Are you eating the cottage cheese plain? You might give it a rest, then try having some additional protien with the cottage cheese to mediate the effects on blood gluclose. Maybe on the days you try the cottage cheese, skip the milk. That way you aren't having alot of lactose from different sources. It may be cottage cheese just isn't for you. Have you tried riccota?

Check the recipe section. Alot of people will make dessert like things with riccotta. You can also do a zucchini lasagne, or just mix it in a skillet with tomatoe sauce and soem meat and call it 5 min lasagne

You don't have to mix the protien in, though soem like making shakes by using cottage cheese. They do cottage cheese, protien powder, then syrup liike your toranis. Just have a chicken breast at the same time, or something else using the cottage cheese as a side. There are hamburgers at resteraunts that do have cottage cheese on top. They are definetly interesting, though most have some pinapple added as well.

that's a really weird rxn to cottage cheese though, esp cause it doesn't have that much carbs and has a lot of protein itself-- r u sure you're not allergic to it? or minor lactose intolerance? Or maybe it was just spoiled?

Hi Freckles!
Sorry I can't help you, but I am very curious as to how you know that a sneezing attack is a sign of low blood sugar for you? I used to get these quite often and had one last Saturday evening, always while driving!!!!!!! So I am curious about this????

Maybe bacon would be a good protein for your cottage cheese????

I notice that I get blood sugar disturbances when I first reintroduce something new to my diet. The first time I ate apples, I got this shaky/nervous irritable feeling (this was my personal recollection of what low blood sugar felt like). I was really depressed about that, since I love apples. However, I tried eating them again and I don't get that feeling anymore at all.

I think when we start to use more sugar again, we kind of go into a "reverse induction" mode. Your body isn't used to it, and it needs to adapt, just as it did before when we went on induction.

Try again tomorrow, and this time drink a little carb countdown milk for protein, and add nuts to your cheese for fat. If you still feel like your blood sugar is messed up, then maybe you should avoid this particular item.

Well...3 or 4 years ago when I was diagnosed with low blood sugar and started learning about it I started noticing that when I ate something really high in sugars I would start sneezing...sometimes 20 times or more!!! (I had been doing it all along, but didn't notice the connection to sugar until then. I'm a bit slow sometimes. ) But if I ate a piece of cheese, the sneezing would stop. Then I read in The Low Blood Sugar Handbook (author's name escapes me) that this was a symptom of hypoglycemia (low blood sugar). I was glad to know, but had already figured out how to fix it (temporarily anyway) by eating protein to counter-act the affects of the sugar.

By the way...I tried the eating plan in that book and it did not help me...too high carb...it wasn't until doing Atkins that my symptoms completely cleared up. Today was the first day I experienced them since May 2003!

Bacon isn't a bad idea! Thanks.

Maybe you are right...seems logical anyway. I think I will try again, but not tomorrow, and not the same day I have the lc milk...I'm afraid that would be too much. Hopefully, though, you're right. I will try again on Saturday and give an update.

You mentioned you just started the oregano oil. That is suppose to combat yeast. Sneezing, dizziness and nausea can all be symptoms of yeast. When you go through yeast die-off, your symptoms get worse. The first three days of taking the oregano oil I felt horrible. I had headaches and also felt like I had low blood sugar. It's been a week now, and I feel much better.

hhhmmm...see I was wondering about this. I did have all the reactions right after I ate the cottage cheese, though. It will be interesting to see if I have these reactions tomorrow. So far I feel fine now and have not really had any other reactions that were talked about on the OoO thread. Thank you for telling me your experiences!...I hadn't read about anyone having low blood sugar symptoms with the OoO and it's nice to know so I can consider the possibility.

Cottage cheese can feed yeast and lead to the reaction your having because you have a die off and feeding going on at the same time.

Sneezing as a sign of low blood sugar is fascinating! I had no idea. Sometimes I have little sneezing fits in the morning (I don't have allergies) and now I wonder if that's why. Thanks for the info!