Sally71
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Parent of person with diabetes
We are loving having the Libre, but sometimes it reveals some absolutely shocking information!
My daughter has just discovered bagels. They sometimes have them at Breakfast Club at school, and I always wondered what all the fuss was about what is essentially a bun with a hole in it. Having tried them however they are rather tasty! And now my daughter has decided she likes them. They are rather a lot of carbs but as she's on insulin we can cope, thought I... Then I looked at the Libre trace and nearly died - after one of those her blood sugars skyrocket to at least the high teens faster than anything else we've yet come across! 😱😱 No other bread has that drastic an effect, Rice Krispies were the only other thing so far that came close (haven't bought them since!).
Her blood sugar does come down again but I don't think spikes that huge are very good so I think bagels will be off the menu unless we can do some serious experimentation with bolus timing, to see if we can reduce the spike by waiting until the insulin has got going before she eats the bagel. I did suggest buying wholemeal ones to see if they cause less of a spike, but daughter said she would refuse to eat them!
So I guess that's another point in favour of the Libre, I expect daughter's blood sugar to go up a bit after she's eaten but not that much, and I'd have been none the wiser without the Libre!
My daughter has just discovered bagels. They sometimes have them at Breakfast Club at school, and I always wondered what all the fuss was about what is essentially a bun with a hole in it. Having tried them however they are rather tasty! And now my daughter has decided she likes them. They are rather a lot of carbs but as she's on insulin we can cope, thought I... Then I looked at the Libre trace and nearly died - after one of those her blood sugars skyrocket to at least the high teens faster than anything else we've yet come across! 😱😱 No other bread has that drastic an effect, Rice Krispies were the only other thing so far that came close (haven't bought them since!).
Her blood sugar does come down again but I don't think spikes that huge are very good so I think bagels will be off the menu unless we can do some serious experimentation with bolus timing, to see if we can reduce the spike by waiting until the insulin has got going before she eats the bagel. I did suggest buying wholemeal ones to see if they cause less of a spike, but daughter said she would refuse to eat them!
So I guess that's another point in favour of the Libre, I expect daughter's blood sugar to go up a bit after she's eaten but not that much, and I'd have been none the wiser without the Libre!
I suppose it's easier with a pump. Can't eat ANY white bread either...pure rocket fuel. M&S have wholemeal bagels - would they be slower to digest? I lived in Melbourne years ago, in the Jewish area, and there was a Jewish bakery just down the road. They sold boiled bagels...OMG...I think I put on about a stone in the 5 months I was living there. YUM!
