Cottage cheese spikes my glucose 1hr later. What’s wrong w me?

(Katherine) #1

I guess I’m sensitive to dairy :sob: which makes me so sad. I’ve known this via weight loss for years now. But finally glucose confirmed. T0 82, T60 93. Does anyone else in the world have this? This is the highest spike I get from almost any food so far. Sensitive people. I wonder what else spikes you? Does anything help? Cinnamon, vinegar… etc

(Doug) #2

Wow, I am amazed! 82 to 93 isn’t much, in my opinion, but still - it sure seems unusual that cheese would raise it more than almost any other food… I’ve never tested that much or consistently, but figure that just thinking about thinking about food probably sends me to 110 or 120… :neutral_face:

Sorry I’m no help, and this is an intriguing question.

#3

That’s not what I’d call a spike really. It’s perfectly normal for blood sugar to increase when you eat. Unless you have symptoms of a sensitivity I wouldn’t be concerned.

(Allie) #4

That’s not a spike, it’s a normal reaction to eating food and certainly cannot be used to self diagnose as having an issue with dairy.

#5

Ummmm… You went up 11 points! That’s BARELY even a response, let alone a SPIKE! When you go from 82 to 170… then start wondering if you have a problem with what you ate because THAT would be a spike.

Eating moves our numbers around, no way around it. Don’t make yourself paranoid and don’t fall victim to the re-definition of what a glucose “spike” is. It’s a big problem in the keto world sadly. You’re good!

(Bob M) #6

That’s not even within the error of the meter. This is a spike:

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That’s after 75 grams of glucose for an oral glucose tolerance test with insulin. Both the lab and I were supposed to take a reading about an hour into it, but the lab and I only got readings just before then 2 hours after. 7.5=135. I think I hit near 200. I could not keep my eyes open, and kept falling asleep. The 5.4 (97.2) occurs about 7:30am.

(Katherine) #7

Ok. Well, it’s enough of a change that I don’t lose weight. When I eat foods that put me into that range… I wake up about 70. If I get into 90s in the day through food (and not working out) I don’t lose weight. After repeated tests. Not errors on the meter. So I can’t retract the word spike, but a bump like this shouldn’t happen from cottage cheese — says the diabetic blood testing world. I was looking for people with that sensitivity to see if they had any ideas.

#8

No, it’s not. That’s the whole point. You could literally NOT eat anything, and run in place for a minute or two and possibly move it that much. Our blood sugar is NOT supposed to ignore foods. That’s not how this works. Your problem is something else.

Of course it should! You ate food! Your body needs to do something with it. Insulin is at play ALL the time, keto or not.

Is that the same world that thinks diabetes can’t be fixed and that the best course of action is to continually eat foods that makes the problem worse, then inject a bunch of insulin to fix it???

Are you tracking your food intake or workouts? Do you have anything other than an 11 point glucose raise to start correlating what’s going on? Have you ever posted a food log here? Did you do years of near no fat hypo-caloric diets and trash your metabolism? Whatever it is, it’s not that 11 points doing that to you.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #9

You may be more highly insulin-resistant than other people. The remedy is to further limit your carbohydrate intake until the insulin resistance is reversed.