Caffene Raising Sugar level
Hello Guy,
This is the very first I’ve ever heard of that even being a possibility?!?! Even straight caffeine (if you could find some somehow) would simply be a stimulant, heart rasing, adrenal response… but it should not be a signifigant amount of “rise”… any chance you’re getting the bounce from another source triggered in the same general time frame?
Dawn effect? A bounce from a “low” earlier ? To me that kind of thing sounds a more likely source…. there’s no question an adrenal response (the fight-flight syndrome) does raise sugar levels but… if coffee were a common source of this kind of problem… wouldn’t that be on most ~white coat folks~ serious “no” list of foods…. ?
Jeff
July 2nd, 2004 at 3:04 pm
“…skipping lunch has enabled me to skip an injection…… not that it matters
much but I really don’t need to eat 3 meals a day. If this is a bad idea, your
input would be most appreciated.”
Brian–It’s really frowned upon by our doctors–it gets mine madder than hell at
me, but I do it all the time. Skipping lunch and my lunchtime bolus tends to
keep my sugars more even all day. That only makes sense–You remove 2
variables, the food and the shot to cover it. If either one is even slightly
off, too
much or too little, you’ll either go up or down for several hours afterwards.
If
you are okay at lunchime, and require neither a correction bolus for a high or
a snack for a low, skipping lunch is not harmful and can be quite stabilizing.
Good for weight maintainence as well… This all depends, of course, upon
what kinds of insulin you take. On Lantus, there is no “peak” period to need to
cover, which for years on NPH rewquired that I eat lunch–ON TIME–or risk
going hypo. If I’m not hungry, or too busy (usually 4-5 days of the week), I
skip
lunch.
Michael
T1 since 1965