I did some reading up on digestive enzymes (amylase, lipase, and protease, in particular), and justified taking them for two reasons:
1. As you age, your enzyme production declines; and
2. As I had a gastric bypass, no doubt, that decreased my digestive enzyme production (along with my HCL production.
Well. LESSON LEARNED!
Amylase supplementation does NOT play nice with my reactive hypoglycemia. And fortunately I had the foresight to zap a blood glucose reading about 3 days into this experiment.
9/18 I started the supplement.
9/21 I started feeling like shit. I took a glucose reading and have continued to take readings (and being very very alarmed by it).
9/24 Was the last supplement I took.
How high is too high?
Well, my normal fasting glucose level is around 92-96.
This morning it was 141. Two hours after my first meal it only dropped down to 121. For me, this IS "alarming."
Right now I'm worried about whether it caused a cascade effect, triggering something in my pancreas. Only time will tell if my levels will revert back to my norm.
In the meantime, I zapped an email to my endo (Yes, the one who is retiring), and I'm hoping he'll give me a QUICK reply back to reassure me.
I've also zapped emails to a friend who is an RN, a friend who is a PA, and another friend who is an MD, all hoping one of them will reply and put my mind at ease.
My chiropractor and I always have conversations about supplements we're both taking, in a way, we're both comparing notes. And I mentioned to him about the glucose readings and asked him if HE personally thought the enzymes could be the culprit, or if I should just focus on lipase, since I lack a gall bladder. And he didn't see how it could impact my glucose--but then again, I KNOW MY ERROR, in asking a chiropractor about endocrine issues. Lesson learned.
And now I wait, and hope I didn't damage what I've managed to either achieve or maintain after my bypass.
1. As you age, your enzyme production declines; and
2. As I had a gastric bypass, no doubt, that decreased my digestive enzyme production (along with my HCL production.
Well. LESSON LEARNED!
Amylase supplementation does NOT play nice with my reactive hypoglycemia. And fortunately I had the foresight to zap a blood glucose reading about 3 days into this experiment.
9/18 I started the supplement.
9/21 I started feeling like shit. I took a glucose reading and have continued to take readings (and being very very alarmed by it).
9/24 Was the last supplement I took.
How high is too high?
Well, my normal fasting glucose level is around 92-96.
This morning it was 141. Two hours after my first meal it only dropped down to 121. For me, this IS "alarming."
Right now I'm worried about whether it caused a cascade effect, triggering something in my pancreas. Only time will tell if my levels will revert back to my norm.
In the meantime, I zapped an email to my endo (Yes, the one who is retiring), and I'm hoping he'll give me a QUICK reply back to reassure me.
I've also zapped emails to a friend who is an RN, a friend who is a PA, and another friend who is an MD, all hoping one of them will reply and put my mind at ease.
My chiropractor and I always have conversations about supplements we're both taking, in a way, we're both comparing notes. And I mentioned to him about the glucose readings and asked him if HE personally thought the enzymes could be the culprit, or if I should just focus on lipase, since I lack a gall bladder. And he didn't see how it could impact my glucose--but then again, I KNOW MY ERROR, in asking a chiropractor about endocrine issues. Lesson learned.
And now I wait, and hope I didn't damage what I've managed to either achieve or maintain after my bypass.
