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Hi, I'm looking for a simple to use accurate BG machine to use in the UK without having to get a chip or anything and can be used out the box. My mother in law has newly been diagnosed with type 2 and keep having feelings of hypos despite not being on insulin. I'm presuming this is caused but...

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Thank you for all the information. I will certainly look into how I can try this. As a family of 5 we have a fairly small income as I can’t work due to ill health. It would mean cooking separate meals as my daughter works in sport and insists on a high carb diet. It does concern me how much more...

Wow that was a long reply, thank you What level would you consider enough to cause a spike? I think the highest I ever go is a max of 6.0. Some days I’ll wake up in 3’s feeling rubbish and literally have trouble keeping it above 4.0. Sometimes I can have 3 hypos in one day yet my levels have...

I may sound dumb but what is a mixed meal test...I’ve never had one of those or been offered one

Thank you for your advice. It’s all so much to take in and to try to understand so I’ll,need to read through it a few times. It doesn’t help when I have so called professionals...those who you really trust...telling you to eat as many complex carbs as possible for slow release energy, a...

I spent most of the second day around the 3.5 mark then dropped to the 2’s. They said it’s not a true hypo until it goes down to 2.2 which I found odd as I’ve always read that under 4.0 is classed as hypo. I usually start getting symptoms around 4 or just under

Thanks again. It’s possible I may have more triggers now, I’m not certain, but what is fine one day is not fine the next. This morning my fasting levels are at 4.4 but I know for certain if I try to do any housework or anything before eating I WILL go hypo. But then the chances are I’ll go hypo...

Thanks for replying. I definitely have RH and have done for 19 years and reacted highly to the Extended GTT but I've always been able to control it by avoiding triggers (99% of the time.) That's until 2 years ago. If I eat a trigger I will crash around 2 hours after as before but over the last 2...

Hi. I was the same. They keep it going for 72 hours unless you sugars drop to 2.2 then they take bloods and stop the test. Mine went the whole 72 hours and dropped to 2.5 feeling like rubbish and freezing cold but recovered quickly after food

I was told that it cannot be insulinoma if it doesn't drop to 2.2 but at 2.5 being so close is it possible he could be wrong?

Thank you for replying. Yes the 72hr fast was to test for that but because it didn’t go down to 2.2 they said it was inconclusive. However I really suffer with thirst and can sometimes drink as much as 7L of water in a day and still be thirsty. They have no answer to that although one dr did...

After testing positive for RH and joining this forum I tried cutting the carbs but still had hypos. (Lots of them). I have hypos when I’m fasting. I have hypos when I exert any energy (and that includes walking round a supermarket). I was taken into hospital for 72 hr fasting which was...