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02-12-2004, 05:20 PM
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| | | Pasta?
How does pasta effect your bg's?
It seems like when I have pasta now, One hour or so later my bg goes low.
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02-12-2004, 05:20 PM
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| | | Tony, are you bolusing more for pasta than for other foods? |
02-12-2004, 05:30 PM
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| | | pasta always seems quite good to my blood sugar! never fills me up tho! i dont go low after having it tho, but then my blood sugar is always wayy too high to start with! |
02-12-2004, 05:52 PM
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| | Quote: Originally posted by statdeac
Tony, are you bolusing more for pasta than for other foods? | Same amount of bolus for any food i eat. 25/1 is my carb ratio.
I haven't had trouble with pasta before. What is strange is that at dinner if I eat anything else my bg goes up.
You did give me an idea. That is to have pasta for lunch and see what happens.
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02-12-2004, 08:48 PM
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| | | Seems to shoot my sugars thru the roof these days - don't eat it much anymore.
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02-13-2004, 02:28 AM
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| | Quote: Originally posted by Teresa
pasta always seems quite good to my blood sugar! never fills me up tho! i dont go low after having it tho, but then my blood sugar is always wayy too high to start with! | Teresa, have you tried adding veggies to your pasta? It often fills me up. Often I'll experiment with mushrooms, peppers, sometimes carrot sticks. |
02-13-2004, 04:52 AM
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| | ... pasta with a meat sauce (and cheese) always brings BG up for me. Pasta with olive oil and veggies is a little better but BG goes up nonetheless. I simply try to have it around noon instead. Or if I have it for dinner, I have half a serving and a huge green salad with a dash of fresh lemon juice. Rice is even worse! I guess we're all different?
Love pasta. Could cry...
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02-13-2004, 08:00 AM
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| | We almost always have meat in the suace and then top it with parmesian(sp?) cheese.
I don't have trouble with B/G readings.
If you're talking about Mac and Cheese, that's a different story.
Hoo boy, that stuff sends me through the roof.
Unfortunate, because I really like it. However, when I add tuna or hamburger or chicken to the Mac & Cheese, B/G seems to behave itself. 
Protein slowing down Carb absorbtion?
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02-13-2004, 08:24 AM
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| | Quote: Originally posted by Gary
Teresa, have you tried adding veggies to your pasta? It often fills me up. Often I'll experiment with mushrooms, peppers, sometimes carrot sticks. | that sounds like a good idea, thanks! im hungry now after readin about all that pasta! LOL... good job its nearly meal time! |
02-13-2004, 08:28 AM
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Teresa
that sounds like a good idea, thanks! im hungry now after readin about all that pasta! LOL... good job its nearly meal time!
| NO fair, lunch is still two hours away:p
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02-13-2004, 01:58 PM
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| | | Re: Pasta?
Quote: Originally posted by Tony
How does pasta effect your bg's?
It seems like when I have pasta now, One hour or so later my bg goes low. |
I have the same problem that about 1 hour after I eat it I start going low. Solved my problem by doing a dual bolus so that when the carbs finally hit about 2 hrs later the insulin is still in the slooooowwwww drip mode and this works for me. It took me a while to figure that one out
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02-13-2004, 02:43 PM
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| | | Belinda, I do the exact same thing. For some reason pasta and bagels come back to bite you in the butt later. I do a dual wave bolus now and it has helped a lot. I can even eat a bagel once in awhile. I usually take about 3 units of insulin right away and then over the next two hours I spread out another 3 units. I will end up in range after two hours.
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02-13-2004, 04:27 PM
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| | Quote: Originally posted by notme
Belinda, I do the exact same thing. For some reason pasta and bagels come back to bite you in the butt later.
Nancy | The same thing happen with me on the bagels this morning.
Two hours later I went low. But that was rare. I go low two hours later with pasta. I was thinking of changing my carb ratio for pasta. But maybe I will try the dual bolus first.
Ok Ladies, if you was to be on a 25/1 ratio and eat 126 carbs of pasta. How would you dual bolus for that?
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02-13-2004, 04:31 PM
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| | Quote: Originally posted by Tony
Ok Ladies, if you was to be on a 25/1 ratio and eat 126 carbs of pasta. How would you dual bolus for that? |
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02-13-2004, 04:36 PM
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| | | oops Sorry about that.
I had to practice with the foods.
For example. One Lenders bagel with PNB in the morning is 3 units of a basal and that is only if I don't add other things. I have decided it is just a guess at what my ratio is for foods like pasta/bagel/pizza and I did what was required but then I was running high so I began experimenting each time I ate that food.
Good Luck. |
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