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Hope you guys can help here.
My wife has T2 and between us have been doing OK ish diet wise, still working it all out.

Her reading this morning when she got up was 8.3 before breakfast which was little high as normally its between 5 - 6.

Today while I was at work my wife contacted me to say he was feeling funny, a wozzy head, blurred vision and not feeling well at all, I suggested she took a reading and it was down to 4.3 which for her is very low. This was around 11:30, So I suggested she eat something to see if it helped.
She had a tin of vegetable soup and a round of bread. after about 30 mins she was feeling a lot better and after an hour back to normal. Her readings after 2 hours was back up to 10.3 which is quite high for her of late.

Could it be possible her levels had got too low ? we both thought the idea was to get it as low as possible but can you go too much the other way ?


Chris & Beve
 
Hi both.

There have been many discussions on here about low's and hypo's.

The jist being Type 2 diet or metformin only can't generally (though they are rarely known) get the dangerously low hypo's a type 1 or type on on insulin type medication can suffer from.

They can however get low blood sugar just like anyone else. Today I was similar, not dizzy but clumsy and nowty when I finished work, I hadn't eaten in about 6.5 hrs - too long for me, I took a reading knowing full well it was going to tell me I was low and it was 4.5. I had my dinner and am feeling more normal. I didn't have a carby dinner to make up for it, just a normal chicken salad.

First time it happend I was a bit worried as I hadn't experienced this before but then I realised I now eat to fuel my body. In the past I ate cos I liked the food and I was constantly topping up, so never really had the chance to get low sugars.

The reason Chris went high afterwards could well have been the bread with the soup.

Mary x
 
Agree. Think the bread with the soup was maybe overkill. ANYONE can get low blood sugars, and the levels you showed us weren't that low. Trouble us, when your body is used to high blood sugar levels it thinks that normal ones like 4s are too low. They're not. This is sometimes called a "false hypo". So by all means take a rest, or a bite to eat, but don't overdo it. We need to get used to more normal levels. 4s are good!
 
Many thanks for the advice, this is all new to us so anything out of the ordinary we maybe a bit over reacting at the moment.
All a new learning process.
 
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