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I know with me, for at least my primary she is excited for the surgery. My sugar is elevated and im not running into any issues yet. Knock on wood

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I know with me' date=' for at least my primary she is excited for the surgery. My sugar is elevated and im not running into any issues yet. Knock on wood[/quote']

Reason I'm asking bc mines for whatever reason during pre surgical it sky rocketed more then usual- and I can almost know the exact reason why it did. It was 4am and I woke up to get Water, note I never drink tap Water and I had ran out of bottle water. I took a drink of Gatorade at 4am not remembering my testing was at 7 this morning, well I got a call from my pcp basically freaking out and wondering what happened?! That I never had it that high- so it's mandatory for me to get it down it least to what I had it. So I'm now worried and I feel so stupid bc this is my fault, all of it. I don't know what to do- today is my first day of preop diet, and today I really felt that I wanted that cigarette after I've quit smoking 2 weeks ago, and literally devour my fridge, aye this stinks lol

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It's tough love, but veggies and Proteins will bring down ur sugars. And Gatorade will definitely make it spike!!! Sooo much sugar lol. How high was it?

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My doctor won't do the surgery if my blood sugar levels are high. I was given insulin and take my regular pills to bring down my sugar, but trust me your sugar will come down with this liquid diet. I had to drink apple juice today at the dietician office since my sugar dropped to low. You should be good to go by surgery.

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It's tough love' date=' but veggies and Proteins will bring down ur sugars. And Gatorade will definitely make it spike!!! Sooo much sugar lol. How high was it?[/quote']

Usually the highest ill have it is 199-215, doc said they can work with that, it went out to 327, it's never been that high. I was crying the whole day lol. I'm determine to lower it! Idc if all I do after work is work out! Lol

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My doctor won't do the surgery if my blood sugar levels are high. I was given insulin and take my regular pills to bring down my sugar' date=' but trust me your sugar will come down with this liquid diet. I had to drink apple juice today at the dietician office since my sugar dropped to low. You should be good to go by surgery.[/quote']

You has yours done already? I'm on 4 pills a day already- I hope so bc I have less then two weeks for surgery I'm running out of time! Lol

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Hi omfgmelly, U should be just fine. I'm type II an had A1c of 9.1 in jan. right at the same day I had app. with pre-op. They just told me to work on it but no official diet. Had labwork done last week an A1c is now 6.4! Down 21lbs. since surgery 3/11/13. Don't stress out too much, just do the best you can too control it. good luck :)

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Hi omfgmelly' date=' U should be just fine. I'm type II an had A1c of 9.1 in jan. right at the same day I had app. with pre-op. They just told me to work on it but no official diet. Had labwork done last week an A1c is now 6.4! Down 21lbs. since surgery 3/11/13. Don't stress out too much, just do the best you can too control it. good luck :)[/quote']

Mines was about 10.9? I think last time I checked. In just so nervous but thank u so much for the advice! How much have u lost so far?

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You has yours done already? I'm on 4 pills a day already- I hope so bc I have less then two weeks for surgery I'm running out of time! Lol

No I haven't had my surgery yet. This is my second day on my liquid diet and my sugar already dropped real low and I was always in the 200's. I just had my A1c in march and it was 9.2. I'm stopping insulin today and just taking my 2 pills for diabetes. The way things are going looks like I will be off all meds before my surgery. I believe you and me have the same surgery date of May 1st. If your sugars don't come down they might just give you insulin at the hospital before surgery. Are you on a liquid pre op diet?

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Hi , my son has type 1 diabetes and you could have elevated sugar due to stress , I know it raises his

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That is so true about the stress raising sugar levels. I had no idea that could happen, but when I went in for my EGD surgery I checked my sugar at home and it was 184, but when they checked it at the hospital it was 218 and I didn't have anything to eat obviously due to the surgery. My heart was racing and I was having major anxiety Nd the nurse told me that my sugars can just be high due to stress.

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Absolutely they can my son was in an accident a couple of years ago an hasn't eaten for a few hours while in emerg , I was worried they were low but no sky high, crazy how it works

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That is so true about the stress raising sugar levels. I had no idea that could happen' date=' but when I went in for my EGD surgery I checked my sugar at home and it was 184, but when they checked it at the hospital it was 218 and I didn't have anything to eat obviously due to the surgery. My heart was racing and I was having major anxiety Nd the nurse told me that my sugars can just be high due to stress.[/quote']

I really hope this is the situation; I am on pre op- 6 small meals a day- shake, Jello, shake, yoghurt, Soup and maybe another jello... How bout urself? I went to sleep early bc I felt I was going to eat the whole fridge lol

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Absolutely they can my son was in an accident a couple of years ago an hasn't eaten for a few hours while in emerg ' date=' I was worried they were low but no sky high, crazy how it works[/quote']

That's very interesting to find out- I hope it doesn't chose to sky rocket Saturday at my pcp, that will determine if I can even continue to have this surgery since they were so high at pre surgical testing :/

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