Tue, Mar-10-09, 06:37
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Senior Member
Posts: 814
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Plan: Mostly General
Stats: 235/235/170
BF:
Progress: 0%
Location: Blacksburg, Virginia
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Originally Posted by M Levac
The reason your blood sugar drops is not because you use it up. Instead, it's because you still produce too much insulin from the carbs you ate. Imagine you're a diabetic type 1 and you can't produce any insulin. It's your job to measure, or estimate, how much carbs you eat, and to inject the appropriate amount of insulin to cover it. But oops, you inject too much. The insulin takes care of the carbs you eat alright but since you injected too much, it will lower blood sugar further than intended. Well, that's what your pancreas is doing. It's producing enough insulin to cover the carbs, and then some more.
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That's right, I'd forgotten about that! It's been so long since I was hypoglycemic I'd forgotten about the insulin factor. I was used to managing things with hypoglycemia, but since I've become prediabetic I'm finding things are a bit more difficult to adjust.
The reason I was thinking in terms of how much sugar was in the blood stream is the fact that my diabetes education teacher told us that after eating we should move in some way, shape, or form, for 20 minutes. For some that's walking, for her wheelchair bound or bed ridden patients it's doing something as simple as wiggling your hand for 20 minutes. The whole idea is that movement helps get out what sugar is in the blood stream, if I remember her class correctly. That's why I was thinking of exercise in that aspect, and why I was worrying if I was eating enough carbs in the morning. You see, right after I have breakfast that's when I go walk, but I think a simple apple will give me just the right amount of carbs to handle the amount of walking I do.
For instance, at 175 I'd start feeling my BS drop when I was hypoglycemic. I'd get the usual symptoms, but now with the prediabetes and adding in walking I'm getting symptoms at 95 instead. Where before I could handle walking without issue being on a regular diet, not low carb.
I'll definately talk to my Dr. about this on my next visit with her.
Last edited by LisaAC : Tue, Mar-10-09 at 20:37.
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