This blood sugar fluctuation is getting on my nerves!
I feel like crap often so I bought a blood sugar tester and strips. I used to do it because I had gestational diabetes and was on insulin with my second pregnancy before WLS. Some days I feel like garbage and check my blood sugar and it's in the 200s. Then I feel like crap some days and it's 60, like today. Why the crazy fluctuations? Am I diabetic again? I was on metformin for PCOS and insulin resistance but my surgeon stopped it the day after surgery. I'm wondering if I should still take it! I bought glucose tablets for low blood sugar times but when it's high I don't know what to do. How do you handle these feelings? It doesn't seem to matter what the heck I eat!
Are you sure it doesn't matter what you eat? How long after you eat does it normally drop when it gets real low?
Usually the best way to keep it stable (or at least pretty stable) is to eat something with protein every couple hours and never eat carbs without eating protein with them. Like, if you want a couple crackers for a snack. put some cheese or peanut butter on them.
Eating something with complex carbs and protein is probably the best thing to do when it drops, too, rather than using those glucose tablets.
Don't start taking the metformin without checking with your doc first, but it sounds like it would be a good idea to give him a call about it.
Usually the best way to keep it stable (or at least pretty stable) is to eat something with protein every couple hours and never eat carbs without eating protein with them. Like, if you want a couple crackers for a snack. put some cheese or peanut butter on them.
Eating something with complex carbs and protein is probably the best thing to do when it drops, too, rather than using those glucose tablets.
Don't start taking the metformin without checking with your doc first, but it sounds like it would be a good idea to give him a call about it.
Kelly
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Sounds like diabetes to me. I have been Type 1 diabetic for 30 plus years and that is the way diabetes is. But ofcourse I am on an insulin pump and get better control.
I would suggest you get retested to be sure you can take care of yourself. I might also add that you may want to really watch your carbs, as they can make the blood sugar levels go crazy, up or down.
Good luck.
I would suggest you get retested to be sure you can take care of yourself. I might also add that you may want to really watch your carbs, as they can make the blood sugar levels go crazy, up or down.
Good luck.
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Sounds like RH to me. The high sugars- are probably from eating too many carbs, or the wrong for you carbs . It is most likely related to what you eat and when.
You just do not know how the food is affecting you.
You just do not know how the food is affecting you.
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