Being a Type I diabetic, I have always relied on juices, mainly OJ and grape juice to bring my blood sugar within normal limits. I can become, without warning...unresponsive, quickly! I need sugar to bring my blood sugar up or my husband has to call EMS! So many times I can't count. I love my pure Motts applesauce. No sugar. Just water and Vit C. Love it! I eat fresh juicy Georgia peaches, and no problem. I love fresh cherries but they jack up by blood sugar. I like honey dew melon, cantaloupe, raspberries, and frozen mango for Smoothies. I drink a glucose shot filled with natural and artificial flavoring, D glucose, citric acid, natural sodium, sodium benzoate, with red and blue and dye.That brings me back to normal, quickly. I buy it at Wal-Mart. It's cheap. I was reading about your article on fruit and fruit juices and was concerned. What does a diabetic do to maintain within normal blood sugar levels?
I have noticed since I take Cholestyramine, thanks to y'all, that I have no diarrhea, but my well-formed Poop floats. That means I am not getting enough fat into my system and my hair is straw. I take CREON. Can't live without it.
I want to heal my pitiful Gut. It needs a break. Any diabetics on here that can help? Plus I have Brain Fog. I've always liked to write and been a decent speller, but my Gut, the second brain is in control. I can't spell and my grammar and syntax has taken a beating. Thanks, Dorothy
To Tex- fruit, MC, and diabetes
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Hi Dorothy,
I'm not sure what I wrote that causes you to be concerned, but you have to remember that I usually write from the viewpoint of most MC patients. Type 1 diabetics are definitely not most MC patients (although quite a few of us have to deal with this issue). Because the consequences of making a mistake can be severe, I would assume that treating diabetes takes precedence over treating MC. I'm certainly no expert on treating diabetes, so if you have a routine that works well, I would stick with it.
Fructose is unique among sugars, in that it doesn't provoke an insulin response (because it's processed by the liver, not the digestive system). For all I know, that may be important for a type 1 patient, but I don't know enough about it to know that for a fact. As many members as we have who are treating diabetes, I would hope that some of them will chime in here to help out.
It often takes a couple of years after MC is in remission for the brain fog (and fatigue) to resolve. I don't know if you read the last MCF newsletter, but I'm hoping that magnesium threonate will help to resolve brain fog. You can download a copy of the newsletter at the link below:
https://www.microscopiccolitisfoundatio ... 762370.pdf
or read it online here:
https://app.robly.com/archive?id=3dfd5e ... f57&v=true
As long as you're observing the necessary precautions with time intervals regarding meals, taking supplements, and medications; and taking the cholestyramine, you should be OK. If you take it too close together, though, the cholestyramine will sequester a high percentage of nutrients, medications, supplements, etc., and you'll lose them.
I hope this helps.
Tex
I'm not sure what I wrote that causes you to be concerned, but you have to remember that I usually write from the viewpoint of most MC patients. Type 1 diabetics are definitely not most MC patients (although quite a few of us have to deal with this issue). Because the consequences of making a mistake can be severe, I would assume that treating diabetes takes precedence over treating MC. I'm certainly no expert on treating diabetes, so if you have a routine that works well, I would stick with it.
Fructose is unique among sugars, in that it doesn't provoke an insulin response (because it's processed by the liver, not the digestive system). For all I know, that may be important for a type 1 patient, but I don't know enough about it to know that for a fact. As many members as we have who are treating diabetes, I would hope that some of them will chime in here to help out.
It often takes a couple of years after MC is in remission for the brain fog (and fatigue) to resolve. I don't know if you read the last MCF newsletter, but I'm hoping that magnesium threonate will help to resolve brain fog. You can download a copy of the newsletter at the link below:
https://www.microscopiccolitisfoundatio ... 762370.pdf
or read it online here:
https://app.robly.com/archive?id=3dfd5e ... f57&v=true
As long as you're observing the necessary precautions with time intervals regarding meals, taking supplements, and medications; and taking the cholestyramine, you should be OK. If you take it too close together, though, the cholestyramine will sequester a high percentage of nutrients, medications, supplements, etc., and you'll lose them.
I hope this helps.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
I kind of had the same question, so I am pleased that I could find your post here, Dorothy, and your response, Tex. Thank you!
Dorothy, I am also a Type 1 Diabetic (into my 30th year) and always need to have something handy for the inevitable low. As I am in the middle of one helluva flare, I am staying home, so can always get some juice or apple juice or canned pears here. I am not sure if I will use my usual Dex 4 when I am well enough to safely leave the safety of home again--maybe I will just keep some apple juice around.
Curiously, my blood sugars have never been better. I am having lifetime best blood sugars (including a few consecutive days where I was 100% in range--a first for me in all these years). I guess the elimination diet is good for many things.
Anyway, if you ever want to bounce some T1 things off me, I am here and would be happy to chime in (with my very limited experience in the MC world). And hopefully I can call on you every once in a while, too.
Dorothy, I am also a Type 1 Diabetic (into my 30th year) and always need to have something handy for the inevitable low. As I am in the middle of one helluva flare, I am staying home, so can always get some juice or apple juice or canned pears here. I am not sure if I will use my usual Dex 4 when I am well enough to safely leave the safety of home again--maybe I will just keep some apple juice around.
Curiously, my blood sugars have never been better. I am having lifetime best blood sugars (including a few consecutive days where I was 100% in range--a first for me in all these years). I guess the elimination diet is good for many things.
Anyway, if you ever want to bounce some T1 things off me, I am here and would be happy to chime in (with my very limited experience in the MC world). And hopefully I can call on you every once in a while, too.
Hi cathmay,
Welcome to the group. In most cases, I believe a low-carb diet is the key to preventing and controlling blood sugar levels. I have no idea whether this might work for type 1 cases, but in a lot of type 2 cases, diabetes can be controlled by diet alone, if a low-carb diet is followed.
Again, welcome aboard, and please feel free to ask anything.
Tex
Welcome to the group. In most cases, I believe a low-carb diet is the key to preventing and controlling blood sugar levels. I have no idea whether this might work for type 1 cases, but in a lot of type 2 cases, diabetes can be controlled by diet alone, if a low-carb diet is followed.
Again, welcome aboard, and please feel free to ask anything.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Thanks, Tex. Yes, low carb seems to be working better for my diabetes management for sure. It perhaps shows a lot about my stubbornness that until now, I have been unwilling to go that route, despite the recommendations of many on my journey. But, with the desperation that comes with this flare, I am willing to do anything at all.
I have taken some time to write my future self a note about how wretched I have been feeling, so that if I begin to lose my motivation to continue with this change, I can look it over and remind myself of what it was like.
So grateful to have found this site and some hope.
Warmly,
Catherine
I have taken some time to write my future self a note about how wretched I have been feeling, so that if I begin to lose my motivation to continue with this change, I can look it over and remind myself of what it was like.
So grateful to have found this site and some hope.
Warmly,
Catherine