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Low 5's and eating - Type 2

Erin

Erin

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I have noticed that when I get a blood glucose number of say 5.1 on my meter and continue to eat,
i get an upper stomach/heart? symptom. Often I get tired after and maybe take a nap. Then I stabilize. I wonder if I
am just eating a lot to bring the number up or if it is a cardiac response? As the years go by, I seem
to tolerate high numbers better, and the hypos not at all.
 
Heart burn / indigestion and feeling tired are symptoms of high sugars, so are you perhaps seeing a 5.1 then injecting and eating right away ? I would think that could be the case if your spiking after the meal before your insulin is bringing you back to a normal number you would go high and feel poorly for an hour or two, about 45 minutes after eating and then start to come back to normal.

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Diamattic said:
Heart burn / indigestion and feeling tired are symptoms of high sugars, so are you perhaps seeing a 5.1 then injecting and eating right away ? I would think that could be the case if your spiking after the meal before your insulin is bringing you back to a normal number you would go high and feel poorly for an hour or two, about 45 minutes after eating and then start to come back to normal.

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Bingo.... that is something i read in my Jphns Hopkins Diabetes book. But I was also curious about the side effects of sulfam.... oral drugs which do have a heart burn side effect--- something i would rather have than a cardiac roller coaster. Thank you.
 
@Erin - even though you have a pre meal reading of 5.1 and inject the amount of insulin that should cover the carbs you eat you WILL spike before that insulin brings you back to normal. I have found if i do not wait at least 20min between injecting and eating that my sugars will go from 5.1 to 10+ and stay there for about 30-45 minutes and then start to return to normal, and end back at 5.1, 4 hours later.

This spike will cause damage to your cells, as you can feel already. Because of this i have found that as long as i eat no more then 30g of carbs per meal i can keep my sugars <7.5 all the time, which isn't amazing, but its better then the life shortening rollercoaster of 5s to 12s and back....

I would suggest simply waiting longer after injecting and eating less carbs.
 
Diamattic said:
@Erin - even though you have a pre meal reading of 5.1 and inject the amount of insulin that should cover the carbs you eat you WILL spike before that insulin brings you back to normal. I have found if i do not wait at least 20min between injecting and eating that my sugars will go from 5.1 to 10+ and stay there for about 30-45 minutes and then start to return to normal, and end back at 5.1, 4 hours later.

This spike will cause damage to your cells, as you can feel already. Because of this i have found that as long as i eat no more then 30g of carbs per meal i can keep my sugars <7.5 all the time, which isn't amazing, but its better then the life shortening rollercoaster of 5s to 12s and back....

I would suggest simply waiting longer after injecting and eating less carbs.
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Thanks for the advice Diamattic. When I eat too much and I am on the low range, I do feel chest tightness. I eat a lot so as not to feel too low and I have read that as you age the lower numbers are not the best. BTW I take gluclizide, not insulin.
 
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