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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Diabetes / May 2008Morning numbers
I have noticed that if the last of my four meals a day is a salad or something not very high in carbs, my morning readings are often higher than they would be if at around 8 or 9 in the evening I have a potato or soup with grains. I was diagnosed 17 or `18 years ago and use only diet and exercise to control blood sugar. Usually my fasting readings are somewhere in the 90's with a low carb meal at around 8 or 9 o'clock the night before. Last night I had a lot of soup with oatmeal and whole wheat cous cous in it along with vegetables. This morning my reading was 76. This does not occur every time I eat higher carb and it is hard to know exactly what kind and amount of food will produce a particular result. I suspect that sometimes it depends on what else I have eaten the day before and how much exercise I get. Do you think this means that I was producing too much insulin for the morning reading to have been so low? I am wondering if it is better to eat very low carb in the evening and have a higher fasting reading. Any opinions would be appreciated. (If only we could test our insulin like we test our blood sugar.) Dolores dorsy1943 <dtms69@usadatanet.net> wrote in news:e7d90687-7d8a-4eb2-80df- 250a0ec0828c@z16g2000prn.googlegroups.com: <snip> > Do you think this means that I was producing too much insulin for the > morning reading to have been so low? I am wondering if it is better > to eat very low carb in the evening and have a higher fasting > reading. Any opinions would be appreciated. (If only we could test > our insulin like we test our blood sugar.) I would suggest you check your bg at various times overnight. A different explanation could be on your low-carb evenings you go low overnight and then get the over-correction from a liver dump (and then add the dawn phenomenon). Of course exercise complicates the tracking. Cindy Wells (It's never simple, for any of us. My bg this week is probably all over the map and I'm not going to test. I live on a hay farm and it's baling time. Excess exercise and dehydration gives weird results any way so I'll eat a bit more snacks and try to keep up the fluids.) > Dolores > dorsy1943 <dtm...@usadatanet.net> wrote in news:e7d90687-7d8a-4eb2-80df- > 250a0ec08...@z16g2000prn.googlegroups.com: [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > > Dolores Any thing between 70 to 100 in the fasting is normal. If your levels all below 65 then its condition called hypoglycemia. Eating low carbohydrate diet rich in fiber is good for diabetics. Eat fresh fruits and vegetables in moderation. Increase the potassium intake (banana, apricots and tomato) as lack of potassium is also a cause diabetes visit http://www.reddiabetes.com for complete information on every aspect of diabetes. More spam Go away. Cheers, Alan, T2, Australia. d&e, metformin 1500mg, ezetrol 10mg Everything in Moderation - Except Laughter. -- http://loraldiabetes.blogspot.com Latest:What to Eat Until You Get Your Meter. Angkor Wat http://loraltravel.blogspot.com >Do you think this means that I was producing too much insulin for the >morning reading to have been so low? I am wondering if it is better >to eat very low carb in the evening and have a higher fasting >reading. Any opinions would be appreciated. (If only we could test >our insulin like we test our blood sugar.) Yeah, I'd LOVE an insulin meter <sigh>... Sounds to me like you're liver dumping. What if you tried a compromise, and had a relatively low-carb but high protein snack in the evening? Maybe potato skins with cheese, kind of thing? The idea is that the protein breaks down to glucose much slower, and so there's some glucose around when the liver does a status check in the early hours of the morning. I used to use a handful of nuts and a glass of wine to achieve the same thing; wine also slows everything down. Nicky. T2 dx 05/04 + underactive thyroid D&E, 100ug thyroxine Last A1c 5.6% BMI 25 > On Wed, 21 May 2008 04:32:38 -0700 (PDT), dorsy1943 > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > D&E, 100ug thyroxine > Last A1c 5.6% BMI 25 thanks to all. I was reading a reference cited on another group that the insulin produced by eating carbs and protein together is a larger amount than that which is the result of eating either carbs alone or protein alone. It occurs to me that if this is happening and you find a lower blood sugar when you eat protein with carb then maybe it is because there is more insulin present, not just because the protein does not raise blood sugar very much. I do not low carb but I also do not eat much more than a serving of potato or bread or pasta or rice at each meal. I also eat fruit. Low fat but not unreasonably low as I eat some nuts and seeds a teaspoon or so of olive oil on salads and canned wild salmon. I do not remember the reason but someone elsewhere claimed it is very bad to eat protein and vegetables with very low fat. My daughter was on such a diet supervised by a doctor and she had very very little fat, but did eat eggs and lean meat and vegetables but no starchy vegies or grains and no sugar. Dolores |
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