01-08-2013, 01:57 AM
LOL... Non water soluble parts of plants are now toxins? Damn. Better stop all those old people getting all that Metamucil then.
On a more serious note... This sounds suspiciously like the loverly little side effect of PM known as a major insulin response but no sugar for that insulin to be attacking. Thus your insulin spike attacks your necessary blood sugar and takes you to a dangerously low point...
The answer? Simply just eat stuff when you take your PM. Doesn't need to be much. Just something with a gram or two of sugar is plenty. Heck, if you want to simply just take a "spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down" ... to quoth a very wise character in a super awesome classic musical.
Really doesn't need to be a spoonful though. A teaspoon is about 5 grams typically. So a quarter teaspoon should be plenty. Wouldn't even need to be particularly full. Or a heaping eighth might be sufficient.
Honestly though, whenever you're taking a bunch of pills. ANY pills. You really should be eating at the same time. You just need to make sure it contains a little bit of sugar if you happen to be taking PM... Or FG... AFAIK those are the only common NBE herbs you MIGHT use that has that insulin response.
On a more serious note... This sounds suspiciously like the loverly little side effect of PM known as a major insulin response but no sugar for that insulin to be attacking. Thus your insulin spike attacks your necessary blood sugar and takes you to a dangerously low point...
The answer? Simply just eat stuff when you take your PM. Doesn't need to be much. Just something with a gram or two of sugar is plenty. Heck, if you want to simply just take a "spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down" ... to quoth a very wise character in a super awesome classic musical.
Really doesn't need to be a spoonful though. A teaspoon is about 5 grams typically. So a quarter teaspoon should be plenty. Wouldn't even need to be particularly full. Or a heaping eighth might be sufficient.
Honestly though, whenever you're taking a bunch of pills. ANY pills. You really should be eating at the same time. You just need to make sure it contains a little bit of sugar if you happen to be taking PM... Or FG... AFAIK those are the only common NBE herbs you MIGHT use that has that insulin response.