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Sammy72

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Type of diabetes
Reactive hypoglycemia
Treatment type
Diet only
Hi everyone. I’m very newly diagnosed and struggling to get used to RH.
I’ve read, and been told, that reactive hypoglycemia happens around two hours after eating. However I’m experiencing glucose drop sometimes within 30 minutes after eating! It is worse depending on what I’ve just eaten, such as a higher carb meal, which I would expect but it seems to be extremely quick. It definitely happens under the two hour mark.
Does this happen to anyone else or perhaps I’m experiencing some other symptom altogether?

Happy to provide more detail. My apologies as I’m writing this in a hurry to get to work on time. Thanks
 
Sammy72 said:
Hi everyone. I’m very newly diagnosed and struggling to get used to RH.
I’ve read, and been told, that reactive hypoglycemia happens around two hours after eating. However I’m experiencing glucose drop sometimes within 30 minutes after eating! It is worse depending on what I’ve just eaten, such as a higher carb meal, which I would expect but it seems to be extremely quick. It definitely happens under the two hour mark.
Does this happen to anyone else or perhaps I’m experiencing some other symptom altogether?

Happy to provide more detail. My apologies as I’m writing this in a hurry to get to work on time. Thanks
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Yes, I have had experience of a quick reaction, which you have rightly reasoned due to the amount of carbs.
RH is a food issue. It is a condition that is how intolerant you are to carbs and sugars. With me, it is that I should only have very few carbs at all, if at all any!
I usually go hypo, if I have carbs around the three hours mark, but it can be earlier or later.
Are you testing your blood glucose levels?
This is important as you will need to find out how intolerant you are to foods that contain carbs.
for example, I can't eat at all. Spuds, wheat, oats, grains, pasta, and I have been dairy intolerant all my life!
I now only eat fresh food, mainly meat and above ground vegetables.
I have intolerance to many additives, oils, many of which are in processed foods. The likes of soya, palm oil and vegetable oils.
I have had fish for lunch and ham shank for tea, with a side salad. I eat a lot of eggs, which is great protein.
If you need more, keep asking, there is a lot of knowledge that will help you understand the condition.
If you read the threads you will see that we are all different and we have to find all the traps, so we don't need to go hypoglycaemic. I have done it! Let us hope you can!
What tests have you had?
What was your doctors advice?
Have you a specialist endocrinologist?
 
The way I look at your situation is it's a bit like throwing a tennis ball a the ceiling and catching it again on the way down. The more energy you put into throwing it up, the faster it will fall. The faster it falls, the harder it is to catch.

In your situation, the more carbs you consume (and it may even be certain types of carbs),the faster the tennis ball will hit the ceiling and the faster it will fall, making it it hard to catch.

In reality, in your shoes, I'd be looking at keeping the carbs down to try to make the following drops a but more manageable.

If that made no sense, just ignore me. I'm harmless. :)
 
AndBreathe said:
The way I look at your situation is it's a bit like throwing a tennis ball a the ceiling and catching it again on the way down. The more energy you put into throwing it up, the faster it will fall. The faster it falls, the harder it is to catch.

In your situation, the more carbs you consume (and it may even be certain types of carbs),the faster the tennis ball will hit the ceiling and the faster it will fall, making it it hard to catch.

In reality, in your shoes, I'd be looking at keeping the carbs down to try to make the following drops a but more manageable.

If that made no sense, just ignore me. I'm harmless. :)
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I understood that!
The quicker the spike, the quicker and harder the fall.!

And if you don't throw the ball, you don't need to catch it!
No spike, no fall, no hypo!
 
Lamont D said:
I understood that!
The quicker the spike, the quicker and harder the fall.!

And if you don't throw the ball, you don't need to catch it!
No spike, no fall, no hypo!
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We all need to throw the ball (eat). We just don’t need to throw it hard.
 
AndBreathe said:
We all need to throw the ball (eat). We just don’t need to throw it hard.
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I'm not an RH, but in this analogy, throwing the ball isn't just eating, it's eating carbohydrates.
Eat purely egg for example , and the ball isn't thrown.
I have experienced the equivalent with Dawn Phenomenon - don't eat and the BG level continues to rise as the liver remains convinced I need glucose to go hunt/gather my breakfast.
Eat a zero carb meal and my BG drops because I have eaten a meal and so no longer need additional glucose (so liver turns off) and I didn't eat any carbs, so my BG wasn't increased by eating that meal!
 
ianf0ster said:
I'm not an RH, but in this analogy, throwing the ball isn't just eating, it's eating carbohydrates.
Eat purely egg for example , and the ball isn't thrown.
I have experienced the equivalent with Dawn Phenomenon - don't eat and the BG level continues to rise as the liver remains convinced I need glucose to go hunt/gather my breakfast.
Eat a zero carb meal and my BG drops because I have eaten a meal and so no longer need additional glucose (so liver turns off) and I didn't eat any carbs, so my BG wasn't increased by eating that meal!
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The ball is thrown, but barely leaves then hands.

The "flat line" we see on our Libres (or whatever) will have micromovements if we could measure accurately above, but I do agree the carbs are the energy in the throw.
 
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