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Low blood sugar 5 days after sleeve surgery

I had my sleeve surgery on November 20th 2014 and left the hospital on 11/ 22/ 14. Then on Nov,24th just before i was ready to go to bed, i noticed my blood sugar was low. At that point i did not know how to raise my blood sugar without getting dumping syndrome. Can anyone please tell me how to raise my blood sugar and avoid Dumping syndrome? I am on a phase one liquid diet for 2 weeks, Thank You. :unsure:

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Define low?

They sell glucose gel that you can put on your gum.. Absorbs through the capillary bed.

If you are checking your sugar, though, could be your meds for diabetes?

Talk to your doc.

i have had 2 low blood sugars since my surgery last tuesday. treated the first one with diluted apple juice, got a belly ache from drinking too much/too fast, but better than the alternative. treated the second with chewable glucose tabs which i kept in my mouth until fully dissolved. much better.

@@bajagal101 Mine drop in the hospital a couple times and they gave me OJ. Do you even have dumping syndrome? It's not "that" common With gastric sleeve..are you just scared it could happen? If you haven't had it and you need to raise your sugar do it! Chances are you will be fine

I'm assuming you are diabetic. Type 1 or 2? And what kind of medications are you on? Orals or insulin? When I got home from the hospital, I was told to keep taking metformin and to stop taking my glipizide. But on the metformin my sugar levels were topping out at like 60. Which is pretty low. At my one week post op the surgeon told me to stop taking the metformin.

Also, since you were just sleeved and are on liquids, there is no way for you to know if you will get dumping or not. You might, you might not. I do not. A lot of people do not. But the best thing to do is to ask your surgeon or nutritionist what they would suggest when you see them for your post op visit.

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