Re: High BG before Lunch? What Should I do?

[Guest guest]

Hi Clara,

When I have that problem I eat protein and a smallish amount of low GI

veggies. My bg will usually behave.

YMMV.

~a

T2, dx 2002, d&e...Byetta and split Lantus.

In a message dated 1/4/2006 3:46:54 PM US Eastern Standard Time,

burtoncl@... writes:

Hello Everyone,

When I test before lunch and it's high, should I delay

lunch and do something about it, or should I eat lunch

and then test 2 hrs after that and see what it is

then? Thanks.

Clara

[Guest guest]

Depends on what you can do. Are you using insulin or oral meds? If

insulin, which one. If oral meds, which one(s). How high is high? And

if you decide to delay lunch, do you know how long it takes for your bg

to get back to whatever number you consider " safe " ? Does your question

assume that your fasting bg and breakfast numbers were NOT high? Sorry

to answer a question with a bunch of questions, but there are lots of

variables - simple answers are usually not found here.

CarolR

Clara Burton wrote:

> Hello Everyone,

>

> When I test before lunch and it's high, should I delay

> lunch and do something about it, or should I eat lunch

> and then test 2 hrs after that and see what it is

> then? Thanks.

>

> Clara

[Guest guest]

No, I'm not on insulin or oral meds. I'm on the diet

and exercise method. In this case, my BG was 157 but

sometimes it's higher. Usually it takes a couple of

hours for it to get to a " safe " number. Also, in this

particular incident, my fasting and breakfast numbers

were not high.

Clara

--- Carol croberts@...> wrote:

> Depends on what you can do. Are you using insulin

> or oral meds? If

> insulin, which one. If oral meds, which one(s).

> How high is high? And

> if you decide to delay lunch, do you know how long

> it takes for your bg

> to get back to whatever number you consider " safe " ?

> Does your question

> assume that your fasting bg and breakfast numbers

> were NOT high? Sorry

> to answer a question with a bunch of questions, but

> there are lots of

> variables - simple answers are usually not found

> here.

>

> CarolR

>

> Clara Burton wrote:

> > Hello Everyone,

> >

> > When I test before lunch and it's high, should I

> delay

> > lunch and do something about it, or should I eat

> lunch

> > and then test 2 hrs after that and see what it is

> > then? Thanks.

> >

> > Clara

>

>

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[Guest guest]

Would exercise help to bring it down in this situation?

Sue

On Wednesday, January 4, 2006, at 04:26 PM, Clara Burton wrote:

> No, I'm not on insulin or oral meds. I'm on the diet

> and exercise method. In this case, my BG was 157 but

> sometimes it's higher. Usually it takes a couple of

> hours for it to get to a " safe " number. Also, in this

> particular incident, my fasting and breakfast numbers

> were not high.

[Guest guest]

It takes so long for my BG to come down that if I test

before lunch or some other meal and it's high, and

then I exercise, I'd have to wait about a couple of

hours before eating the meal. Then I'd be eating way

off schedule and my lunch would become my dinner or my

dinner would become my bedtime snack, etc. Drinking

water also doesn't cause my numbers to go down very

quickly either. I'm at a loss about this. It would

make me end up eating only a couple of meals a day if

I have to delay the meals for so long.

--- Sue marysue@...> wrote:

> Would exercise help to bring it down in this

> situation?

> Sue

>

> On Wednesday, January 4, 2006, at 04:26 PM, Clara

> Burton wrote:

>

> > No, I'm not on insulin or oral meds. I'm on the

> diet

> > and exercise method. In this case, my BG was 157

> but

> > sometimes it's higher. Usually it takes a couple

> of

> > hours for it to get to a " safe " number. Also, in

> this

> > particular incident, my fasting and breakfast

> numbers

> > were not high.

>

>

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[Guest guest]

At 02:36 PM 1/4/06, Clara Burton wrote:

>Hello Everyone,

>

>When I test before lunch and it's high, should I delay

>lunch and do something about it, or should I eat lunch

>and then test 2 hrs after that and see what it is

>then? Thanks.

How high? What would you " do " about it?

If I'm too high and am going to eat lunch I just calculate how much Humalog

will lower BG's to where I want them. If there are lots of carbs in lunch

for some reason, I'll calculate them in, too, otherwise not. Then I fix

lunch, take the shot, and eat. I DO check 1 and 2 hours later, though, just

to see what's happening.

sky

[Guest guest]

That's too bad. I find that if my BG is too high, I can get on the

stationary bike and ride 5-10 minutes and bring it down dramatically

most of the time. Too bad it doesn't work that way for you. The problem

is to get myself to do it, though, LOL. Sue

On Wednesday, January 4, 2006, at 05:17 PM, Clara Burton wrote:

> It takes so long for my BG to come down that if I test

> before lunch or some other meal and it's high, and

> then I exercise, I'd have to wait about a couple of

> hours before eating the meal. Then I'd be eating way

> off schedule and my lunch would become my dinner or my

> dinner would become my bedtime snack, etc. Drinking

> water also doesn't cause my numbers to go down very

> quickly either. I'm at a loss about this. It would

> make me end up eating only a couple of meals a day if

> I have to delay the meals for so long.

[Guest guest]

That's what I do, if it's high I wait til it lowers. Otherwise I found I

would stay on the high numbers continually. I think in the beginning I

was eating too often and had to eventually space out my meals a bit

longer than originally planned. If it's high before lunch chances are

after lunch it will be higher than you wanted as well, even if it only

raised a normal amount. I couldn't get out of that cycle so I started

waiting longer or exercising. It's one of those you just have to

experiment with.

>When I test before lunch and it's high, should I delay

>lunch and do something about it, or should I eat lunch

>and then test 2 hrs after that and see what it is

>then? Thanks.

>

>Clara

>

[Guest guest]

I'd start taking a hard look at oral meds, myself. Or even insulin.

D&E is only a good treatment if it works for you.

CarolR

Clara Burton wrote:

> It takes so long for my BG to come down that if I test

> before lunch or some other meal and it's high, and

> then I exercise, I'd have to wait about a couple of

> hours before eating the meal.

[Guest guest]

Clara,

I have been managing with d&e since 1997.

Since your fasting and breakfast numbers were not high (I am assuming

you are speaking of 2 hours pp test for breakfast?), then do you have

any idea what it was that caused you to be out of range before lunch?

A snack? Stress? It's good to figure that out.

Secondly, if I am too high before I need to eat .. I avoid lots of

carbs and fats. Fats keep your bgs higher longer and you need to let

them drop. So, in your case, I would probably eat something like a

slice or two of chicken/turkey/tuna with one slice of low carb bread

or a low carb tortilla. Test in a couple of hours and see if you need

a snack in case your bgs have dropped and you now need something to

boost them a bit.

Suzz, t2, d&e, dx1997

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>

> No, I'm not on insulin or oral meds. I'm on the diet

> and exercise method. In this case, my BG was 157 but

> sometimes it's higher. Usually it takes a couple of

> hours for it to get to a " safe " number. Also, in this

> particular incident, my fasting and breakfast numbers

> were not high.

>

> Clara