ALMONDS

[Guest guest]

We've probably touched on the subject of almonds before, but I wanted a

little refresher from anyone on the board on this. I hear that almonds are

good for controlling blood sugar in diabetics, but how do they accomplish

this? I ask this because I decided the other night to try almonds as a snack

instead of, say, a piece of cheese or a piece of lunch meat. But

interestingly, my sugar dropped to 53! Fortunately, I had the good sense

even then to check my sugar to confirm my feelings and I was almost right on

in my guess of about 55-60. I'm going to try almonds again over the next

couple of days to see if this repeats itself or to rule out a fluke.

Hopefully there's not something else going on though.

On another note though, I did have a weird fluke happen in mid afternoon

today with no apparent reason for it, where I started feeling really queazy.

It was all I could do to even think of checking my sugar, and when I did it

read 35. I checked it a second time on a different finger, and it was 37.

While the weather and humidity have been changing a little, I don't see

anything drastic for that to happen, it just did out of the blue. I remedied

the problem with a glucose tablet and within 10 minutes, I was fine.

Obviously, I'm going to mention this to my doctor next time I see him as

this is abnormal, especially for me, since for the most part, my sugars are

extremely well controlled. Am I right in assuming that we type 2's can have

occasional weird flukes like this for no reason, or does this portend to

other issues I might have to be dealing with?

Luckily in this case I was home, but even if I had been out somewhere, I do

always take a few glucose tablets with me for any sudden drops like that,

and always carry a couple of metformin and glyburide pills. You can never be

too careful.

Bill Powers