Can’t have breakfast
Hey everyone, I’m struggling to figure out my breakfast and would really appreciate some advice.
This morning I had one of those frustrating spikes that don’t really make sense to me. I started around 150 mg/dL, did a bolus of 2 units (my breakfast ratio is about 1:9), waited about 10 min, then ate 2 slices of whole grain bread with a small teaspoon of chocolate spread (didn’t count it very precisely).
About 30 minutes later I started rising pretty fast and eventually hit ~300 mg/dL.
What’s confusing me is that it didn’t seem like a huge amount of carbs, and I did pre-bolus (even if maybe not enough). But the spike was way bigger than expected.
Also, something similar has happened before: one time I accidentally took 5 units for basically no carbs (just a small piece of chocolate), still spiked to around 200 first, and then dropped later. So it feels like in the morning the insulin just “arrives late” compared to the glucose.
At this point I’m not sure what to adjust, should I be pre-bolusing much earlier in the morning? Like 20–30 minutes?
Mornings just feel way harder to manage compared to the rest of the day. Curious if anyone else deals with this and what worked for you.