Please know, that in my mind the OC knows everything.
With that being said, I have a couple questions I would like to ask. This is the kind of stuff that rolls around my brain sometimes.
1) I eat two things. One item is very quick to digest, the other is very slow. What happens? Does it digest at a mixed speed – like the quick is speeding up the slow and the slow is slowing down the quick? Or does it digest in the order it was eaten?
I would think that it kind of all gets mixed up in my stomach. The slow stuff slowing down the digestion of the faster stuff. But what about when you eat something like ice cream, go low, eat some glucose tabs, and have your BG come back up? Shouldn’t the ice cream slow the glucose tabs?
2) This question comes from one of my favorite co-workers. What is with having to calibrate your glucose meters? I mean, I have done it for always. As long as I can remember. And I know that if you don’t have it calibrated correctly, that the results can be inaccurate.
But why? Is it something about the chemical process? What is it about the process that requires us to put in the code, or the chip, or the calibration strip?
To address your first question, I don’t necessarily have definitive answers, but I have my suspicions. When you eat, food is basically chewed and the tiny bits end up in your digestive track. There, everything is digested collectively, and having more slowly digested carbs or fats in with more rapidly digested foods can slow the process down, although I believe it depends on the individual and what they eat. For example, I have seldom found that small amounts of fats (such as cheese) slow my metabolism at all … a ham & cheese sandwhich hits my blood glucose levels as… Read more »
um, I can’t remember the last time I calibrated my meter… I always thought it was more for the user to check to make sure the strips were in the correct range. They always have been. I guess I might calibrate if I thought something was wrong with the meter. But I don’t know if I have any of that calibration juice. I use an OneTouch Ultra.
(I don’t recommend doing this, I guess.)
These questions are hard ::thinking cap is on:: Maybe they can be answered when there is a cure?
You always have such good questions. I have absolutely no answer for you but the people above seem to have had good ones.=) I hope you are having a great week.
Oh gracious, these people are so damn smart, knowledgeable and informed. One of the things I love about the OC.NOthing to add to the answers except it takes me back to the mid 70’s, when they told you to “eat a candybar” if you felt low. First, I never knew if I was truly low, because there was no bg monitoring. And, if you did a urine test, you could have spilled sugar a half hour earlier and then be crashing and you’d think you were still high……………my goodness, it’s amazing those of us from that era are still here.Maybe… Read more »