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Rae17

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Sugar And Bread Posted: 11-25-06 22:33pm


Hey folks, back again i've been noticing a pattern with my hypo lately. Whenever I eat a sandwich, or have some bread, about 10 - 30 minutes later, my hypo starts acting up. Badly. Worse than it usually is. However, I can eat things like chocolate or really sugary stuff and have no symptoms at all. Why is this? I was under the impression that having too much sugar was dangerous and would cause me to crash very badly. If I remember correctly, bread can sometimes cause hypo, but why so severely? And why doesn't sugar have an effect on me like it's supposed to? Can anyone please explain? This is so confusing.

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Posted: 11-25-06 22:43pm


What happens when you eat the bread? You get tired at all? What symptoms? Also from what I have experienced that if you eat chocolate you will feel good. The next day not so bad, but 4-6 days go by and you start to feel it hard. Definitely chocolate is not good.

Rae17

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Posted: 11-25-06 23:02pm

wdiguy wrote:

what happens when you eat the bread? You get tired at all? What symptoms?

Also from what I have experienced that if you eat chocolate you will feel good. The next day not so bad, but 4-6 days go by and you start to feel it hard. Definitely chocolate is not good.

shaking and sweating is my biggest problem when I eat the bread, i'm not sure about tiredness as I was too concerned about the shaking to notice much else (plus, it was very early in the morning and I was tired anyways)

and yes, chocolate makes me feel good too. I havn't tracked what i'm like down the road as I wasn't aware it could take 4-6 days to show symptoms Shocked

so chances are, it has made me bad, but i've put it down to something else.

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Posted: 11-25-06 23:33pm


From what I learned it can take a day or two for you to get hit by it. Stan has alot of knowledge and im sure he will post something to help you out a little more.

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Posted: 11-26-06 10:06am


You know me too well. The answer is simple. When you eat the bread, which I assume is crap bread, you're giving your body a little jolt, but since it's overreacting to begin with, it comes down rather quickly. It's not all sugar is the key here. Chocolate, however, is all sugar, so when you eat it, it's covering over the symptoms of the low blood sugar while your body is overreacting and fighting to bring it back down. Case in point. When I had my gtt, the doctor foolishly told me fasting didn't matter. I was lucky it didn't screw up the test, but check this out. During the test, where they make you drink 100g of straight sugar, I actually felt very, very good. I assume my body needed more sugar, so I started drinking juice that day, but within about four I came down hard. Here's why. I finally got the test results after that, and it showed my sugar taking a severe drop within only 30 minutes. The thing is that I had enough sugar still in the system to counteract this, and then it kept shooting out insulin. When you eat something like that, it's not like all the sugar goes into your system immediately, it will be absorbed bit by bit. So, you eat the chocolate and feel good, because the body still has enough sugar in it when it tries to drop it down. Eventually, trust me, it will catch up with you hardcore. There was a woman on here, you can find her post somewhere about hypo while driving or something like that, who was treating herself by taking glucose tablets. Worked fine for awhile, and then one day... So that's why.

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Posted: 11-26-06 10:08am


Here it is: http://ehealthfor um.Com/health/topic61459.Html read it carefully! Cut and paste into browser if the link doesn't work, or look for a topic titled hypoglycemia without warning, or something like that. It's currently on page three.

Rae17

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Posted: 11-26-06 14:59pm


Thank you stan. That makes sence. I myself eat dextrose (glucose) tablets during college hours as it's inconvenient for me to leave. I guess this is a bad thing to do but i'm not sure what else I can do.

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Posted: 11-26-06 16:55pm


What you do is you say feck em. You bring your food with you, eat it during class or outside of class. Talk to your professors about it beforehand and explain the situation. They techincally have to let you eat in there because it's like a diabetic who needs to take insulin, you wouldn't tell them they can't.

tygrbabi

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Posted: 11-28-06 14:42pm


Rae, i'm sure by stan's great explanation you know that eating sugar, glucose tablets, poor quality breads is not good for you. I can assure you it will only catch up with you. I'm sorry for all the times a did things like that, as well as, eating sugar free products - that was even worse. When it caught up with me, it hit me hard and it was the most frightening experience i've ever had. Don't set yourself up for that kind of situation. It will happen when you least expect it and it's very hard to deal with. Tygrbabi

Rae17

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Posted: 11-29-06 00:51am


Tygrbabi, thank you. I do try to eat better, but it's expensive, and also hard to know what to buy. I still live at home, so my mum has to eat too. It's expensive to buy the food I need for the diet, and still get things in my mum can eat too. It's all so confusing. Would you mind sharing with me your experience of what happened when you had that bad crash? Just so I won't freak out if it happens to me.

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Posted: 11-29-06 10:58am


To address the first issue only, if you want to get better, you have to eat right, otherwise you will continue to get worse unti you wish you listened and it will be even more difficult to change things.

Rae17

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Posted: 11-30-06 03:10am

stan stepanic wrote:

to address the first issue only, if you want to get better, you have to eat right, otherwise you will continue to get worse unti you wish you listened and it will be even more difficult to change things.

i know, but we can't afford it. We tried to once, but we we're close to reaching our budget and didn't have enough food to last the week, nor things like cat food, toiletries, kitchen essentials.

I mean, blue berries were £4 for just a small box. It's terrible, but that's somerfield for ya and unfortunately, pretty much the only store we can go to.

I hope i'm not sounding ungreatful or fussy or anything here. I don't mean to, i'm just being honest and explaining my situation.

I do want to get better, but I don't know how to when we can't afford the diet... Sad

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Posted: 11-30-06 08:43am


First off, you don't have to get organic, second off, you don't have to follow it exactly as long as you eat foods in moderation based on the recommendations that fit your budget and are not on my list of foods to avoid. That's all there is to it, you need to find a way to eat better because you'll only get worse. I can't say anything else than that.

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Posted: 12-01-06 11:38am


Alright, that sounds alot easier and cheaper. So as long as I eat a balanced diet and stay away from the foods you listed as bad, that'll help me?

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Posted: 12-01-06 21:02pm


Yes, organic is preferred only because it has less toxins and is more useable by the body, more perfect, so to speak, if I can say that. It's not like you want get nutrition from regular products, it's just that it won't be as high of a quality, but you'll still get the same basic things you need. I recommend organic because removing as many toxins as possible makes the diet a whole lot better for your body, but you don't have to. Just stay away from canned foods. Frozen is perfectly fine, you can find nearly any vegetable frozen for pretty cheap most of the time.

Rae17

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Posted: 12-02-06 04:52am


Thanks alot stan. I'll try to opt for the organic stuff if I can find any in the store.

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Posted: 12-02-06 08:56am


I should add that I really only buy a few things organic: 1. Apples (i recommend this, unless you wash they with a fruit/vegetable spray because regular apples are saturated with pesiticides) 2. Lettuce (same reason) 3. Walnuts (just because, not that expensive either because I buy them in bulk) that's it, everything else I tend to get in normal form, other than meat, which I prefer to buy organic if cheap or on sale, but normally I just get "natural." as long as it was made with no antibiotics or hormones, it's fine with me, but you may not care about this.

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Posted: 12-02-06 12:10pm


Hi. I read across what you've been saying here, just to learn a few more things about hypoglicemia. Are apples, lettuces and walnuts really good? Thanks

Rae17

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Posted: 12-03-06 07:37am

stan stepanic wrote:

i should add that I really only buy a few things organic:

1. Apples (i recommend this, unless you wash they with a fruit/vegetable spray because regular apples are saturated with pesiticides)

2. Lettuce (same reason)

3. Walnuts (just because, not that expensive either because I buy them in bulk)

that's it, everything else I tend to get in normal form, other than meat, which I prefer to buy organic if cheap or on sale, but normally I just get "natural." as long as it was made with no antibiotics or hormones, it's fine with me, but you may not care about this.

i do want to buy organic food, but it's limited in the store I go to. I can rarely go to other stores as they're too far away and cost too much to get there.

I never realised that apples and lettuce had pesticides on them though :s

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Posted: 12-03-06 12:07pm


Yeah, apples are one of the worst. Keep in mind I mean green leaf lettuce, not iceburg. That kind is worthless. You should be able to find organic green leaf. It's usually not that much more, a dollar at most, which is worth it. Yes, these things are very good for hypoglycemia.