Guess what I learned?
OK, no one should eat tortilla chips for dinner. Even if they are too tired to cook.
And someone that has a hard time eating starchy carbs in moderation should not even have a bag of tortilla chips in the house, especially the really yummy "hint of lime" ones.
Because what happens when someone with reactive hypoglycemia eats tortilla chips for dinner? blood sugar of 51 is what happens. Duh.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
I have had RH once, and it was on cherry pie filling that had too much sugar.
Curiously I didn't dump, but I sure got RH- down to 40's. I'll never do that
again! But I'm willing to bet I could get there on chips....so I try to keep
them out of the house or if family gets them, they are ordered to eat
them up. Hint of lime you say? Ohhhhh...double evil.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
but i guess what i am asking is what do you do about it? how do you know you have it? did you always have it? I remember checking my sugars on my dad's meter and sometimes i was really low..in the 60's but i usually felt fine and strangely was a coca cola classic drinker at the time. lol just me being dumb... ha. Laurie says: Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind ~~~ dr. suess
Hypoglycemia is low blood sugar. Hypo means low, glycemia is sugar. By the way, hyper means high, so if I said I had hyperglycemia, that would mean I had high blood sugar.
Eating simple carbs can cause your sugar to spike, then crash. That's what mine does. If I eat some protein with the carbs, it does not do that.
As far as what to do about it, what I should do, and usually do, is not eat a bunch of simple carbs, especially with no protein. When I do have an episode of hypoglycemia, I eat something with a little sugar and a good amount of protein. Like a protein bar.
I did not always have this, it's a common thing that happens a couple years out from RNY for some reason. Reactive hypoglycemia. The only way to know for sure you have it is to check your glucose level with a glucometer, but I can tell now when it's happening because I feel really shaky, my hands do shake, I feel kind of ill, dizzy, weak. And food fixes it.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
Mary D.
Pre op: 260 lbs, 5'3"
Goal reached 14 months later: 130 lbs
Regain over next 3.5 years to a high of: 166 lbs
Current weight: 135.8 lbs and heading back to 130 lbs!!
