I knew that if you are taking some diabetes drugs or insulin, you can experience hypos as a T2 when lowering carbs.
What about that "false hypo" though? Not something I had heard of. When I was very new to this diabetes stuff, I had only just started the low-carb diet. A few weeks in, I started waking early in the morning with my heart racing and feeling dizzy. This was really consistent, day after day. Eventually I found that it went away if I munched on a portion of fruit (banana or kiwi) just before going to bed, and then again just after getting up in the morning.
I later read up about "hypo symptoms" and decided these were probably not hypos, not even mild ones. But something else. BTW I still do that "small portion of fruit" routine and the racing heartbeat/diziness are histor
I knew that if you are taking some diabetes drugs or insulin, you can experience hypos as a T2 when lowering carbs.
What about that "false hypo" though? Not something I had heard of. When I was very new to this diabetes stuff, I had only just started the low-carb diet. A few weeks in, I started waking early in the morning with my heart racing and feeling dizzy. This was really consistent, day after day. Eventually I found that it went away if I munched on a portion of fruit (banana or kiwi) just before going to bed, and then again just after getting up in the morning.
I later read up about "hypo symptoms" and decided these were probably not hypos, not even mild ones. But something else. BTW I still do that "small portion of fruit" routine and the racing heartbeat/diziness are history.
ty so much for info she has been put on metformin but seemed ages to wait for 1st diabetic appointment ty