What eJuice makers are not telling us about PG and VG
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I'm diabetic. I monitor every day. My A1c is checked every six months. I went through a vial of 30 strips the first week vaping and another 30 over the next two weeks to closely monitor any spikes. None occurred. I went from smoking 2 PAD slowly decreasing smokes over three months smoking 5 or 6 cigarettes a day the biggest part of the time but got down to 2 or 3 a day before stopping extra monitoring. My decreasing blood sugar levels was due to quitting smoking so much. So, in summary, not only did vaping not spike my sugars but overall at about 5 mls per day sugars never increased and my A1c went down from smoking levels. The culprit in my higher sugars was cigarettes. Vaping has reduced both my blood sugar and blood pressure as well as triglyceride levels.
Cigarettes contain glycerol... see this:
Cigarette Ingredients - Chemicals in Cigarettes
This is glycerol:
glycerol (chemical compound) -- Encyclopedia Britannica
If these glycerols do in fact spike blood sugar, though they don't appear to in my body, then I was obviously getting more of them with heavy smoking.... though I did not check for spikes after smoking like I did with vaping. I've been diabetic for nearly 50 years an routinely use sugar alcohols to replace sugar. None have ever spiked my sugars. I use VG in all my baking to moisturize.
I think you should see your doctor. You may have some medical condition causing your body to react out of the norm. Out of curiosity, what are you calling a "spike?" Did you get a fasting level before vaping? What was the spread? Did you check two hours later while refraining from vaping? How much did it come down? Did you check it again at three hours and so on if needed? Did you eat anything during the time you were checking for perceived blood sugar spikes due to vaping? If you see a doctor, this is information you should take with you.
Edit: Having just read some of this thread, none of my post is intended to be "snarky"... just factual. I truly hope you get to the bottom of your problem and continue monitoring your health.
Cigarettes contain glycerol... see this:
Cigarette Ingredients - Chemicals in Cigarettes
This is glycerol:
glycerol (chemical compound) -- Encyclopedia Britannica
If these glycerols do in fact spike blood sugar, though they don't appear to in my body, then I was obviously getting more of them with heavy smoking.... though I did not check for spikes after smoking like I did with vaping. I've been diabetic for nearly 50 years an routinely use sugar alcohols to replace sugar. None have ever spiked my sugars. I use VG in all my baking to moisturize.
I think you should see your doctor. You may have some medical condition causing your body to react out of the norm. Out of curiosity, what are you calling a "spike?" Did you get a fasting level before vaping? What was the spread? Did you check two hours later while refraining from vaping? How much did it come down? Did you check it again at three hours and so on if needed? Did you eat anything during the time you were checking for perceived blood sugar spikes due to vaping? If you see a doctor, this is information you should take with you.
Edit: Having just read some of this thread, none of my post is intended to be "snarky"... just factual. I truly hope you get to the bottom of your problem and continue monitoring your health.
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Agree.
If you are hypoglycemic, best way to test this is talk to your doctor, then have your levels checked after a heavy vape day. Hypoglycemic testing isn't comfortable, I've done it many times.
But w/out having your levels checked people on a forum are not reliable medical experts.
I have had my lipid profiles done recently, fasting, and vaping hasn't adversely affected my cholesterol, for instance.
Just my 2 cents, but we all react differently to things. Case in point, my daughter (36) gets EXTREMELY depressed when on certain antibiotics and prescription pain relievers. She knows which ones to avoid, and will not accept a prescription for the ones she knows cause a reaction. If she gets anything new and it causes a reaction, she calls her doctor for a different prescription. Doctors have told me and her (this has been going on since she was in middle school, at least) that they have not heard of this kind of reaction, so now we just say she is allergic to certain meds. I, personally, think artificial sweeteners taste bitter, not sweet. Her throat starts closing up with artificial sweeteners. She recently, through trial and error, found that she is gluten sensitive. Even with things that she has no expectation of having gluten, she has had the stomach problems, etc., so we as a family avoid gluten. Some people do have "off the wall" reactions to things that most of the population can tolerate. It does seem strange, however, that the OP has not come back to this thread to comment on some of the suggestions, etc. Personally, if I were the OP, I would talk to my doctor, and experiment with different levels of PG, VG, and nicotine to try to get to the root of the problem. Since I do most of the ordering of our vaping supplies (we share living accommodations and expenses), when I see something on ECF that I think might affect either of us, I let her know so we can both monitor our reactions, and we can adjust things until we get to where we are happy and reaction free.
You may want to consider that it may be the higher level of nicotine that you are ingesting while vaping is effecting you metabolically. See what happens if you reduce your nicotine level. Just my two cents. Good luck and have fun!
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