I am type 2 (recently diagnosed but been in the waiting room for a long time so I knew it was coming), I control with diet and exercise for now. My nurse also told me a couldn't have hypos but I've had them for about 30 years if I skip a meal, along with palpitations from too many carbs, and this was long before I every had an issue with my health. If I have toast for breakfast (around 8am) and don't eat until about 2pm I will get light headed, cold sweats, feel irritated and my stomach will churn and I shake. Once I have something to eat it goes immediately and it is as if nothing had ever happened. My friends who are not diabetics and my partner have the same thing. Our bodies tell us things, give us warnings and if a person is sensitive to changes in blood sugar they will feel it more than someone who isn't whether or not they are diabetic. Obviously we need to have advice from health professionals, and I am sure we are all grateful for it, but knowing your own body and how it reacts is much more important, this isn't something you learn on a training course or out of a text book, it's real life. Nice forum by the way, and very useful for someone like me who is just getting used to the "D" word.
