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(DALE M PHILLIP'S) #1

Ate a Poorboy salad, turkey , lettuce, avocado, jalapenos, mustard, mayo, pepper jack cheese, sprouts, cucumber, olives, tomatoes.
Checked my blood sugar= 190 glucose!!!
What did I do wrong???
120 glucose this morning
Help, please!!!

(bulkbiker) #2

Did the mayo taste sweet and how long after eating did you test?

(Lisa) #3

Do you normally test after eating, and what would a normal post-prandial reading be for you? It’s normal for the reading to be higher after eating; how much higher varies, but you were starting with a slightly elevated fasting BG (if 120 was fasting?).

(Paul H) #4

As with most things it’s probably a combination of things… I have experienced the same thing with a spike much higher than expected. I am thinking the AM Dawn kicked in after the first test. Mustard, Mayo, Cheese, Turkey, Avocado, Tomatoes all can cause a spike albeit usually short term. Did you make the salad yourself? Sometimes toothpaste and mouth wash can also create spike… Combined…budda bing… It sucks I know. Try testing again before the meal and then 1 and 2 hours after to clarify next time. You be fine… Keep working it.

(DALE M PHILLIP'S) #5

I forgot to add, I had mickey D’s at 530am sausage and egg McMuffin, w/o the muffin. I tested one hour after eating the salad, at 2pm.
Mayo tasted normal. Checked my sugar three hours later, and down to 135.
I did forget my metformin today, but wasn’t expecting any thing like this.
How can I stay in ketosis if my sugar goes so high after eating?

(DALE M PHILLIP'S) #6

My normal blood sugar before starting the keto is around 160-200, but I was eating carbs.
Anybody know what my glucose should be when I’m in ketosis??? With being a diabetic??
Thanks allot guys for the quick response and encouragement!!
I’m just freaking out a little bit :blush::blush:

(Bunny) #7

This might help!

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(Consensus is Politics) #8

When I was diagnosed with T2DM my BG was 594. A1c was 11.8%.

Metformin and ADA diet was managing to keep my BG in the 200’s. After six weeks of that I went Keto.

24 hours later my BG was under 100, and rarely goes over that. There have been a few times when it has gone high, but thats when I ate too many carbs, probably pushing between 50 grams to 75 or so.

Typically I eat as close to zero carbs as possible. This keeps my BG in the 70’s to 80’s. After a big keto meal, maybe as high as 100. Rarely above that.

Missing metformin seems to have little effect on my BG. I have read in several places that metformin helps heal insulin resistance, so I continue to take it.

(Paul H) #9

Great Article Bunny! I admit while my need to get up and pee or drink the usual 3+ bottles of water has gone and my sleep is somewhat better I still find myself waking up every 4-5 hours and not falling back to sleep as expected. I do have some stress from work and moving back into single life recently. In addition I posted earlier about whether my meds were actually helping at all. Thinking I may drop them again because I dropped all meds for 6+ months and ate like a crazy man…when I went back to the Dr and did my fasting blood test my AC1 was much higher as expected but, everything else was fine…so not sure how much they are really helping.

I did a little test over the last couple days and stopped taking any meds… I have never had any negative reactions to the meds fortunately… Before this I dropped my Metformin from 2000mg daily to 1000mg. Well after the last couple days my numbers are a little higher so I do think they help at this point. So I think I am getting a little ahead of myself here and will now continue to take my meds as prescribed until my next Dr appt in a month. This will make my Dr happy, but I do plan on dropping some whether he likes it or not…(shhh don’t you guys tell him) and seeing how things go in subsequent blood work. I am considering changing to a more keto friendly Dr and Dr Eric Westman has an office a couple hours away.

#10

You may be one of those people who have elevated glucagon (the hormone that opposes insulin) in addition to high insulin. Decreasing the insulin allows your body access to fat stores so your liver can create glucose and ketones. If your glucagon is still high, you’ll get elevated glucose readings until if/when you reach a more stable state.