Food/BG changes

[AlisonM]

I've recently discovered that foods such as white rice and pasta which used to send my BGs through the roof, don't have quite the same drastic effects now. I'm not going mad and eating heaps of them though. White bread and spuds are still the food of the devil.

Anyone have a theory why this should be?

 

[novorapidboi26]

Probably just your ever changing responses to carbs and insulin, no day is ever the same with Diabetes...........😉

 

[Northerner]

Possibly because your overall control has improved you are better able to tolerate such foods than you were when you were on all the wrong meds and really confusing the pancreatic function you still have. I may still have some beta cell function left, but not very much, and the consultant thinks this is what helps me keep good levels by smoothing the peaks that someone with no 'native' insulin would get. You've clearly got much more beta cell function than me, since you don't have to inject, so perhaps it is this that is helping you. Just a theory! 🙂

 

[AlisonM]

Possibly because your overall control has improved you are better able to tolerate such foods than you were when you were on all the wrong meds and really confusing the pancreatic function you still have. I may still have some beta cell function left, but not very much, and the consultant thinks this is what helps me keep good levels by smoothing the peaks that someone with no 'native' insulin would get. You've clearly got much more beta cell function than me, since you don't have to inject, so perhaps it is this that is helping you. Just a theory! 🙂

Makes sense to me. I just have to remember not to get complacent and assume that what was good last month will be the same this month. 🙄

I begin to think I've been lucky getting my Dx changed so quickly, they pay far more attention to what's going on with me than they did when I was apparently Y2. As soon as I mention some change they're on to it right away. I get the idea I'm far more closely monitored than most.