Hi and welcome to the forum.
A fasting test is normal procedure if the doctors are looking for anything other than T2 in a glucose tolerance test.
I have Reactive Hypoglycaemia, but I was not diagnosed from a two hour glucose tolerance test, or from a Hba1c test.
To get a true diagnosis of RH, there is a few elimination tests to show that it is not other conditions, including a extended OGTT, which can last up to five hours. It is what happens after the two hours that is important in diagnosing RH.
You can have Hypoglycaemic episodes as symptoms due to a number of factors, for instance, drugs that intentionally lower blood glucose levels.
Type two patients can have RH.
My Hba1c is normal, my fasting levels are normal. But because of intolerance to certain foods, my levels can become diabetic, if I lose control of my blood glucose levels. Symptoms of RH, will show diabetic levels when eating the wrong foods for quite a while. I was diagnosed with T2 Initially because I had high glucose levels, I also had high insulin levels. My blood glucose levels would swing from normal to high , then drop rapidly, then go high again after eating, then drop again. And so on.
For instance, after porridge in the morning, no milk just water, I could reach double figures easily, depending on portion size.
Have you had any other tests?
Are you on meds?
Have you any intolerance or allergies with food?
What dietary advice have you had?
We have a sub forum with great information about RH. Do read and ask questions if you want to.
Best wishes
Good day All,
I have been diagnosed as Type 2 diabetic but my latest HbA1c is 31mmol/mol (5%).
Is this in any way possible? All I have read before is that a HbA1c of pre-diabetes is 42mmol/mol!
The diabetes diagnosis is from a OGTT after a 48 hr fast which they say went up to 12.8 mmo/L
I suffer from Hypoglycaemic incidents about 5 or 6 times per year.
Any advice, thoughts for a confused diabetic?
Kind regards to all,
Dan