Can T2 have Hypo's

[Kiwigal]

I’m astonished that in Australia you aren’t allowed to drive if BG is below 5mmol. Is that just for diabetics or for everyone?

Only diabetics - https://www.ndss.com.au/about-diabetes/resources/find-a-resource/diabetes-and-driving-booklet/

Esp if you were in car accidents, the police/insurance gonna need evidence of your last tested glucose before or during driving to check if you were above 5 mmol.

(The insurance won't cover the cost if you were below 5 mmol in a car accident for diabetics.)

 

[plantae]

I’m astonished that in Australia you aren’t allowed to drive if BG is below 5mmol. Is that just for diabetics or for everyone?

Just for people on certain BSL lowering medications

 

[plantae]

Only diabetics - https://www.ndss.com.au/about-diabetes/resources/find-a-resource/diabetes-and-driving-booklet/

Esp if you were in car accidents, the police/insurance gonna need evidence of your last tested glucose before or during driving to check if you were above 5 mmol.

(The insurance won't cover the cost if you were below 5 mmol in a car accident for diabetics.)

Sorry, I didn’t see your reply before my own. Your link does mention driver’s license conditions as well and I think those vary by state. E.g. in my state of Au I need to carry a medical certificate (because of insulin) when driving in addition to not being below 5.0

 

[Kiwigal]

It is unusual but not unheard of in certain circumstances. with T2.
The meds thing is important, and if you are on meds, a single episode, is nothing to worry about.

However, if the hypos (under 3.5) episodes continue, then there must be a reason.
That is why there is a varied types of conditions under the hypoglycaemic diagnosis.

Hypos occur in many conditions.

Yes even if I do go below 5 mmol ie for before I start drive my car in Australia. No longer have hypo awareness until my glucose go below 4.2 mmol heading down to 3 ish mmol for hypo awareness.

Thankfully it only happens few times not an regular everyday hypo. (I do have high positive Type 1 Diabetes genetics - is another thing doctor need to keep an eyes on - incase autoimmune/antibodies kick up positive for Type 1 Diabetes. )

 

[Lamont D]

Yes even if I do go below 5 mmol ie for before I start drive my car in Australia. No longer have hypo awareness until my glucose go below 4.2 mmol heading down to 3 ish mmol for hypo awareness.

Thankfully it only happens few times not an regular everyday hypo. (I do have high positive Type 1 Diabetes genetics - is another thing doctor need to keep an eyes on - incase autoimmune/antibodies kick up positive for Type 1 Diabetes. )

However, I do agree with you, but the point is that there are certain things our bodies do not like and the intolerance is different for everyone, it is similar to an allergy, there may be a hidden food or ingredients that could be even low carb that is causing an issue you are not aware of.
When I was researching, testing, trial and error, I found many ingredients that would effect my symptoms.
A lot of these were in production foods.
Food has been a huge problem for me for most of my life. Being lactose intolerant since very young, not being able to stomach many vegetables or some spices, and of course, many other sources of nutrition, that would at the very least would have small side effects, my blood glucose levels would be all over the place, and would put me in a state of poor health.
That is why I subscribe to eat the food I trust, mainly fresh food that has never been anywhere near a factory!

 

[MarthaD]

I'm (allegedly) a T2 and I very often get hypos in the 3s. I'm not your typical T2. Have always eaten relatively low carb, BMI of 22, low BP. I'm diagnosed less than a year and the more I read I'm convinced I'm a LADA. Screaming into a void when I raise this with the practice nurse. My HBA1C was 61 at diagnosis and now 52, 6 months in, but I'm on 1000 metformin and following a mostly low carb diet. I can drop from 13 to 3.5 after a short walk and I'm getting increasingly frustrated that nobody in my practice raises eyebrows over this.

 

[Lamont D]

I'm (allegedly) a T2 and I very often get hypos in the 3s. I'm not your typical T2. Have always eaten relatively low carb, BMI of 22, low BP. I'm diagnosed less than a year and the more I read I'm convinced I'm a LADA. Screaming into a void when I raise this with the practice nurse. My HBA1C was 61 at diagnosis and now 52, 6 months in, but I'm on 1000 metformin and following a mostly low carb diet. I can drop from 13 to 3.5 after a short walk and I'm getting increasingly frustrated that nobody in my practice raises eyebrows over this.

Keep a food diary. Showing your BG levels pre meal and two hours after.
Record everything, what you eat drink, exercise, any readings that you feel could be different. And of course any readings of low readings!
Best wishes.

 

[MeiChanski]

I'm (allegedly) a T2 and I very often get hypos in the 3s. I'm not your typical T2. Have always eaten relatively low carb, BMI of 22, low BP. I'm diagnosed less than a year and the more I read I'm convinced I'm a LADA. Screaming into a void when I raise this with the practice nurse. My HBA1C was 61 at diagnosis and now 52, 6 months in, but I'm on 1000 metformin and following a mostly low carb diet. I can drop from 13 to 3.5 after a short walk and I'm getting increasingly frustrated that nobody in my practice raises eyebrows over this.

LADA is treated as T1D, I would assume you’d be running high over time in that case & not low, Like whatever treatment for T2D would eventually be ineffective then moving onto insulin

 

[ajbod]

If you were LADA, i could not see you having sufficient Insulin to drop your levels that quickly. But by the same token, having so little Insulin resistance, also makes no sense. Not being LADA myself, but vanilla type 2, i have no experience of a honeymoon period, but if it allows wildly varying amounts of Insulin production then perhaps your theory fits. Either way it needs doctors to sort it out, keep banging away at them, eventually they'll probably do the necessary tests just to shut you up.