Blood sugar really high before meals, low after meals?

Question

I am very confused by my readings with my home monitor. My daughter has the same exact problem (she's 7 and has very high blood sugar-having her checked for Type 1).

I've been testing for 3 weeks (I have Type 2)and my readings are fairly consistent. Fasting levels high. Very low early in morning. Low late at night. Now it's around meals that's confusing me and all the diabetic family members that I ask for advice...

About 30-60 minutes before meals, my blood sugar will be high/sometimes very high. About 30-90 minutes after meals, my blood sugar drops a lot! I'll go somewhere around 170 to 100 just from eating a small meal. Everything I've heard and read said non-diabetics and diabetics, their blood sugar increases after meals, logically. Why is mine dropping after meals. I don't take insulin or oral meds (for diabetes) and my meals are basically the same each day. I don't take any meds that interfere with blood sugar. Has anyone heard of this? I really need help! Thx

Answer 1

Man, did you get some goofy answers, or what?.... no wonder you emailed me.

Hmmm.... this is quite interesting. Exactly the opposite of how it normally goes... Wow. Unfortunately, I have no clue.... unless the food you're eating lowers blood sugar, and there are very few foods that can do that. Cinnamon, some melons, and a few herbs can help slow glucose absorbtion and assist our insulin's effectiveness, but their effect is minimal. I am very interested in exactly what you are eating, how many calories, etc.

The most likely possibility is, eating is triggering your pancreas to produce more insulin than the rest of the time. Something could be fooling the body into backing off production a few hours after eating. Read up on the glucagon, glycogen, and glucose production cycle that goes on between the pancreas and the liver... it's quite interesting. I would suspect that your problem has something to do with what you are eating and this process getting out of balance. As long as you're not going below 70 and above 170 (for too long), you shouldn't worry too much. We'll figure something out.

You didn't give me much in the way of numbers. How high? How low? Why not keep a chart throughout the day? This would be very helpful. I'm mainly interested in your fasting (morning before breakfast) and one, two, and three hour after meal readings. I'm curious about the accuracy of your meter, too. I'm also interested in your weight and how much dairy you've been on. Read my web page (below) for more on this.

Both of you might want to consider adopting a primarily vegetable diet with minimal beef and dairy. Cut out the "empty" carbs and stick with whole grains, too. Diet and exercise play a crucial role in how well our body deals with carbs and sugar. I would also recommend some supplements that are proven to help regulate blood sugar. Especially, cinnamon and alpha lipoic acid. See my webpage for more....
http://www.geocities.com/seabulls69/Type_II_Diabetes.html

I will email you with my "real" email, so we can keep in touch. I've done lots and lots of reading on this, so maybe we can figure this out together.

As far as diet not making a difference, you might want to read these before you swallow the good nurse's advice:
Milk information:
http://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2007nl/mar/dairy.htm
http://www.notmilk.com/d.html
http://www.notmilk.com/tudrmac.html
http://www.rense.com/general63/ddia.htm
http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/sn_arc99/6_26_99/fob2.htm
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002448.htm
http://www.strongbones.org/
http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v59/n3/abs/1602086a.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15910636&dopt=Abstract

As far as I'm concerned, there is no doubt that cow's milk is not good for you. Not even baby cows drink the stuff after their infancy... it's too rich. There's a ton of evidence out there proving that it's not good for you, yet even doctors continue to spread the myth that it is good for you. It's just like their wreckless dispensing of harmful medications that they know full well cure nothing. Yes, they might reduce the symptoms a little, but are they worth the side effects? Of course not. Doctors (and nurses) are human and subject to the same brainwashing that goes on day in and day out in our society.... milk is good because it has calcium and vitamin D. This drug is good because....... (the drug manufacturer says so and I make a ton of money off you by herding you out of here with another useless "remedy"). It's an incredibly well crafted belief system. Upon scrutiny, however, the whole thing unravels. I'm not asking you to believe me or her... I'm asking you to do the research yourself. Read some of Kevin Trudeau's stuff if you want an eye opener. Don't believe all of his stuff either. Gather as much information as possible from as wide a variety of sources as possible and make your own judgements. I did. Here's another tip... you can learn more about diabetes than any nurse or doctor in less than a month. Think about it.... how long did they spend on the subject in med school? A week? Two? Here's another item... how many diabetics have they cured? Personally, I put doctors and nurses in there with chiropractors and fortune tellers. It's your body that does the healing... not them.

Here's more on hyperinsulimia: http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/QA/QA94119/

It's pretty much what we all go through as we become type 2 diabetic. It's just a fancy name for insulin resistance... the precursor to type 2.

And the pancreatic tumor the good nurse is referring to is called: insulinoma: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulinoma

The trouble with insulinoma is, it's completely unpredictable and people often end up with unexplained hypoglycemic episodes. This doesn't appear to be what's happening to you. Watch your numbers very carefully throughout the day. If your numbers are consistently similar before meals (high) and after meals (low) day in and day out, you should be able to rule out insulinoma since it's claim to fame is as suggested on the webpage I linked... generally the opposite of what you are claiming happens.

I've got a buck that says you run out of money or die of old age before you find a doctor (or nurse) that can explain your symptoms.

Answer 2

Blood Sugar Before Meals

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Answer 5

Blood Sugar Before Eating

Answer 6

^Go to the doctor you might be hypoglycemic, you could have an underlying condition or maybe you need to change your medication.

The way you are supposed to test your glucose is right before a meal and two hours after, try that and see how your numbers are. Also depending on your glucose meter you may have to calibrate it, I know my strips have different numbers on the bottle so I have to change the number from time to time. I also test the strip of a new bottle with a control solution, and last look at the date on your test strips and make sure they are not past the date.

Are you eating the proper amount of carbs per meal and/or snack, again speak to your doctor and find out how many cabs you can have, and try eating 5 or 6 small meals that helps to keep your glucose stable. Good luck, I hope this helps.

Answer 7

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Answer 9

Ok maybe you are Hypoglicemic, I am, and I used to have this problem,you should go to an endocrinologist...when pancreas has an overload of sugar it just throw it away, pancreas becomes like "crazy" lol(thats what my doc told me)... in my case I could have something to eat and then minutes after faint because of low sugar, in that point its very dangerous cause you could develop serious health problems, so I visit the endocrinologist he helps me a lot, now I have a "normal" sugar levels and doing fine, since its been a long time I haven't faint.

You could find some extra Info in this link:
http://www.hypoglycemia.org/hypo.asp

hope this will help you out a lil' bit
wish you Health!

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Answer 11

Well, I guess you are now a type II ma'am. You have to go to a diabetic-doctor, a specialist on diabetes. The normal range from a non-diabetic person should be 70-140. If it falls not in this range you are ill.