Road Traffic Accident

I am doing LCHF diet, and my daily target is 120-150 Net carbs, so 100 may be a little low, but there are some here that are aiming for 20 gms a day. I did read a LC diet site somewhere that decried peanut butter because, although peanuts are technically low carb, the gunk we buy in the supermart is a highly processed sugar trap. Also there are charts etc on the web that list the carb content of veg and fruit. You may be eating the wrong things, even thought they are healthy (not so sure about the peanut butter though) Even 1 medium banana can send your bgl into orbit if its ripe. Most of us struggle with rising levels after a meal, and there are guidelines on this site somewhere that show what numbers are considered 'normal' for T2 on orals. One thing to remember is that everything we eat, apart from non soluble fibre, gets converted to glucose in the blood to feed the machine. Those advocating a LC diet would like us to believe that fat and carbs have no effect on blood sugar, but they are wrong. if you want to scare yourself, google Krebs Cycle or Citrus Cycle. As Angelina Jolie's tatoo says 'Everything I eat kills me' Even cholesterol gets used if bgl levels drop too low.

I don't know about physical trauma but my blood sugar rises with stress! Not by as much as yours has moved but blood sugar is affected by more than food choices!

dfeeh14 said:

Thanks Oldvatr. I take your kindly advice. However, my issue is that my diet has not changed since my accident (my peanut paste addiction is long standing, sorry), apart from eating less than normal, and yet my numbers have hit the roof. I'm wondering if anyone has the experience of physical trauma affecting their BGL.

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OK, I take your point. Let me share something that I suffer from. I am doing LC diet, and am also seeing lowish numbers ( aound 7 mmol/L ) most of the time. However I find that if I miss my breakfast, then I suddenly get numbers around 12-15 mmol/L, which is nothing to do with my days activities. I believe that this spike is due to what is termed Liver Dump, and is the result of a prolonged period of little or no carb input. Just a slice of toaast and butter in the morning is sufficient to keep my bgl low, but I do notice that my pre meal readings can be lower than my fasting levels on 1 slice, but are ok on 2 slices.

dfeeh14 said:

Thanks Oldvatr. I take your kindly advice. However, my issue is that my diet has not changed since my accident (my peanut paste addiction is long standing, sorry), apart from eating less than normal, and yet my numbers have hit the roof. I'm wondering if anyone has the experience of physical trauma affecting their BGL.

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Hiya, yes stress and illness definitely raise my BGs. I had a chest infection and was up in the 17 region! It took weeks to come back down. Doc told me to stop testing so much as the anxiety was making it worse.

When you are ill or injured your body produces hormones to help mend you and this pushes your BGs up. Try not to worry.

No surprise there really, the emergency department does exactly that, deal with emergency body treatment - they don't have the practical day-to-day knowledge to deal with diabetes I think. Same with GPs, if I don't see my 'Diabetes' doctor they seem to be a little sketchy on the details! That's what we are here for, we are right know-it-alls

8 to 9 post meal is higher than all of us aim for but not a disaster, give your body systems time to re-adjust.

I am learning that all sorts of weird things can affect your blood sugar. Of course I have read about it on the forum but only recently experienced it myself. In my case it was something as simple as Jet Lag. Took about 10 days for things to settle down. The trauma associated with a traffic accident has got to be much worse. Just stick with all the good things you were doing before. Eventually you should get back to your normal numbers.

Trauma and stress will increase things like cortisol production, which in turn affect insulin resistance. All good advice given above in thread, just give it a bit of time to settle down.