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Reactive Hypoglycaemia

Hi guys,
It is interesting you bring this up.
I drink the odd sherry at intervals of many weeks but tonight (we eat early) I had a can of lager, my better half gets a few cans in for an occasional one for herself .
I suppose I shouldn't imbibe at all, because I am on warfarin.
We had roast chicken and brocolli, cauli, red onion and grated carrot....no high GI carbs. Finished with straws, rasps, blueberries and 10% Greek yoghurt, all from lidl.

I checked at 1hour and I was 6.4 which is OK for me.
atb
Derek
 
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We are getting married next year as well and I am just trying to think of how I will cope at celebrations generally
 
That's amazingly good. I don't touch carrots anymore as they spike me. I don't want to be drunk just to be able to partake occasionally and especially at my wedding! :) xx
 
Hi Lina,
I eat grated raw carrot.
Cooked carrot will spike me, as I recall grated carrot has a GI of c.10.
regards
Derek
Linagirl said:
That's amazingly good. I don't touch carrots anymore as they spike me. I don't want to be drunk just to be able to partake occasionally and especially at my wedding! :) xx
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Hi guys!

Just to let you know, that we will be having our own forum, instead of just this thread.
Hopefully, it will be up and running by tomorrow evening.
My and @Brunneria have lobbied the forum techs and admin for quite a while.
Our efforts have payed off!

Awesome!

The reason for our own forum is because we want people with hypoglycaemic episodes and those looking for help can find us easier, than searching through all the other forums.

I am honoured to let you know!

Awesome!

I'm made up and excited!

So please start getting your ideas for threads.
 
Hi all Well done Nosher and Brunneria that is awsume. :stop::happy:.... I'm delighted and I'm sure many people too.....
 
Thats brilliant @nosher and @brun well done :)

Regarding alcohol i have the odd glass of wine but haven't tested myself. In the past i got drunk very easily and felt tired and sobered up quickly. Dont often drink enough to keep going. Its my first drink i enjoy as you feel the effects.
I do advise you test yourself and 'get used to it ' if you plan on drinking at your wedding or you'll have one then flake out. But you know your own limits if you have too much you won't enjoy the experience.
I came off a shift work pattern 2 days before my wedding and by 10pm was so tired i couldn't enjoy the evening. that was years ago.
 
Well done that is great news!!

Thanks Wendolph good advise at least I know it's not necessarily banned. I don't feel the need at home just socially now and again don't want to feel like the boring one! Lol.

I managed to go into the office his morning to see my boss. I cried all the way there and fell to bits when I walked into her room. Feel so stupid now. I feel better for having gone in. They have suggested I start back next Wednesday. X
 
I know we have used this thread but for newbies it is so long!
Now that we have our own forum, let's use that instead. Start a new thread for each question. And then we can use the forum better.
Many thanks!
 
Brunneria said:
Honestly? Being type 2 has made my life MUCH easier.
Seriously.

All those years of RH, all those lows.
Suddenly, when I hit T2, the sudden drops in bg slowed down and became much more manageable. It was like being on holiday.

Being T2 is (in my experience) only as hard as you make it - by that, I mean that if you eat sensibly (which is VLC for us RHers), then there is no need for all the D drugs, so no side effects from them. And the T2 is controlled by VLC. So it is just business as normal, really.

I realise that this isn't everyone's experience of T2, but I definitely feel better now than I did with just RH. Partly due to the strict VLCing, and partly due to the much better understanding of bg and the slower RH drops.

Most of the problems with T2 seem to be with people who are in denial, don't change their diet, went years before diagnosis and have already developed complications, or those who have followed the NHS high carb nonsense diet for years, and have therefore deteriorated.

Plus, a diagnosis of T2 benefits you in a number of ways - regular HbA1cs, regular blood tests and check ups, eye tests for retinopathy, foot tests...

I see it as a positive thing.
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Hi Brun, do you mind me asking how your type 2 was diagnosed please? Was it GTT defined or Hba1a defined?

I've been to see the specialist diabetic nurse this morning at my doctors surgery and she doesn't know whether I'm diabetic or not. As I've said before, my hba1c is normal but my first GTT put me in the diabetic range. The second GTT only put me in the pre-diabetic range. The consultant said the two test are effectively testing different things, so you can be diabetic with one test but not with the other.

Interestingly she told me that she had a GTT while pregnant and her bg dropped to 2.7 after the test. She's wasn't diabetic and has been ok since. She said it's actually quite a common thing to happen after a GGT and she knows lots of people who have RH. Apparently the most common method to treat is eating every 2 hours and to include small amounts of carbs....that old chestnut!! I've got a telephone appointment later today with the NHS dietician. I wonder what the advice will be.....!!
 
Well done Brun and Nosher! Such a great, informative forum, which I'm sure will help many more people with the condition.
 
Linagirl said:
We are getting married next year as well and I am just trying to think of how I will cope at celebrations generally
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Just catching up! I occasionally have a small glass of red wine with a meal or half pint of lager. I've tested my bg 2 hours afterwards and it's always been ok.

Im sure you know this already, but alcohol tends to increase your bg quickly and drop you quickly. Worth being aware of if you are drinking. Get some practise and testing in before your wedding day so you know how it affects you. Would be nice to enjoy a glass or two on the day x
 
Yes definitely thanks Kaz I'll start testing all in the name of science!!!

Had a much better day today no bgs above 5.9 so far so I must have had a virus or something. Even my early morning was 5.9 so not too bad.

I went to see my boss and cried all the way there as the rushing with he kids and trying to get there and it taking over an hour to drop everyone off and get to work all got too much. I got stressed about driving and where to park and just silly stuff. Feel a bit better now but have had weird vibrations in my finger this afternoon which I think are anxiety related.

Aiming to return to work next Wednesday x
 
Linagirl said:
Yes definitely thanks Kaz I'll start testing all in the name of science!!!

Had a much better day today no bgs above 5.9 so far so I must have had a virus or something. Even my early morning was 5.9 so not too bad.

I went to see my boss and cried all the way there as the rushing with he kids and trying to get there and it taking over an hour to drop everyone off and get to work all got too much. I got stressed about driving and where to park and just silly stuff. Feel a bit better now but have had weird vibrations in my finger this afternoon which I think are anxiety related.

Aiming to return to work next Wednesday x
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I get the tingly fingers, but I also think its anxiety related. Well done you for driving to work. I'm sure it'll get easier for you the more you do it. I find that things I did without a second thought before, now stress me out and cause major anxiety.

I drove myself to the doctors today. Only 5 mins away but it's a start. I've got to drop my daughter at an after school club later which will be around the time we usually have dinner. Means my levels could be getting low and dinner will be late. Could be stressful .

Enjoy the alcohol testing xx
 
Kaz261 said:
Hi Brun, do you mind me asking how your type 2 was diagnosed please? Was it GTT defined or Hba1a defined?
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Its a long story, so i will make it as short as poss.
:)
I've had RH and glucose tolerance issues for approx 44 years.
And prolactinoma (benign tumour of pituitary gland, pumping out extra prolactin, which screws my hormones up a lot) and PCOS since my teens, but these weren't diagnosed until 2000ish.
Following that diagnosis they started monitoring me (sporadically) for PreD and T2.

My last OGTT was about 5 years ago (and was exactly 11 at 2 hours), and i was absolutely on the borderline of T2 diagnosis - and sent home with a Healthy Plate high carb diet sheet, which i ignored!
The OGTT gave me an awful headache, aches, exhaustion, vision so blurred for 2 days that i couldnt drive or use a computer. So i have annoyed the doc by refusing to take one since. His annoyance has expressed by his declaring that he won't diagnose me T2 without one. My doc doesn't like questions or independent thought.

Since then my official fasting bg tests have been between 6.5 and 7.8 but i only got tested annually, and my doc refused to diagnose without an OGTT over 11. I got the second 7+ FBG a couple of months ago, which i understand means that I officially joined the ranks of T2 (though my HbA1c was 42 :)) but i still don't know if my doc accepts 2 x 7+ as a valid diagnosis since the surgery hasn't been in touch about it. They may be ignoring it because my HbA1c is unusually low for a T2!

I reckon i actually hit T2 about 4ish years ago, because that was when my RH seemed to miraculously improve. The night time widdling hit (if i ate carbs) and I also had a severe chest infection that dragged on and on and didn't seem to clear up until the doc blasted it with mega antibiotics.

I found this forum, got a meter, and became even stricter about LC - which sorted all the symptoms out.

At no point in the last 44 years has any doc taken my RH symptoms seriously, so that has never been factored into any of the events above ;)
 
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nosher8355 said:
I know we have used this thread but for newbies it is so long!
Now that we have our own forum, let's use that instead. Start a new thread for each question. And then we can use the forum better.
Many thanks!
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Is it up and running yet? Where can we find it?
 
Brunneria said:
Its a long story, so i will make it as short as poss.
:)
I've had RH and glucose tolerance issues for approx 44 years.
And prolactinoma (benign tumour of pituitary gland, pumping out extra prolactin, which screws my hormones up a lot) and PCOS since my teens, but these weren't diagnosed until 2000ish.
Following that diagnosis they started monitoring me (sporadically) for PreD and T2.

My last OGTT was about 5 years ago (and was exactly 11 at 2 hours), and i was absolutely on the borderline of T2 diagnosis - and sent home with a Healthy Plate high carb diet sheet, which i ignored!
The OGTT gave me an awful headache, aches, exhaustion, vision so blurred for 2 days that i couldnt drive or use a computer. So i have annoyed the doc by refusing to take one since. His annoyance has expressed by his declaring that he won't diagnose me T2 without one. My doc doesn't like questions or independent thought.

Since then my official fasting bg tests have been between 6.5 and 7.8 but i only got tested annually, and my doc refused to diagnose without an OGTT over 11. I got the second 7+ FBG a couple of months ago, which i understand means that I officially joined the ranks of T2 (though my HbA1c was 42 :)) but i still don't know if my doc accepts 2 x 7+ as a valid diagnosis since the surgery hasn't been in touch about it. They may be ignoring it because my HbA1c is unusually low for a T2!

I reckon i actually hit T2 about 4ish years ago, because that was when my RH seemed to miraculously improve. The night time widdling hit (if i ate carbs) and I also had a severe chest infection that dragged on and on and didn't seem to clear up until the doc blasted it with mega antibiotics.

I found this forum, got a meter, and became even stricter about LC - which sorted all the symptoms out.

At no point in the last 44 years has any doc taken my RH symptoms seriously, so that has never been factored into any of the events above ;)
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Wow, sounds like you've had a real struggle with your Doc and symptoms over the years! It's so frustrating that some Doctors won't accept or investigate further, any symptoms or results that don't fit in with the "norm".

Hope you don't think I was being nosey, I'm just struggling a to understand my own diagnosis a little....or lack of!
 
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