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Confused - low blood sugar

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weggy

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Hi all

Bit confused here. T2, not taking any form of oral hypoglycaemics (came off metformin 6 weeks ago) but have just had that familiar old feeling - sweating, shaky, light headed.... tested my BG and was a bit surprised to find it 3.4 mmol/l. What's that all about? Had a decent lunch, low carb with potato as the source of carbs... have just been sitting at my desk all day, nothing phyiscal at all...

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I tend to agree with Timo, if this was a couple or three hours after eating, this is what I used to do: shoot up high and then crash low.

Nowadays without the highs I am still almost functional around the mid threes but somewhere around there I can fall off a cliff.

A relevent post from Michael Eades I found recently

http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/suga ... -of-sugar/
 
Thanks to you both.

That Dr Eades article is very interesting. Shame it doesnt refer to mmol/l but I get what he's saying
 
weggy said:
Thanks to you both.

That Dr Eades article is very interesting. Shame it doesnt refer to mmol/l but I get what he's saying
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Sorry, those of us who have been around for a while have learned to multiply and divide by 18 in our sleep . . .
 
Hope you don't mind me jumping in here, I have just found out I have Pre diabetes and I have also been suffering from the symptoms of what seemed like a hypo but without the low BG :? .Yesterday I was on another diabetes web page and come across a very similar question. I can't tell you how good it is to know I'm not going mad; I was told that only diabetics’ had hypo's so to be honest I started to think I was a hypochondriac , but my symptoms where real and so similar it was uncanny. The link was very useful and has taken a weight of my mind. :mrgreen:
 
Part of the symptoms of a hypo come from the actual lack of glucose in the blood. The rest are caused by a dump of neuroendocrines like adrenalin and cortisol. The latter effect can be caused by a rapid drop in BG even if it doesn't reach anywhere like "genuine" hypo levels
 
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