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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Diabetes / July 2006What happens when you ask for NO SUGAR?
What happens when you ask for no sugar? You get honey! I ordered a drink and specifically said no sugar. So instead I get my drink with honey! I guess it's not good enough to assume that what you ask for is what you get. On a side note, I find that just like the days when I suffered from reactive hypoglycemia and hadn't eaten, I feel like crap and it takes the whole day to recover!! The other day I ate breakfast & went to the gym at my workplace. I could tell that the glucose was being burned up as my head was starting to throb after 15 minutes. My before workout bg was 7.7 mmol. After 30 minutes of the cross trainer, shower & back at my desk, I tested 3.9 mmol. By then I was pretty in-coherant so I went to the cafe and ordered a slice of rye bread dark (I know it's not the same as the rye bread I buy, so it probably had 20 grms of carb?? cream cheese & 1 sausage link. I knew I couldn't trust the bread as 1 hr. I was at 8.6 mmol & at 2 hours I was at 7.4 mmol, but at 3 hours I was at 5.4 mmol. So even at that time with my level normal, I felt like sh.t and was still pretty fuzzy all day. Is it normal to have a low affect your whole day??? Not number wise, but headache, crankiness, foggy, and plain YUK? This does get tiring every now and then doesn't it??? Trinity >Is it normal to have a low affect your whole day??? Not number wise, but headache, >crankiness, foggy, and plain YUK? > >This does get tiring every now and then doesn't it??? >Trinity Hi Trin, When I have a low like that, it ruins my whole day.... Hope you are doing better, now. Will, T2 Hi Will, Yes, that was Thursday. The sucky part about diabetes is when I get low, I feel like crap the whole day, but if I'm high I don't really notice it, unless I've been high for an extend period of time, then my feet start throbbing. Having a low is like having a hangover. Just gotta wait for the next day. Cheers, Trinity .M.McKee <wmmckee@cox.net> wrote: >>Is it normal to have a low affect your whole day??? Not number wise, but headache, >>crankiness, foggy, and plain YUK? [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > >Will, T2 >Hi Will, >Yes, that was Thursday. The sucky part about diabetes is when I get low, I >feel like crap the whole day, but if I'm high I don't really notice it, unless >I've been high for an extend period of time, then my feet start throbbing. > >Having a low is like having a hangover. Just gotta wait for the next day. Actually, I have come to think that having a hangover is partly, at least, all about having a low.... The feeling is very similar, he said, as he sipped on his martini. The main difference is that our condition of diabetes makes our regulation of our BG much less automatic, and thus susceptible to factors that most non-diabetics do not have to think about. Glad you are doing better, now. Will, T2. Not to mention the trickiness of consuming the right amount of carb to correct the low. There's a lot of talk of when low have a lifesavers or smarties candy = 15 grams of fast acting carb. But does that work when you bg is at a certain low? To me the 3.9 was low enough that I wanted to eat something to raise it to 6 or 7, but it went to 8.6 & didn't drop very fast. So next time, I will not eat what I ate, but maybe I'll have the lifesavers. Another thing I notice with feeling lousy is when I'm hungry, but my number is in normal range. i get the same low feeling. So it's a matter of eating just like w/ hypoglycemia - every 2-3 hours. Luckily I don't have many lows, but they suck when they happen. I hope you don't get many Will! Cheers, Trinity >>Hi Will, >>Yes, that was Thursday. The sucky part about diabetes is when I get low, I [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > >Will, T2. >Another thing I notice with feeling lousy is when I'm hungry, but my number >is in normal range. i get the same low feeling. So it's a matter of eating [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >Cheers, >Trinity Hi Trinity, I have had a few real hypos, but not that many... so, I do know the feeling and what you are talking about. Coming back from a low like that, a hyperglycemic episode of 8.6, while not good, is not something to get unduly worried about, as long as you can return to a more normal level within a few hours... When it happens, you know what to do... Just do not have so much of whatever it was that you had, next time. Some people use lifesavers, others use orange juice, and still others use straight glucose tablets, or something else. Just be cautious, and you should be OK... Here's hoping for no more lows ! Will, T2 Thanks Will!! I will hopefully keep the lows away & at least modify my game plan to get back to normal!! Cheers, Trinity >>Another thing I notice with feeling lousy is when I'm hungry, but my number >>is in normal range. i get the same low feeling. So it's a matter of eating [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > >Will, T2 Hi Trinity, Yes, a low pretty well ruins the whole day. Before I got a clue, I suffered reactive hypoglycemia frequently, and one attack took hours to fully recover from, although the BG got back to normal very quickly after eating some carb. Even then, I often felt run down the rest of the day. Michelle T2 diet & exercise > Is it normal to have a low affect your whole day??? Not number wise, but headache, > crankiness, foggy, and plain YUK? > > This does get tiring every now and then doesn't it??? > Trinity Hi Michelle, And that's just a low: 3.9 to 4.9 mmol. I don't even want to imagine what I'd feel like below 3.0, or in hypo territory, although I have gotten down to 3.0 after exercise with the same effects. Trinity >Hi Trinity, > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >> This does get tiring every now and then doesn't it??? >> Trinity Julie, I see your post on google, but the news server I'm on hasn't posted your response yet, so I'm piggybacking to my own post. We frequent Asian restaurants in Markham Ontario and sometimes we stop at a 'Tea Shop'. There are several ones that we stop at, and I've only ordered this a few times experimenting, but at one place I ordered red bean w/ coffee which at one place put it in the blender & it came out like an icee (sp). I tell them I don't want sugar just the red bean powder & coffee & it's fine. Well I was getting food without my spouse who is Asian and went to a different franchise. I pretty much knew right away that they would not give me what I want, but I didn't expect the honey in place of the no sugar. I asked the guy if they had the red bean coffee drink, no sugar, no tapioca balls. Well he didn't put it in the blender, so it wasn't icee like, he just put ice cubes and shook it. (Not the same!!) Then when I left and tasted it, it had honey. I just let it be, because sometimes with Asian people and I am half Asian myself so I half know what I'm talking about!!! :) When I ask for no eggs, they think then their dish is not as good, but I explain it is a food allergy. Maybe the same was true with this. To me I like the taste of the red bean & coffee no sugar. Tastes fine to me. But I'm sure to those who make it, they cannot imagine and feel it is not as good with it not being sweet. Thus I think why honey. Sure he even wrote on the paper - no sugar, but I'm sure he just could not imagine drinking it unsweetened. Oh well. I'll just have to remember to go to the first place that got it right the way I like it. Cheers, Trinity. >Hi Michelle, >And that's just a low: 3.9 to 4.9 mmol. I don't even want to imagine what I'd [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >>> This does get tiring every now and then doesn't it??? >>> Trinity > What happens when you ask for no sugar? You get honey! I ordered a > drink and specifically said no sugar. So instead I get my drink with honey! > I guess it's not good enough to assume that what you ask for is what you get. What kind of drink was it? > On a side note, I find that just like the days when I suffered from reactive > hypoglycemia and hadn't eaten, I feel like crap and it takes the whole day [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > This does get tiring every now and then doesn't it??? I have some lows that I recover from quickly and others that mess me up for the whole day. I never know which it is going to be. For that hypo, you should have laid off the cream cheese and sausage, at least until the carbs from the bread kicked in.  SignatureSee my webpage: http://mysite.verizon.net/juliebove/index.htm |
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