Wow. What a varied response. Diabetes = Rules and logic > out the door.
Does tea have the same effect on you? I'm just curious, I'm a T2 and coffee does nothing to me except make me zippy.
Mike, all of the brands seem to have an unsweetened version (with about 2g carbs per 8 oz.), but it sounds like your grocery store doesn't stock them :( I don't know if you have access to Trader Joes or Whole Foods, but both of their store brands have an unsweetened version and are both cheaper than the name brands.
I get Blue Diamond Unsweetened. It comes in two places in my market, either the fridge with the regular milk or on a shelf. The fridge is about .60 cheaper for the 1/2 gallon. I've gotten it in both vanilla and "regular". (unsweetened).
If it's 7g per cup, mpfuchs, it's the one with sugar; the unsweetened is only 2.
I am a huge tea drinker, and yea, it behaves the same way as coffee for me. Boo!
Maybe your residual second-phase insulin response can take care of the caffeine bump? Reading all these comments.. I assumed most T1's got smacked by coffee, but I guess not.
If I'm going to sit down and just drink my coffee/tea, I bolus at my first sip. I haven't had a problem getting the insulin to match the caffeine peak.
However, if I'm also correcting a high at the same time, I don't bolus for the coffee because I've ended up tanking very fast from doing this.
I think part of it is DP for me, but not all. I work afternoons, so its normal for me to have some caffeine around 7p, and I find I still have to bolus for it. Guess YMMV.
I am same, no bolus for coffee except in the mornings 0.75u for 2 cups with Splenda.
Coffee is my addiction as well. I don't have to bolus when I drink coffee. I drink my coffee black though with nothing in it.
for one medioum cup of coffee i need about 1.3 units of novolog. for decaff i need .7.
doesnt matter if i drink it with cream or black or with or without splenda. i seem, though, to need insulin for any food or beverage i even look at. wierd, huh?
I don't know if there is a Trader Joes around you but their unsweetened coconut milk and almond milk only have 2 or 3 carbs per serving.
I need coffee when I get out of bed. I usually bolus 0.5 units for it.
This discussion explains a lot. I will have a morning bg rise and since I don't eat breakfast black coffee is all I've had. I think I will skip the coffee some morning (if I can manage) and see how the bg does. I'll do it on a weekend when a lethargic me doesn’t upset anyone except maybe the wife.
Skipping breakfast is not a good idea. Breakfast is the very thing that stops the dawn phenomenon in it's tracks. It's not the milk in the coffee that spikes you, it's the caffeine causing an adrenalin rush.
The best time to exercise is around breakfast. If you can manage, eat a protein only breakfast after exercising. You can often skip your meal bolus entirely. The best time to eat is at dinner time when your insulin sensitivity is it's highest. You can get by with a small bolus then. Midday? That's the meal of choice to omit.
I make my own almond milk- super easy, cheaper, and you can control the taste. Always an option if you can't find unsweetened!
No coffee bolus for me either. I've used the Trader Joes unsweetened coconut milk, Blue Diamond unsweetened Almond Milk and a few other nut milks. Occasionally I get lazy and just use the half-and-half my husband buys.
My only additional note for folks investigating alternative "milks" is that the Blue Diamond has been the only almond milk I've used that hasn't separated once added to my coffee. The others (unfortunately I can't remember the brands) have been great in other applications, but in coffee not so much :)
I'm fine without bolusing for black coffee. I see absolutely no bump in my BG from just plain coffee.
The same doesn't apply if I decide to add milk and sweetener, of course.
i don't bolus for coffee. i am irregular anyway, when it comes to bg.
i use 1 % milk when at home & no sweetener.
A full pot! That explains so much. :)