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[swingchickie]

so, i've discovered something today. Fleet's Phospho-Soda tastes like ass. i have to have 2 doses today, as if the dulcolax last night wasn't enough. the stuff is so nasty... it's ginger-lemon flavored, which is a crock. the stuff is flavored saline solution, and you mix it in a glass of gatorade. so you have the salty chemical taste from the gatorade, plus the salty taste from the phospho-soda... so basically you're choking down a big glass of thick, cold, salt water with a little lemon flavoring somewhere in there. and to make matters worse, you can't just chug the damn thing and be done with it... you have to drink it slowly over 20 minutes. halfway through the first glass, i was looking over at that thick liquid and gagging. literally. i'm not sure how i'm going to choke the second glass down an hour from now.

my blood sugar's been okay, knock on wood. had a few woozy moments a little while ago, but i breathed through them and drank some water, and they passed. the legs feel a little weak, but i can deal with it. i'm just hoping that i feel the same tomorrow morning, after 24 hours of not eating. i have to drink 3 glasses of water or gatorade after each of these phospho-soda doses, plus a big bowl of hot boullion (which is better than filet mignon if you haven't eaten all day), so i don't get dehydrated and faint... so at least that's helping to fill my stomach a bit.

i gave up trying to get a lot of work done today. i was worried about wearing myself out, after the woozy episodes. so i took a nap for a bit this afternoon, and spent some time reading ("bling", the book i got a few weeks ago, is crap... but dammit, i have to see how it ends now. i'm SO buying "sock" as soon as i'm done.). i think i'll go watch the evening news, and try napping again. ugh.

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[thetech.livejournal.com]

Ick. I bet you're just counting the minutes until you can have real food again!

Are you prone to hypoglycemic episodes? They're not fun either [as I said in my previous comment].

Hang in there!

[swingchickie.livejournal.com]

tell me about it! i'm thinking a huge mess of indian food, with all the lentils and rice i can eat. *drool* and M&Ms... for some reason i've been craving M&Ms over the past few days.

yup, i'm totally hypoglycemic. had a glucose tolerance test a few years ago... it was supposed to be 7 hours long, but 5 hours into it i started to faint, so they had to call my doctor and ask him to stop my test so they could give me a sandwich. ugh.

[thetech.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you experience a hypoglycemic episode the same way I do, but I find I have an extreme compulsion to eat. And eat. And eat some more. Instincts have kicked in by now and it's a hoarding reflex. I finally stop when my blood sugar levels have risen to something more respectable.

Of course, by that time, I've overeaten and have to take a shot of insulin to counteract the massive amount of food I've consumed :\

I totally confused some dieticians when I told them that, until I explained my rationale behind it... LOL. I'm convinced that nobody really understands what's it's like without experiencing it firsthand.