I hope you find a good balance between everything

The crashing feeling is I think what athletes call the wall, one hits that before insulin drops enough to allow glucagon to be released, it takes time to adapt the body to transit that point without being totally wiped out by it.

It would seem you are at least stepping toward the right preparation place and hopefully your body will adapt to 60ies too, and hopefully lower its standard insulin level so that it can release the glucagon faster when needed.

As for too much glucagon, only those that have insufficient insulin production and sensitivity can produce too much of it for too long, or those with tumors in pancreas that release glucagon, in those cases blood glucose levels reach really high values and just continue going up, resulting in sugar coma.

Anyway, I hope you find the perfect balance for you and that your body learns to control things better.

Pancreas needs to learn to not overproduce insulin now that you consume a whole lot less carbs, are you still on any non insulin diabetes meds as those may make adapting a little harder, especially sulfonylureas that cause pancreas to release more insulin (basically that is like taking insulin still, only it also wears out the pancreas beta cells at least according to Dr Alan Einstein @ http://www.diabetesnewsstand.com/vissue/einstein/titlepage.html rather interesting video too I think.)

And I thought I had it made again. I had a hamburger before rehab which is way more fat, carbs and calories than I normally eat for lunch. That should do it – give me more than enough calories to burn.

I only fell to 86 and so that was perfect, right? I ate more before so I didn’t eat after, other than a piece of hard candy. Two hours later I was 67 and in the middle of — not sure what to call it, it’s just I feel differently when I’m crashing v. when I’m solid in the 70s. All I wanted to do was sleep. Eating felt like way too much trouble.

However, I feel perfectly fine in the 80s and 90s now and even in the 70s when I’m, like I said, solid there. I still don’t think I’m likely to have dangerous lows, I’ve watched my body compensate for low blood sugar and often wondered if I have too much glucagon. But, the crashing feeling is no fun at all.

MSG might however make one hungrier and is also a bit addictive. So in Pringle’s case it sort of fits with their whole slogan “once you pop, you can’t stop”

If you feel like reading some more about MSG/Glutamate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glutamic_acid_(flavor)#Research_into_health_effects
and more concise
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monosodium_glutamate#Health_concerns

I do seem sensitive to things that might badly effect asthmatic people though, and after to the best of my ability clearing those out of my food I feel somewhat better, but the downside is that I am now much more sensitive to those compounds. So this might not really matter so much for you.

As for the lows you are having after exercise, it might be worth eating something that will release sugar slowly during and after exercise, though try not to eat so much that digestion makes you tired during the exercise.

If you can avoid extra sugars/carbs you will sooner enter full fat burning mode and stabilize fully at this new low level without symptoms, though it usually takes at least two weeks for muscles and brain to switch to using fat and ketones as their main power source, and during switch over one usually feels less able to perform, and then after switching over most people feel more capable than before, including me.

Also sitting down a while having a little water and letting body rest should be able to adjust the blood glucose up too, via the effect of glucagon that should be released when blood insulin levels go lower (when blood glucose gets low), it just takes a while before body gets good at it. Blood glucose can be released from glycogen storage (these stores should be pretty full most of the time unless you eat an extremely low carb diet or do insanely intense exercise), produced from burning protein, and even, to a lesser extent, burning fat (each triglyceride can provide one glucose molecule from the glycerin being converted).

Still it is a good idea to have some carbs to use if the lows feel too bad, good carb sources probably would be juice or perhaps dry fruit if you can chew those properly (dry fruit will not turn into wine in a hot car, while juice might)

Sorry about being babbly, hope you get used to these low blood glucose values and everything.

What a concept! Of course, right now I’m symptomatic in the 70s and in that case, he says to eat. Without the insulin, there should be very little chance of going really too low. I’m quite curious to see what happens next. Perhaps one day I will be completely diet controlled.

How very strange.