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<blockquote data-quote="Ivey" data-source="post: 1799808" data-attributes="member: 475233"><p>Hi Lamont, </p><p></p><p>Thanks for that info, yes it's all trial and error at the moment for me. I can't eat processed food so I cook from scratch and I do fast a lot as some times I am too tired, or still full from my last meal to eat and my glucose levels are fine, even though my bariatric nutritionist seems to differ with my hospital based facts! I did the 72hr fasting glucose test and they actually kept me in 4 days and the lowest I dropped was a 51 and was walking and talking. I am still learning the signs for when my glucose levels are dropping. Sometimes I sweat, sometimes it's blurry vision, or wanting to faint but it's the shaking I notice the most. The others are kind of like my vasovagal syncope so I have to test glucose and blood pressure. I try something new either a new form of fat or a carb (as my nutrients insists) and check and see what happens, I log it in my glucose diary and now have noticed that sometime my glucose drops when I do my daily walking, but if I fast and do my walking I am good glucose is perfect. I see my Endocrinologist this week to ask him all about this but according to all the test results there is nothing wrong with my endocrine system, so the only last place to check is a neurological problem and if that comes up all clear then it's all the result of the gastric bypass as to why I am hypoglycemic and orthostatic hypotensive with vasovagal syncope. I just want to stop fainting and collapsing. I did the surgery not to lose weight but for health reasons. All my doctors were if you lose weight my PCOS, my arthritis, my radiculopathy, my fibromyalgia and sleep apnea will get better. The only thing that got better was the sleep apnea which didn't bother me (I didn't even know I had it) everything got worse. </p><p></p><p>One of the things with gastric bypass is that if you have too much fat or sugar you get "dumping syndrome" so you either vomit up everything you just ate or you get really bad diarrhea. I am lucky I vomit and not get the diarrhea but I vomit up a lot of foods even sometimes water if my stomach is still irritated from the day before so I fast and then just take the lecture from the nutritionist. I am going to ask my Endo doctor to send my nutritionist a letter to explain to her that it is ok for me to fast and to get off my back about her carbs!! I swear I think she is either married to a sweet potato farmer or has stock in them as she is always pushing them on me!! She also has me on a sugar free diet so no sugar at all ( I was using peanut butter with a bit of money to raise my glucose when it dropped but she didn't like that at all), so when my glucose drops I don't know what to do except eat a cucumber or a handful of lettuce. For me it's all a guessing game and just writing everything down and now I am adding if I went out for a walk to my diary and just checking my BP (blood pressure) and glucose levels. I never ate so much in my life!! There are days I don't want to eat or drink at all. I appreciate the fact that I am not the only one that glucose levels are fine with fasting!! They were trying to convince me that wasn't right just like my nutritionist thinks the carbs dropping my glucose levels isn't right either but my end doctor agreed with me especially when he saw it happen at the hospital!</p><p></p><p>Many Thanks,</p><p></p><p>Ivey</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ivey, post: 1799808, member: 475233"] Hi Lamont, Thanks for that info, yes it's all trial and error at the moment for me. I can't eat processed food so I cook from scratch and I do fast a lot as some times I am too tired, or still full from my last meal to eat and my glucose levels are fine, even though my bariatric nutritionist seems to differ with my hospital based facts! I did the 72hr fasting glucose test and they actually kept me in 4 days and the lowest I dropped was a 51 and was walking and talking. I am still learning the signs for when my glucose levels are dropping. Sometimes I sweat, sometimes it's blurry vision, or wanting to faint but it's the shaking I notice the most. The others are kind of like my vasovagal syncope so I have to test glucose and blood pressure. I try something new either a new form of fat or a carb (as my nutrients insists) and check and see what happens, I log it in my glucose diary and now have noticed that sometime my glucose drops when I do my daily walking, but if I fast and do my walking I am good glucose is perfect. I see my Endocrinologist this week to ask him all about this but according to all the test results there is nothing wrong with my endocrine system, so the only last place to check is a neurological problem and if that comes up all clear then it's all the result of the gastric bypass as to why I am hypoglycemic and orthostatic hypotensive with vasovagal syncope. I just want to stop fainting and collapsing. I did the surgery not to lose weight but for health reasons. All my doctors were if you lose weight my PCOS, my arthritis, my radiculopathy, my fibromyalgia and sleep apnea will get better. The only thing that got better was the sleep apnea which didn't bother me (I didn't even know I had it) everything got worse. One of the things with gastric bypass is that if you have too much fat or sugar you get "dumping syndrome" so you either vomit up everything you just ate or you get really bad diarrhea. I am lucky I vomit and not get the diarrhea but I vomit up a lot of foods even sometimes water if my stomach is still irritated from the day before so I fast and then just take the lecture from the nutritionist. I am going to ask my Endo doctor to send my nutritionist a letter to explain to her that it is ok for me to fast and to get off my back about her carbs!! I swear I think she is either married to a sweet potato farmer or has stock in them as she is always pushing them on me!! She also has me on a sugar free diet so no sugar at all ( I was using peanut butter with a bit of money to raise my glucose when it dropped but she didn't like that at all), so when my glucose drops I don't know what to do except eat a cucumber or a handful of lettuce. For me it's all a guessing game and just writing everything down and now I am adding if I went out for a walk to my diary and just checking my BP (blood pressure) and glucose levels. I never ate so much in my life!! There are days I don't want to eat or drink at all. I appreciate the fact that I am not the only one that glucose levels are fine with fasting!! They were trying to convince me that wasn't right just like my nutritionist thinks the carbs dropping my glucose levels isn't right either but my end doctor agreed with me especially when he saw it happen at the hospital! Many Thanks, Ivey [/QUOTE]
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