[mzroni]

Hi

I have a question for ya'll...Ok the dr has started me on lantis 10 units aday right now..been on it a couple weeks..my fasting has dropped it is wonderful..it is now between 100 to 110 i am so happy it was always 170 to 240 something..i am on actos plus met twice aday also..and doing the low carb thing and working my tail off so i am getting the exercise and what not..but my thing is..how can i just eat a salad and it wasnt loaded with all the "bad" stuff..just your basic garden salad..my sugar went from 95 to 381!! and it stayed there it dipped to 200 sometime a few hours later but i dont get this..how can this be??

[Keezheekoni]

Tomatoes affect me negatively. I assume that because you're low carbing that you had dressing on the side...but was it a high carb dressing?

I don't much like salads anymore. They've become too boring and eating a tomato, for me, is a bad thing.

[shabbie6247]

can you name the things in the salad?

[mzroni]

It was rather a boring salad..and no tomatoes i dont like them..lettuce,,,cucumbers,,,green onions...cheese..just a bit..and then 3 grams of blue cheese dressing...it was not a big salad just a small bowl..but i did not think it was enough for this rise..i dont understand what is going on here..i could understand if i was junkin out but quit that too.. so i dont know...i go back to the dr on the 6th of sept..maybe i can get some answers as to why?? and what i am not doing right here

[Penny]

Salads and tomatoes do now hurt my BS at all....most salad dressings are low carb, too. Sometimes a meal I had hours earlier will cause a rise for me. Also, if I am not feeling well or have a bunch of stress. Last night I ate a plate full of fried catfish (YUM), a very small serving of slaw. I was 78, before I ate, I took a large injection of novolog, and my Metformin. 3 hours later, I was 123. Went to bed without eating anything else, woke up at 190. Who knows why, just happens sometimes. Keep checking, I have had good numbers all day, without much correction.

[owlyn]

Okay, what else did you have? What did you have to drink?

[mzroni]

I had the walmart brand crystal light pink lemonade..no carbs or sugar..and i know stress can wreak havoc on my system also but none here lately

thanks so much i knew someone could help me figure this out because i thought i was doing am doing right low carbs and sugar free stuff but now i am thinking this is nuts

[Penny]

We all have days when the numbers are messed up for no reason. One time I was very low at the grocery, I ate a couple of strawberries and tested. and I was very high, in about 10 minutes. Some kind soul on this forum told me, I probably had strawberry juice on my fingers. Another Dear person on this forum said sometimes it has something to do with how the planets are lined up. One thing that helped me more than anything was when our Dear Duck told me to drink lots of water. When something happens with no good explanation, I just test more often, and wait it out.

[Keezheekoni]

It's probably the way the moon is positioned in the sky...!

I swear, that's my answer for everything these days. That, or sunspots!

[mzroni]

i have to agree..it is the sunspots...it has been hot so hot in TN so maybe its the sun and where it is located

[BlueSky]

Originally Posted by mzroni

..... i just eat a salad and it wasnt loaded with all the "bad" stuff..just your basic garden salad..my sugar went from 95 to 381!! and it stayed there it dipped to 200 sometime a few hours later but i dont get this..how can this be??

Sounds like you need insulin at mealtimes too.

[notme]

I am wondering what you had for the meal before you ate this salad. If this salad was a lunch salad, what was your breakfast that morning? Was the breakfast full of bacon or other high protein foods and eggs? A lot of times fatty foods for a meal can come back to haunt you several hours after you eat. It may not have been the salad that was the culprit, but the meal you ate earlier in the day.

[Cyborg]

Originally Posted by mzroni

Hi

I have a question for ya'll...Ok the dr has started me on lantis 10 units aday right now..been on it a couple weeks..my fasting has dropped it is wonderful..it is now between 100 to 110 i am so happy it was always 170 to 240 something..i am on actos plus met twice aday also..and doing the low carb thing and working my tail off so i am getting the exercise and what not..but my thing is..how can i just eat a salad and it wasnt loaded with all the "bad" stuff..just your basic garden salad..my sugar went from 95 to 381!! and it stayed there it dipped to 200 sometime a few hours later but i dont get this..how can this be??

Salad dressing, protein, hidden carbs, etc... can all contribute to a salad increasing your bg.

[owlyn]

Originally Posted by mzroni

I had the walmart brand crystal light pink lemonade..no carbs or sugar..and i know stress can wreak havoc on my system also but none here lately

Notme has a good point- what did you have for breakfast? And what is the carb count on the dressing? I kind of doubt the dressing is the culprit- you would have had to use a lot of it, but still...

[xMenace]

Originally Posted by notme

I am wondering what you had for the meal before you ate this salad. If this salad was a lunch salad, what was your breakfast that morning? Was the breakfast full of bacon or other high protein foods and eggs? A lot of times fatty foods for a meal can come back to haunt you several hours after you eat. It may not have been the salad that was the culprit, but the meal you ate earlier in the day.

Or lack of a prior meal. When you fast, simply putting food in the gut will cause a liver dump. You don't get 381's from bacon, salad dressing, or cheese cubes. A 300pt rise is equal to about 60gms of carbs, Liver dump for sure.