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Doctor's Answer
by JDRF-Team-CDB, Nov 03, 2006 12:00AM
I'm not a medical professional, so take my words with a grain of salt (or caffeine), but there's no research suggesting a link. In fact, lots of recent research suggests that coffee drinkers have a reduced chance of getting type 2 diabetes (although my husband's family is full of type 2s, all of whom have been lifelong coffee drinkers, so there you go).
So the research doesn't show a link, but that doesn't mean your body can't react in a particular way. Every body is difference, and perhaps yours has an unusual reaction to coffee. Have you tried decaf and seen how your blood sugar does? Have you tried just straight black coffee, no cream or sugar? You might want to experiment a little, to see if it's the caffeine that''s the culprit, and if it is, you might want to give it up.
Good luck with the sleuthing.
So the research doesn't show a link, but that doesn't mean your body can't react in a particular way. Every body is difference, and perhaps yours has an unusual reaction to coffee. Have you tried decaf and seen how your blood sugar does? Have you tried just straight black coffee, no cream or sugar? You might want to experiment a little, to see if it's the caffeine that''s the culprit, and if it is, you might want to give it up.
Good luck with the sleuthing.
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One more note of advice -- you cannot COUNT on this happening, so a low is very possible if you count on it like you count on eating a muffin to raise glucose levels. It really depends on what else is going on in your life at that moment, whether adrenals are stimulated and for me, whether I am drinking coffee with food or not. I have made the mistake of thinking the caffeine-induced glucose rise would happen when slightly low, only to find that it didn't happen and I ended up feeling fairly crummy while guzzling juice.