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ColinUK
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Hi Dave.
Nobody’s going to tell you that you’re allowed one thing and that something else is forbidden. Only you know how your body reacts to sugar and to things like the sweetener in diet drinks.
Do you test?
Guessing you’re type two maybe?
Can you tell us anything about your diagnosis and what brings you to this sunny corner of the Internet?
Nobody’s going to tell you that you’re allowed one thing and that something else is forbidden. Only you know how your body reacts to sugar and to things like the sweetener in diet drinks.
Do you test?
Guessing you’re type two maybe?
Can you tell us anything about your diagnosis and what brings you to this sunny corner of the Internet?
Bruce Stephens
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Almost surely, yes. (Sugar levels can change for lots of reasons, and it's not impossible that drinking Pepsi Max will cause your sugar levels to change in some significant way. I think it's not that likely, though.)
trophywench
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Well you wouldn't have thought so, would you?
I am perfectly fine drinking diet this that or the other and have been ever since they first brought them out. However - Pepsi Max shoots my BG up into the stratosphere!
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Welcome to the forum @Dwebby
Most of us can drink pretty much any sugar-free / low calorie drinks without worrying about them - but diabetes can be frustratingly fickle as you can see!
I think getting any BG rise from Pepsi Max would be very unlikely though. I've certainly had it without and BG wobbles 🙂
Most of us can drink pretty much any sugar-free / low calorie drinks without worrying about them - but diabetes can be frustratingly fickle as you can see!
I think getting any BG rise from Pepsi Max would be very unlikely though. I've certainly had it without and BG wobbles 🙂
trophywench
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Goodness only knows why it has that effect on me. I had stopped drinking it so when husband #1 and I were Ansell's Mystery Customers I stuck to a G&T and made him drive between the pubs! Don't even like cola all that much anyway TBH.
Then some years later we were invited to Pete's eldest daughter's house and the only slimline she'd got was she said Diet Coke so I drank some and wham, which miffed me somewhat as I'd fully intended to have some trifle and I was mega puzzled - til I found out it was ruddy Pepsi Max, not Coke at all. Have avoided it like the plague ever since. Rather have a glass of tap water if that's all that's on offer otherwise when I want a cold drink.
Then some years later we were invited to Pete's eldest daughter's house and the only slimline she'd got was she said Diet Coke so I drank some and wham, which miffed me somewhat as I'd fully intended to have some trifle and I was mega puzzled - til I found out it was ruddy Pepsi Max, not Coke at all. Have avoided it like the plague ever since. Rather have a glass of tap water if that's all that's on offer otherwise when I want a cold drink.
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