Today is one of those strange days that I’m having trouble keeping my blood sugars up. It’s not that I’m dangerously low, just that I keep trending downward.
I got up to an 82 and my after breakfast/before lunch sugar was only an 84. Usually, that’s my highest reading of the day. I don’t always eat before rehab but at 84 it seemed like a good idea so I had a piece of toast with cheese. Half an hour later, I was trending downward at 77. And I seemed to be staying there so was watching it carefully during exercise. Finally, I made it up to 111. Within half an hour, I was trending downward to 100 again and so I’ve had a snack with fresh tomato, a piece of cheese and a couple crackers. I even put some pepper jelly on the crackers so probably next time I check I’ll be at 200!
I’m thinking this is possibly a result of the lap-band. Chances are, the nice piece of toast sat in my pouch and didn’t make it to the stomach for up to an hour. I probably need to watch this a little more carefully and if I’m headed downward, I should eat something like yogurt that will move through a little more quickly.
Still learning.
Been thinking a bit about this post, here are my thoughts, I don’t know if they are of any real use for you or anyone though.
In some cases it might be possible and a good idea to move certain types of food to where their particular effects on blood glucose is desirable. And maybe the same can be said about some of the medicines too, for instance insulin probably is less needed if you are going to exercise, and you can check the blood glucose level after exercise to see if it needs a bit of adjustment, I think type1s need to consider this more than type2s though, I know of some that lower their insulin pump injections before exercise passes, or other physically demanding activities.
Then there is also the observation of those on low carb diets, that they don’t feel low at levels that most people, or even themselves prior to switching to the diet, would have felt low on and that is because their bodies have adapted to release sufficient stored glucose or to produce it through glucogenesis for the bodies needs and runs everything else on fats and ketones. Though reaching that function takes a couple of months for most people, as in western diets those bodily functions are rarely if ever used.
By: TheDarkWraith on April 6, 2009
at 12:26 am
I was having some nice, lower readings before the CT scan. Because of the contrast I had to give up my Glumetza (glucophage) for a few days until I got kidney functions tests showing no damage. Now I’ve got to start all over lowering the readings. I didn’t realize the Glumetza made that much difference, but my BG kept creeping up a little more each day without it. Now I’m back on it I hope it only takes a couple days to get it back down again.
By: Eve on April 6, 2009
at 3:55 pm