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Oral Glucose Tolerance Test

nosher8355 said:
Hi @Blip22,

I have Reactive Hypoglycaemia.
We have our own forum and would really like to hear your story.
There are a couple on the forum that have both RH and T2.

Hope to hear from you.
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Thanks, one thing is for sure this kind of blood glucose profile can really mess up your life, not least because it can so easily be missed, resulting in years of unnecessary misery, thank goodness for the OGTT (oral glucose tolerance test) which will identify impaired glucose tolerance, and atypical diabetes, but also the extended OGTT which will identify the hypoglycemia in rebound (reactive) hypoglycemia.....
 
The last reading on Lesleywo, is probably: thats her own insulin response was well calibrated ( I.e not excessive), to her blood sugar levels, and had ceased, while food just metabolized to glucose is still entering her blood stream. Also the liver releases glucagon to raise blood sugar amongst other things.
 
Lesleywo, ask for an extended 6hr OGTT, taking readings every 30mins, if only your HbA1c is done and you are going very high and low as it is a mean of three months it will fail to show it. Large fluctuations in blood sugar will effect your vision temporarily, either to high or low.
 
evelygtc said:
Can anyone please explain what does LADA and GAD
Stand for?


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LADA = latent autoimmune diabetes in adults, also type 1.5, essentially slow onset type 1,

GAD = glutemic acid Decarbexulase (sp?), GAD antibodies are present in c. 75% of type 1 diabetics and are the antibodies that kill off the insulin producing beta cells (I'm sure that's massively over simplified but that's my basic understanding)
 
If you go to the reactive hypoglycaemia forum all the information is there.

Basically, we create too much insulin.
 
Lesleywo said:
Thanks for your comments everyone. ..i will update on Tuesday with official results
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Well the results of my OGTT are officially in..... fasting 4.8, +2 hours 4.6. Didn't see that coming .. my metre must be way out. Seems odd to get a result like that but my HbAlc is 5.8 (or was last time checked, over 12 months ago).
 
Lesleywo said:
Well the results of my OGTT are officially in..... fasting 4.8, +2 hours 4.6. Didn't see that coming .. my metre must be way out. Seems odd to get a result like that but my HbAlc is 5.8 (or was last time checked, over 12 months ago).
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Wow, what brand of meter do you use? Maybe it's time to change?

I notice from your signature that you have several autoimmune diseases and wondered if you'd seen the video I posted by Dr Alessio Fasano on the Aetiology of Autoimmune Disease?:

http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/thr...n-the-aetiology-of-autoimmune-diseases.84898/
 
Indy51 said:
Wow, what brand of meter do you use? Maybe it's time to change?

I notice from your signature that you have several autoimmune diseases and wondered if you'd seen the video I posted by Dr Alessio Fasano on the Aetiology of Autoimmune Disease?:

http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/thr...n-the-aetiology-of-autoimmune-diseases.84898/
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It's an AccuCheck Performa. I did notice the strips are almost at the use by date so maybe that's the problem.

I haven't seen the video but I will check it out, thank you :-)
 
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