Anybody know what's going on when the fastin Bg reading is low, then 3 hours later the reading rises - with out breaking the fast(nothing eaten)?
This has happened to me several times as I was going to an exam after being told to fast the night before. I usually manage a 10 hr fast before such events. Any Ideas?
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Margo, If you are using a lot of muscle, then perhaps you are experiencing a release of lactic acid from your muscles. When you lift weights, small tears occur in the muscles. These small tears release lactic acid into
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bloodstream, which in turns raises your sugars for (I think, not sure)
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an hour. Of course the benefits of the exercise outweigh the short
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rise in the sugars. If your sugars return to more normal numbers after
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relatively short period of time, then perhaps this is what is happening. Steph
Stephy i love your explaination about latic acid. i didnt know lactic acid causes blood sugar levels to rise. hmm i wonder if the blood buffers i used to drink to reduced the pain of lactic acid would help. i guess that depends on if they reduce lactic acid or just reduce the pain. something to think about hmmm. Tom
It's also about as valid as "the giant Ya-Wa-Hoo deity sneaks down and sticks a syringe of glucose in my butt, knowing that my ass hurts so much I won't notice".
Seriously, lactic acid is not stored in sacs in your muscles. It's produced by normal activity of your muscles when you exercise, and there are lots of docs about it all over the web.
But are you taking glucophage? I seem to remember some oddness with Glucophage and high levels of lactic acid from heavy exercise.
Thanks J.C.... for that link and insight. I think that I will need to adjust my nocturnal intake a bit, but it will be painless 🙂
an analogy:
this mechanism might be part of the classic fight-or-flight syndrome that we mammals have relied on to such advantage over the millenia; an increase in available fuel at a critical time from reserves that are not obvious - - could this also be the source of the upset mother's strength to lift the car off her offspring?
Take Care and thanks,
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I'new here...bear with me!
Anybody know what's going on when the fastin Bg reading is low, then 3
hours
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later the reading rises - with out breaking the fast(nothing eaten)?
This has happened to me several times as I was going to an exam after
being
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told to fast the night before. I usually manage a 10 hr fast before such events. Any Ideas?
Thanks for the info Rat...That makes sense - it's like your body lives off its fat in a crisis, I guess
I suppose you could look at it that way if you want. I tend to think of it this way. Your liver stores an emergency supply of glucose which you can use when you need it. When you eat, the glucose that comes from that meal goes to two places. 1) your digestive tract, and 2) some of it is diverted to your liver for storage for possible use later.
