Pasta?

[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.

[statdeac]

Tony, are you bolusing more for pasta than for other foods?

[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!

[Tony]

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.

[HeatherP]

Seems to shoot my sugars thru the roof these days - don't eat it much anymore.

[Gary]

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.

[mg_2204]

... 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...

Marie
:)

[rzrbks]

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.

:confused:

Protein slowing down Carb absorbtion?

[Teresa]

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!

[rzrbks]

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

[Belinda]

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:confused:

[notme]

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.

Nancy

[Tony]

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?

[Belinda]

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?

[Belinda]

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.

[Shalyndria]

OK girls excuse me for a blonde moment here but I'm trying to wrap my head around this one and it's just not happening...

You say you set a dual wave, although to me that implies an increase of bg over time that you're trying to cover or a peak after a period of normal bg's. By that logic shouldn't you either set a temp basal at a bit of a higher rate or else bolus less for the pasta?! Pasta generally has a medium GI which means it shouldn't cause much along the lines of peaks or troughs in your bg's. As for bagels, they are high GI's so they make bg's rise rapidly. Can I just say y'all are wierd?!?!
:confused:
Shy :D

[Belinda]

Shy-
For me if I bolus all my insulin when I eat the pasta then I am definately going to go low in an hour to an hour and half. I discussed this with my Dr. and he told me to experiment with the dual mode and see if I can figure out a way to fix my love for pasta consumption. This resulted in lots of test! LOL but it works for me. As we know this might not work for others....it must be the way I am wired ? LOL

[Shalyndria]

Alright I'm reading this wrong or something because Belinda I'm so confused lol!! You said first you dual cause you go low but then you said you experimented because you were running high?! Are you going low and then bouncing high if you don't dual is that it?

Can someone just shoot me now please put me out of my misery?!

Shy

[Belinda]

Sorry for the confusion let me see. If I ate 45 grams of carbs in pasta then I would take 3 units of insulin when I ate. In about an hour to an hour and half I would check my BG cause I felt bad. It would be around the 40 or 50 mark. So I experimented and waited to take the insulin 2 hours later but I was too high. Luckily I had a Dr. appointment and he helped me figure out that I need to take about 1/2 when I start and the other later in small increments thus the dual mode.

Sorry for the confusion

[Shalyndria]

LOL I have seen the light!! Yeah train of thought derailed many casualties...but I am with you now thank god lol!

Shy :rolleyes:

[Belinda]

Glad you are back on track...it is Friday the 13th!

[notme]

I usually give 2/3 of my bolus immediately and take the other 1/3 over two hours. Some foods require less some more. This might be a good starting point for you.

Nancy

[Jenny]

Spaghetti and other pasta don't seem to make my bg's go too high...it seems almost as though they run through my body fast and then I get low....

[Clint]

Pasta's and bread's are driving my sugars way up. I am staying away from them as much as I can... which is a pity because spagetti is one of my favorite meals...

In fact, I hate a hamburger the other day with meat, lettuce, and mustard and my BG went up over 200...

[Ella1]

Maybe you need to make some adjustments in your insulin dose. Do you know your carb:insulin ratio?