Hello, tahnks for the answers. I tried low carb breakfast for a couple of days, not a long time. Other than that I manage not to have hypo by eating frequently every 2-3 hours. My job and lifestyle don't let me to be super careful about my diet, so most of the time I eat meat with potatoes every now and then.
20 minutes ago I went home and I was feeling tired, but I was not shaky or angry... just kind of sleepy (my last sugary drink was 1 hour before that). I measured 3.8 mmol/l. What do you consider is a dangerous hypo? The people with RH what was your "normal" blood sugar low? The fact is I'm not diabetic and I don't use medications. I kind of freak out when I see 3.8mmol/l because I really did not had any noticeable symptoms. Can I faint and die, since I live alone with no one at home?
I haven't taken new OGGT, I'm waiting for my new endocrinologyst to come to work since he's on vacation, but my last drink dropped the sugar below the norm.
Actually I don't mind eating every 2-3 hours, many people do it... but I hate I gained maybe at least 10 pounds and I don't know how to cut the calories so I lose weight and still manage the blood sugar level.
My last sugary drink today I took as a means to avoid eating a sandwich. It raised my blood sugar, but seems like it crashed really quickly and I got to 3.8 quite fast. Is it possible the sugar to continue to drop since I'm not diabetic, or my liver will correct it by releasing sugars?
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@Brunneria, the reason you are struggling is because of the rollercoaster ride your blood glucose levels are most of the day, if you continue to eat or drink high carb, starchy carbs and sugary drinks which are really bad for your health.
With RH, those types of food are not healthy or doing you any good whatsoever.
In my experience, you have to discover which foods trigger the insulin overshoot.
It is not the blood glucose levels that are the problem, it is the high levels of insulin circulating, insulin resistance and the overshoot of insulin whenever you eat the carbs that is the trigger.
I was like you, I didn't have the knowledge or reasoning to know why I was having hypos, I didn't know what a hypo was, or how to deal with one.
Only by testing, and having the experience of being non diabetic, but had hypos because of so called healthy diet, which included carbs, and I found out by doing a lot of research and help from this forum, that it dawned on me that if I avoided those carbs, my health improved, I lost weight, the symptoms went, the improvement in my life was remarkable, simply by avoiding the likes of potatoes, rice, bread, pastries, sugary drinks, beer, pastas, beans, in fact anything that included carbs.
My specialist endocrinologist told me, that he considered anything below 3.5 was a hypo, my hypo symptoms start around 3.3, I have had readings of 2.2 and lo on my monitor. As your diet changes, your hypo awareness will be better, the longer you stay in normal levels for us RH ers is between 3.5 & 6.0. The symptoms decrease.
How do you deal with a hypo is important.?
If you feel a hypo coming on, you have to act, and unfortunately, we are not like T1s, the best way to treat a hypo is to have a small amount of carbs, say a plain biscuit or two, with a cuppa, very little full fat milk, or no milk, because I have lactose intolerance, then test after fifteen minutes, if you nudge your blood glucose levels back into normal levels, you should eat a small meal, very low carb, to ensure you don't get what is called, the rebound effect of high blood glucose levels, which would trigger more insulin, which you need to avoid.
The rebound effect is high blood levels, then low levels, high levels, low levels.
This is because of your insulin response initially is poor, then your pancreas overshoots and delivers too much.
The high blood glucose causes symptoms, the low blood glucose cos of the insulin causes symptoms. So you need to stop the rebound, rollercoaster, yo yo glucose levels.
We would always advise, stop the trigger, no overshoot.
In other words, no hyper, no hypo.
The last time I had a hypo was my last eOGTT, about four years ago.
I don't eat carbs, I avoid those foods that trigger the insulin response, a I avoid going out of normal blood glucose levels, I don't go hypo, because I don't go hyper!
Best wishes