England soon and drinking extra water will help flush the glucose out.

 

[bakebeans]

Thanks for the reply. It didn’t quite have the effect I thought it would 2 hours after eating my bg was 5.4. My next HbA1c is due in the next few weeks and it probably will have raised a little from 38 with Christmas so silly mistakes like this aren’t needed, it’s taught me to double check again

 

[SueEK]

We’ve all done it. I ordered barcardi and coke, had about 4 and forgot to say Diet Coke, haven’t forgotten since!! 😉

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

I think the people who design the packaging really need to bear in mind how important this difference is when deciding what the packs should look like. It is a significant piece of information, with potentially extremely serious implications, but sometimes is given an almost ‘small print’ treatment 🙄

I almost bought sugar free version of Lucozade as a hypo treatment once, because the swirly vertical ‘Zero’ labelling was receding into the background swirly colours. 😱

 

[Browser]

Thanks for the reply. It didn’t quite have the effect I thought it would 2 hours after eating my bg was 5.4. My next HbA1c is due in the next few weeks and it probably will have raised a little from 38 with Christmas so silly mistakes like this aren’t needed, it’s taught me to double check again

Would a one off deviation like this actually affect you HbA1c? I would be very surprised if it had any tangible effect at all.

 

[bakebeans]

Would a one off deviation like this actually affect you HbA1c? I would be very surprised if it had any tangible effect at all.

A one off mistake probably wouldn’t but I’ve increased my carbs a bit since August so expect a raise anyway. We will see