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| | From:  dedonn (Original Message) | Sent: 11/11/2005 8:11 PM |
Can anyone out there explain why this happened? One of my fellow workers brought in some candy that her daughter had received on halloween and she sort of took without the little girl knowing, in order to try and save her teeth. Well there was a whole bag of candy sitting at my coworkers desk all week long and I didn't eat any, till today. However I ate a piece of candy that had 19grams of Carbs in it. I took enough medicine to cover the 19 grams and a 1 unit extra bolus. I started to feel a little grumpy and I have a head ache so I checked and guess what, my sugar is 301. If I took enough medicine to cover what I ate, per the label on the candy, why then did my sugar climb to 301? I of course took some more insulin to bring it back down and I just know that in 3 hours, I will have a sugar of probably like 40. I don't splurge on candy that often, but today I just couldn't resist and when I saw the carb content on it, I was like, well heck, it has only 19 grams of carbs. Is there something in candy that makes you need more medicine to cover it ? I know I shouldn't have eaten it, but I figured, hell I see the carb content, I eas expecting my dinner sugar test to be a little high, like 160, but I never thought my sugar would be that affected by a piece of candy. Stupid Laffy Taffy! It wasn't even worth it. Dee  |
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| | | From: Bar | Sent: 11/11/2005 8:56 PM |
Wonder if I can get my endo to prescribe Snickers for my lows? Bar |
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Not to get this too confusing but did the label say "x" amount of gramms but the package say for "y" amunt for the serving size.Example the label says 360 g in the package but the label says for a serving of 200 g or another amount.I find the serving amount and the packaged amount seldom match,so you need to do some confusing math.To see what I mean just look at anything with a label on it......the "suggested serving size" part.Labels are very misleading. |
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| | | From: dedonn | Sent: 11/14/2005 1:33 PM |
Thank you all for listening to me vent. I did bottom out at 5:45 pm, with a sugar of 31. Isn't it funny how we just want to fix it asap, I knew I was going to bottom out, but still took the extra. Something about me being a perfectionist. Cyclops, it was 19 grams in the whole piece. But I know what you mean about misreading labels. Bar, when I am low at home, I will eat an oreo. Sometimes I am happy for a low so I can eat an oreo. hee hee hee Sheryl, I think you are right, about the candy causing the fast increase, and then being gone. Thank you all for letting me vent. Hope you are all well. Sincerely, Dee |
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Sorry Dee you crashed like that,but I know how frustrating it is.I am aslo glad you understand my thing with labels.......how I use to get caught on those until I got a little wiser and figured out how to really read them.Take care |
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Hi Dee : I know how that goes. Im on a pump. for every 15 gms of carbs that I eat, I bolus 1 unit of insulin. I love Dunkin Donut's bagels. According to a carb counting sheet that I got from the ADA., one bagel has 30gms of carbs. I ate one bagel at DD (with cream cheese...of course) and I bolused 5 units. My bg was 60 before I ate. One and a half hours later, my bg was 330 ! The next day when I went to DD for my morning coffee, I skipped the bagel but asked for a nutrition sheet on their products. They gave me one and I almost fell over...One Dunkin Donuts bagel was listed at 80gms of carbs (without cream cheese) Ouch ! Now I know. Sometimes, the labels are deceiving. Be Well, Diane  |
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Labels are wonderful things, when they write them in plain english- lol. I don't know if you have these choc bars in your area but here in Canada, Cadbury chocolates makes a bar called "THINS", it comes in milk, dark and milk choc with toffee bits. And the best part is the whole BAR has only 11 g of carbs in it! That's right only 11g!!! It's just the right size when you need a little sugar buzz but don't want to get a major rush. If you have any probs finding it, let me know and I'll see if I can find it for you locally. Gracie |
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| | | From: sg_53 | Sent: 2/22/2006 2:07 AM |
I was in the drugstore one day looking for sugarfree candies and one of the ladies that work there and is diabetic asked me if I'd tried Russel Stover no sugar added goodies. She gave me one to try and it was really good. I allow myself a peppermint pattie or chocolate wafer as dessert after supper. Reese also has no sugar added little peanut butter cups..very good too. Werthers even has a no sugar added butterscotch candy. The only thing is that you have to make sure you don't get carried away with this stuff cause it can have a diahrea effect. I've never run into this but it is on the package. I can actually look at chocolate bars and think to myself it's okay cause I can have a candy or chocolate of my own. Sally |
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Oh please please be careful with the whole "no added sugar" and "sugar free" chocolates. While they may have less sugar, they usually have more calories and more fat content. I was told that unless I just "wanted" to eat sugar free chocolate, that if I had a chocolate craving, it was ok to eat a small portion of the "real" stuff. The bite sized candy bars are actually my favorites. Enough chocolate to satisfy the urge without the big jump in numbers. :) ~Marie |
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| | | From: sg_53 | Sent: 2/22/2006 3:56 AM |
Thanks for the advice Marie...I am very careful with my intake. I guess I'm scared to actually have real chocolate. The one thing I did learn recently is that no sugar added cookies are very deceiving. I was having some with my evening snack figuring everything was okay...in the morning my readings were in the 4's. Thought I had it made. The other night my hubby told me I should take a two hour after reading after my snack...13.5, could've knocked me over with a feather...thought my monitor had to be wrong. Tested the next night same thing. I had increased my snack because I was scared of going too low at night. Now I've cut it back and tonight the reading was 6.1. Still kinda nervous about going low overnight though. Sally |
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| | | From: sarahQ | Sent: 11/27/2006 8:18 AM |
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| | | That is why I went to using a gram scale to figure out my carbs. I use carb factoring to be more exact. Believe me, it is worth it. For example a certain fast food drive-in says their fruit salad (snack size) is 31 grams of carbs but when I weigh the pieces and figure out the carb counts it never totals more than 17 grams of carbs. I am sure the reverse can be true too. You may think you are only eating 19 grams of carbs but really were eating 40 grams of carbs. I think this is a common mistake made by the food industry so it does pay to weigh. I learned about carb factors through the American Diabetes Association and through A gram scale is a really handy device to have. | |
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