[Diabetes-Talk] Suggestions for clear liquid diet

[Lisa Belville]

No, they never said anything about modifying meds.  But they know I'm a 
diabetic.  And yep, that's it, plus they're doing an endoscopy at the 
same time.  Glad I'll be in lalala land. <grin>



Lisa Belville
missktlab1217 at frontier.com

On 9/11/2021 3:30 PM, Eileen Scrivani via Diabetes-Talk wrote:
> Sounds like the diet for a colonoscopy. I would recommend having juice or soda for the period you must prepare for the procedure and check your sugars more often than usual. Did they recommend cutting your insulin in any way or other diabetic meds? Even though your getting carbs (sugars) from the clear liquids you might find yourself running low since the high sugars don’t sustain for the length that solid foods with proteins & fats do.
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> Eileen
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> From: Lisa Belville via Diabetes-Talk
> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2021 4:10 PM
> To: Diabetes Talk for the Blind
> Cc: Lisa Belville
> Subject: [Diabetes-Talk] Suggestions for clear liquid diet
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> Hi, all.
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> I'm going to have a procedure which requires me to be on a clear liquid
> diet for just over 24 hours.  The surgeon's office gave me a list of
> juices-- white grape, apple, and orange and lemon with no pulp.   but
> that's about it.  I also can't have anything red, green, or purple, so
> that leaves out most Jell-O.  I have several pills I regularly take and
> having a mostly full stomach eliminates stomach upset, etc.  I'm
> wondering what I should do to keep my sugar under control?  Yes, it's
> only a day, but the second day is the procedure, so I won't be eating or
> drinking anything then, either.
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> Thanks for the ideas.
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> Lisa
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