Stress raises blood sugar, so I would monitor it quite closley for a while. Higher BS can also be an early symptom of infection. Make sure you are getting loys of fluids, but watch out for sugar content. I imagine everything will settle out when you diet is more normal. Take care!!

The bodies natural response to a sudden drop in calorie intake can be that the blood sugars raise in our bodies. I suggest following a diabetic diet and eat every 3 hours so your body regulates its glucose levels. Good luck

My blood sugars were excellent straight away following surgery and I came off my Type II diabetes meds on day 5 post sleeve. My doctor told me to check 2x daily and gave me instructions about when to take metformin again if I hit certain levels - so far, 7 weeks later, I have never needed to take one! I'm sorry yours are proving a bit more problematic, and as said above, that could be for a variety of reasons. I hope you see an improvement soon!

In three months your blood sugar will be normal and so will your HBA1C. My BS's pre surgery were 140-150 and my HBA1C was 5.9. A year later BS is between 70-80 and my HBA1C is below 5. Blood pressure pre surgery was 135/90 and now it's 101/60.

I have excellent labs if I do say so myself

Originally Posted by BCmomabear

Stress raises blood sugar, so I would monitor it quite closley for a while. Higher BS can also be an early symptom of infection. Make sure you are getting loys of fluids, but watch out for sugar content. I imagine everything will settle out when you diet is more normal. Take care!!

Thanks...I didn't think about the possible infection factor. I am low on the liquids. I mainly drink water, (sometimes hot tea w/ Splenda), but I know I'm not getting enough in.

Originally Posted by mobbsygirl

The bodies natural response to a sudden drop in calorie intake can be that the blood sugars raise in our bodies. I suggest following a diabetic diet and eat every 3 hours so your body regulates its glucose levels. Good luck

Thank you, I will try that also. I didn't know that the body responds like that to calorie deficits. I hope it levels out soon. I hate that it went up, instead of down.

Originally Posted by Welly

My blood sugars were excellent straight away following surgery and I came off my Type II diabetes meds on day 5 post sleeve. My doctor told me to check 2x daily and gave me instructions about when to take metformin again if I hit certain levels - so far, 7 weeks later, I have never needed to take one! I'm sorry yours are proving a bit more problematic, and as said above, that could be for a variety of reasons. I hope you see an improvement soon!

Well, I'm glad yours went well so soon! I hope mine do too...soon. We'll see...

Originally Posted by TrailNurse

In three months your blood sugar will be normal and so will your HBA1C. My BS's pre surgery were 140-150 and my HBA1C was 5.9. A year later BS is between 70-80 and my HBA1C is below 5. Blood pressure pre surgery was 135/90 and now it's 101/60.

I have excellent labs if I do say so myself

Wow! That is phenomenal! I am hoping for such. I did blood work and labs the week before I had surgery, so I had something to compare with in a few weeks. I will test again at 8 weeks post-surgery and then again at 4 months. I'll do it again at 6 months and 1 year, just for good measure. I do want to keep track of them to see what and how things improved.

I love your labs! I also had my cholesterol tested too... not too great. I'll share those when I get the paper out tomorrow.

Within 6 weeks I had labs done and was taken off all diabetes and heart meds. Have not looked back almost 5 months out my labs are great, BP is down and no more diabetes.