Hi,
I drank last night and today I feel little hungover. My lunch was 2 meatballs with 2 slices veryt thin dark bread and literally 5-6 pieces fries... with coke Zero. My reading was 3.1, then followed by a 3.4 a few times.
Do you know when someone can pass out from low blood sugar? It's terrible, since I'm not a diabetic and I thought I'm pretty much safe from such lows.
Sometimes when I eat bigger portions with lots of carbs, I don't go below 4.4 so I just don't understand the logic of severe drop while I eat smaller portion and fewer carbs... I think that I actually might be really intollerant to potatoes. Sometimes I eat other carbs (let's say only bread with cheese), and don't go hypo. I'm confused. But that reading really scared me, I never had this low...
I may shock you here, but from my experience before I realised that being hypoglycaemic can be harmful.
I have been unconscious, and it is awful and not knowing what is happening, I have been really low, and had people panicking around me, because I had no awareness of my surroundings and unaware of how or why, I was where I was, I was found wandering around a shop, not knowing what I was looking for or what, day, time and reason, how I got there.
If my natural function for such low levels hadn't kicked in, I would not be here.
Also if not for my endocrinologist, I would not be here, because all my GPs, didn't have a clue, and my episodes of highs and lows, due to food I was intolerant to, were causing more symptoms than my body could cope with, especially my vital organs including my brain, the lack of glucose and more importantly the high levels of insulin, (hyperinsulinaemia) are a recipe of disaster waiting to happen over an extended period of my life.
It was killing me, slowly!
Your attitude to what is causing the symptoms is a denial of your condition.
You must recognise that carbs are what are making you ill.
Bread, beer, porridge, pasta and even supposedly complex carbs, are what is causing your ill health, and like an allergy, will always make you ill and worse, if you ignore it!
I do believe, you want the answers, and eat and drink 'normally', like everyone else.
Unfortunately, you have a condition, that means that you shouldn't!
Until you get control, you will get the symptoms and the effects of what happens when you have carbs!
My best wishes, have a good think about, how you approach your future health.