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MeganN

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Is it normal that a cup of tea would take me from 7.0 to 9.6 two hours later?

I injected my basal before the tea and the first blood reading was as I was making it.

Don't understand my sugars at all. Apparently a cup of tea should be ok?
 
Do you have anything in your tea? I'm not sure if milk will make a difference or not.
 
Tea doesn't make any discernible difference to my levels - the amount of sugar (lactose) is pretty small per cup/mug. Why not try a cup of black coffee or herbal tea instead and see what happens?
 
I don't like coffee or flavoured tea.

I e even started having my tea a lot stronger with less milk than I used to and it's not helped.
Can't believe I might actually have to bolus for cups of tea :(
 
MeganN said:
I don't like coffee or flavoured tea.

I e even started having my tea a lot stronger with less milk than I used to and it's not helped.
Can't believe I might actually have to bolus for cups of tea :(
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When was this? In the morning?
 
I was going to suggest hot chocolate or horlicks, but even they are frought with carbs...
 
Maybe it's the caffeine? It affects some people more than others, and making the tea stronger means there's more caffeine in it. I may be talking rubbish, but it could be worth trying the gnat's wee end of the spectrum to see what it does.
 
MeganN said:
Is it normal that a cup of tea would take me from 7.0 to 9.6 two hours later?

I injected my basal before the tea and the first blood reading was as I was making it.

Don't understand my sugars at all. Apparently a cup of tea should be ok?
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I suspect it was nothing to do with the tea - it was that D favourite *something else* (previous food... basal shortfall... liver action... stress... phase of the moon... blah blah blah...).

You just happened to be having a cup of tea at the time.
 
Tea doesn't seem to bother me, though coffee does. It's just as well because I get through quite a bit of it during the day, I fill my flask fresh each morning and just keep filling the cup from time to time. I do take milk in mine but no sugar or sweeteners and sometimes ring the changes with lemon instead of milk.
 
I've noticed that tea increases my levels; I only have milk but it does rise...
 
I'm interested you said that you'd had a basal before it.... Basal takes an hour or two to start working. Was it due....? Because it doesn't always last the full 12 or 24 hours and your levels start to rise at the end of the period....

The tea could be a complete red herring?
 
It was time for my basal anyway. I should still have also had about 2-3 hrs if bolus still circulating too.

It does this every night when I have my last cup of tea making my bedtime and morning readings higher than I would like.
Mabe I should give decaf tea a try?
 
Megan - why not have water for the next few nights and test to the same schedule.

If your BGs don't rise whenever you have water, but do rise when you have tea that might give you an indication - but you still have a *lot* of other factors going on at that point. Just because you are in the habit of doing something at that time (having a cup of tea) it doesn't necessarily follow that your action causes the effect you see. Your BG might be doing that anyway.

Do you tend to notice that kind of rise with *every* cup of tea? Which makes me wonder... If not, why not? 🙂
 
Good point.

No, tea doesn't do this at other times of day only this last one.
I'll give it a miss for a few days and see what happens
 
....and that basal is due at that time every night....?

Weren't you considering splitting your basal a little while ago? Did you do it in the end?
 
Im the same. tea even with a little bit of milk affects my levels. Sometimes I take 1 unit (when my levels are 7-8 before drinking it)
 
Yes lizzie I was thinking about splitting it but changed my mind after the results of my basal test.

I think a 1u dose for tea in the evenings might be the answer
 
MeganN said:
Yes lizzie I was thinking about splitting it but changed my mind after the results of my basal test.

I think a 1u dose for tea in the evenings might be the answer
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I still find it very odd that tea at any other time of day seems to have no effect, which makes me suspect it is getting the 'blame' just because it is something you are consuming at that time, which naturally makes you suspicious of it.

An extra 1u 'for tea' would only work in my head if you didn't need the 1u when you didn't have the tea (or needed it earlier/later if you had the tea earlier/later) 🙂
 
I am testing the no tea at all theory but unfortunately I have caught a cold :( and now nothin is behaving
 
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