[Diabetes-Talk] {Spam?} Re: {Spam?} Blood sugar lows, possibly not eating enough

[Eileen Scrivani]

Hi Terry,

First, If you treat your lows with chocolate the low BG will not come up quickly and sounds like you might even be eating more of it to try and fix your low numbers. Juice is a much better choice since it does not have the high fat content and it might even help you with the constipation issues. Also chocolate is a binding food and might be adding to the bathroom problems. Try drinking juice or even having a small number of prunes in the morning (like 2 or 3) and see if it helps.

Good luck.

Eileen 

From: Terri Stimmel via Diabetes-Talk 
Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2021 11:45 PM
To: diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org 
Cc: Terri Stimmel 
Subject: [Diabetes-Talk] {Spam?} Blood sugar lows, possibly not eating enough

Hello everyone,


I hope you all are doing well. I wanted to give a quick update. But I 
also have some questions.


So I don't see my diabetes specialist until December.

However, I can send her a message, if I need to. And I do this. I feel 
it is the easiest way to reach out to her.


I am currently only taking Ozempic. I am doing well. My numbers are 
good. Most of the time, they are staying under 150. I love this! It's 
amazing!


I had a partial hysterectomy in early August. The doctors, and nurses at 
the hospital told me that they were really surprised with how well my 
blood sugars bounced back, after my surgery. For part of the evening, 
after my surgery, my readings were high. But by the next day, all was 
good. My recovery went very well. Much better than my doctor even 
expected. I can't tell you how thankful I am for this.


I am struggling to get back to doing my peddling, and walking around my 
apartment, like I was doing. But I am trying to recktify this. I know 
how much better I feel, when I do exercise. And I have had the all clear 
from my doctor, for a little over a month now. So there really is no 
excuse. I have just gotten out of the habit of doing it.


Honestly, since my surgery, my struggles with constipation have seemed 
to double. I apologize if my mentioning this bothers some. But I think 
this can be something that many people can struggle with. But they don't 
feel they can talk about it. This affects me quite badly, and can cause 
me a lot of pain. I knew having the surgery would make things in this 
department more difficult.

However, I didn't think that they would be this difficult. I have been 
keeping my doctors informed. I am also taking a fiber pill once a day. 
Along with the medication I was already taking, before my surgery. Some 
days, I think things are improving. Other times, I am not at all sure.


Over all though, I really feel that I am doing well. I am still 
struggling when it comes to eating better. But I am trying. And when I 
struggle, I am trying to not beat myself up so much, about it. But this 
is all a work in progress.


So now that I have shared with you all how things are going with me, I 
do have a question, or two.


There are times that I am still struggling with low blood sugars. I 
really think that sometimes I am not eating enough at my meals. But I 
don't know if this is exactly the problem. I am just guessing, really.


But today alone, my blood sugar has gone under 70, three times. My 
diabetes specialist says to keep it at 80, and above. So I don't panic 
as much if it is at 90, or even 85. When my blood sugar goes low like 
this, I then reach for candy. But this isn't what I want to do. There 
has got to be a better answer to chocolate. Or things like that. I am 
really trying to cut down on the amount of candy I eat. Or the junk food 
in general.


So what can I do, besides reach for candy, when my blood sugar is going 
low like this?

Are there options?


This morning I ate a bowl of dry cereal. I don't normally eat cereal, 
much less dry cereal. But it was just the situation I was in. Also, the 
cereal was cinamon toast crunch. I know there is no good in that. But 
again, it was the situation I was in. This isn't something that would 
normally happen. I didn't have much of the cereal.


Later, for lunch, I had a turkey sandwich. That is something I normally 
eat. I did have a bit of mayo on the sandwich. I did use two pieces of 
bread. The bread was, Sara Lee, honey wheat. My sandwich had two pieces 
of cracked pepper turkey.


A couple hours after that sandwich, I noticed my blood sugar had gone 
into the low 80's. I can't remember now just exactly what it was. 
Sometimes it will come back up on it's own. But not this time. So I ate 
a couple of miniature snickers bars.


Then a few hours later, it was in the 70's. At this point, I was 
watching a show. I can tend to snack more when I am doing this. So I ate 
a couple miniature milkyway dark bars. As well as a miniature Hershey's 
milk chocolate bar.


About an hour later, we had dinner. We ate leftover pizza from the place 
we ordered from, last night. I had two pieces. It was a deluxe pizza. It 
had Itallian sausage, bacon, onions, green peppers, and mushrooms on it. 
It had a thicker crust. But not like something from pizza hut. This was 
all I had.


By about an hour and a half later, my blood sugar was 63. So again, I 
had some candy. I had two miniature peanut butter cups, and two 
miniature chocolate bars.


I know that this isn't the way to go about things. But I am a bit at a 
loss as to what to do.

How can I make some changes to get more balanced results?


By the way, my diabetes specialist informed me the other day, that 
Medicare may not cover my Lebrea sensors much longer, because I am no 
longer on insulin. She also told me that she doesn't feel I need to get 
my readings throughout the day. She said that I could just get my 
fasting blood sugar readings, three times a week. Honestly, I am not 
quite sure how I feel about this. If I don't keep up with knowing my 
readings, then I won't know when things possibly go out of wack. I don't 
want to end up where I was, even a year ago. For as long as I can 
possibly help it, or have anything to do with it.


Any thoughts or suggestions you all have, about any of this, is very 
much appreciated.


Thank you,


Terri


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