• Guest - w'd love to know what you think about the forum! Take the 2025 Survey »

Low BG but heavy carbs supper

MikeTurin

MikeTurin

Well-Known Member
Messages
564
Location
Turin, Italy
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
Yesterady I've eaten outside home: Pierogi with butter and ice cream. This morning I tried my fasting BG ad was low: 72 mg/dl or 4 mmol/L. That sounds to me counterintuitive: I've eaten a lot more carbs than normally I do and was expecting an higher value.
I take only metformin and statins, that can't cause an hypo, so seems to me a bit strange. Tomorrow I'll go to my GP for unrelated things, I'll ask her about it.
 
MikeTurin said:
Yesterady I've eaten outside home: Pierogi with butter and ice cream. This morning I tried my fasting BG ad was low: 72 mg/dl or 4 mmol/L. That sounds to me counterintuitive: I've eaten a lot more carbs than normally I do and was expecting an higher value.
I take only metformin and statins, that can't cause an hypo, so seems to me a bit strange. Tomorrow I'll go to my GP for unrelated things, I'll ask her about it.
Click to expand...
There is a fair amount of fat in the meals you've eaten. This can dampen the BG spiking effect from the carbohydrates in those meals.

It's possible that the fat content has allowed your BG to return to a normal value a lot easier than if you had eaten the same amount of carbs in the form or white rice for example. Just a guess.

There are so many factors that can affect our BG readings so it's hard to say why your fasting level was lower than normal. It's not ACTUALLY low by the way, so I'd be quite pleased with that reading:)

Grant
 
MikeTurin said:
Yesterady I've eaten outside home: Pierogi with butter and ice cream. This morning I tried my fasting BG ad was low: 72 mg/dl or 4 mmol/L. That sounds to me counterintuitive: I've eaten a lot more carbs than normally I do and was expecting an higher value.
I take only metformin and statins, that can't cause an hypo, so seems to me a bit strange. Tomorrow I'll go to my GP for unrelated things, I'll ask her about it.
Click to expand...
Did you have anything to drink with it? Alcohol can cause very low blood sugar. My response is immediate - but some have a delayed response (overnight - sometimes causing hypos in susceptible individuals).

Currently, my blood glucose returns to the 80s within 2 hours from most things I eat - so as long as I was down to the 80s before I went to sleep, that would be a relatively normal BG for me. (If I go to sleep high, though, I generally wake up high.)
 
Very often, if I have more carbs than usual, my fasting blood glucose is lower than usual the next morning.
- seems like a good thing on the surface, but I don't feel that way.

I see it as flogging my poor pancreas to work harder than usual, producing more insulin than usual, which ain't good for my feeble beta cells. In addition, it will have increased my insulin resistance (detectable by feeling heavy-limbed and unwilling to exercise).
 
MAkes sense that a lot of fats will damp the carbohydrate spikes so I got a low BG reading, but makes also sense that it's an overshoot of high carb intake.
Anyway to be on the safe side today I ate some mixed salad with olives and olive oil and 150 g of Maasdam cheese. Look ma! (almost) no carbs!
 
Back
Top