Ellen K. wrote:

> As for managing my diabetes over the holiday, it was ok although not
> ideal, but considering this was my first holiday since diagnosis I
> think I shouldn't expect more than a learning experience. I
> completely skipped dinner the second night, I just wasn't up for it.
> I'm starting to understand a little more about what adjustments I
> have to make, one of which is that I think I have to eat less overall
> at each holiday meal to keep the meals around the same size as
> non-holiday ones, which means smaller portions if I want to eat all
> the dishes.

Big success than, congratulations.
Very nice that you found a few tweaks that makes living with your condition
more acceptable

I do remember that I got scared a lot after my dx. I had never been
seriously ill in my life uptill then. But, after a while I found ways to
continue my life with very little unacceptable restrictions.

> One interesting point was that while I happily did *not*
> get any giant spike after the half-matzo-containing meals (this time
> I slathered them with margarine and after the first meal I also
> included a hardboiled egg with the first [fish] course) I did have
> higher FBGs.

Imo the FBG can only be used as a diagnostic tool under the ideal conditions
of fasting from about 23:00, a good night sleep of about 8h and taking a
value right after getting up. If I don't sleep well or very short because
I'm exited about what I'm going to do that day then my FBG might be a bit
off.

A lot of saturated fat like margarine does not cause a spike in post
prandial blood glucose but it does cause a spike in : 1) the post prandial
serum fatty acids, 2) the postprandial metabolic load and 3) in the
endothelial function 4) the oxidant status. These things will cause Insulin
resistance to rise. This is my view which (as you know by now, I guess) is
not shared by a lot of people in Asd.

> The change of schedule as I mentioned elsewhere may be
> a complicating etiological factor, also I seem to have some contact
> dermatitis on my right hand, possibly from all the food preparation,
> which may have been driving up my overall levels.

I hope you get it under control. If you go to the docter tell him that you
want to control your bg. He might prescribe a corticosteriod for the
dermatitis which might drive your bg up a bit

Gys