Blood Sugar Problems HELP!!

I am currently 3 years out and have been experiencing trouble with my blood sugar levels.  Either I am to high...shakey and sweaty, or  I have been dropping.  I am having a very hard time keeping myself level.  I know I need to keep food on hand just in case, but at this time I am so worried about weight gain.   Thank you for all your help. Shelly

I have a similar issue and have to stay pretty  much low carb or the sugars shoot right up.  This has been a problem for me for quite some time now.  If I have high carb I can count on the nasty hypoglycemic drop.  So, I do my best to avoid it by staying away from excessive carbs.  I never reached my goal weight because of the problem and other reasons, but I do find that if I adhere to a low carb diet I can manage to maintain weight.  I did have a 30 pound bounce back as i was working this out and learning to take it seriously.  It has my attention now.

Sadly, this seems to come free with RNY. As Sandy said, keeping carbs limited helps, but somtimes, it's not that obvious. I read a steady recently on this which concluded, inaccurately I belie, that the HG is caused by the patient. Um, no. Not always.

There is a LOT of info at yahoo Grads over the years, looking under hypoglycemia, reactive hypoglycemia and RHG. The link is: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Graduate-OSSG

the one thing we've all agreed on is that eating candy or glucose is not the solution, but that peanut butter with a simple carbs (most of carry the packaged crackers) is the most stable way to stop an attack and prevent another.

I went on all protein, basically no carbs that went beyond what occured naturally in meat, fish or low carb bars (like 30g protein for 2g net carbs) and protein drinks (30g protein for 0-3g sugars, made with water) to dump some wt very quickly and did NOT have any blood sugar issues. I thought it odd since I was barely consuming any cars at all. That lends credence to the "eat a carb, drop the BS later" theory, but there have been many times that I ate no carbs and still had LBS, even as much as 8 hours after the last meal.

you have my/our complete sympathy with this, but do hang with others who are learning how to manage it, because it's not really in our surgeons' training, and we don't fit the pattern that endocrinologists understand, either.

I'm an oddity at the moment.  I have a drs appt on Friday to try to figure things out.  I'm 5 years post op never reached goal weight and admit that until about 2 months ago my diet included lots of carbs.  At 8 months post op I was a diet controlled diabetic.  By 2 years post op I was back on one pill with meals, prandin (2mg).  For 8 weeks, I have been on a low carb, at least 70 grams of protein diet and I exercise almost every day for an hour.  I thought my blood sugars would be improving.  I am experiencing the same symptoms you wrote.  I am either too high or I drop really quickly.  Prandin is one of the insulin stimulants thus it can cause weight gain.  I'm losing weight now but very slowly and even a slight deviation from the very strict diet I am following shows up as a couple of lbs on the scale.   Still I do feel better and I think I look better than I have in months.  I just really want to get to the root of the blood sugar issues.  I want to switch to another med, glucophage which doesn't cause weight gain.  However I tried it and it doesn't lower my blood sugars enough, i dont think I'm absorbing it at all. I am following the sugar busters diet which teaches about the glycemic index and how certain foods spike blood sugars more readily than others.  I've cut out all refined sugars and starches.  Even with that, I am not leveling. I guess I dont have any answers, but if my Dr tells me anything enlightening I will certainly share it. Rosemary

Just curious, I am 2 years out the end of this month, what on average do we need to stay at on carb intake? Thanks.

Hi Rosemary, Thank you so much for writing.  I will be looking up the sugar busters diet, it sounds like something that just might help.  Right now I am trying to see what foods send me up and over and what is bringing me so low.  I have been trying to eat more protein and really watch the carb intake.  Do you know what is a good number of carbs we should be eating per day?   Thank you again for all your information.  It has helped....I need all the support I can get Shelly

I know it may sound crazy but when I asked my NUT how many carbs to eat at about 10 months out from surgery.  She said if I wanted to keep losing weight shoot for 130g a day and if I want to maintain 180g a day.  She said the brain needs 130 a day just to function properly.  Now keep in mind that is for good carbs and includes milk, veggies and fruit along with whole grain foods.