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Originally Posted by MizKitty
That's very good news, Lottadata! Your surgeon is probably used to diabetics being slow healers. (which they probably are while eating the recommended high carb ADA death diet).
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My surgeon is young and enthusiastic for the low carb diet, which was really a first for me when dealing with doctors. Some of the low carb diet books made it sound like it might be necessary to raise carbs a bit for wound healing, but when I asked her if I should raise my carbs above a low carb level she told me NOT to.
When I went in for surgery though, the nurse thought my 88 blood sugar reading was "low" and they insisted on hooking me up to a lactate drip and raising the bg up to 139 during the surgery. Nothing I could do about it. The anesthesiologist insisted and I figured a few hours at 139 wouldn't kill me.
I seem to have lost a couple pounds too, thanks to the very low carb diet combined with no artificial anything. Hard to tell if it is real or glycogen.
Most interestingly, my blood pressure is so normal I can't take any of my BP meds. I'm one of those oddballs whose blood pressure has been known to go UP when eating Bernstein, so this was a surprise.
OTOH, as always happens when I do more than a few weeks on a very low carb diet, I'm finding myself getting hungry after eating, even though my blood sugar is well controlled. This has been a repeatable phenomenon and is the reason I always go back to eating more carbs with insulin rather than almost no carbs without. I seem to need 1 or 2 units of insulin with my meals to do something that keeps me from getting hungry.
But for now I'm sticking with this diet--until the 6 week mark--because it does seem to be doing the trick for healing.