Hi im new here and I'm hoping I can get some advice please.
I'm 33 and For years since age 14 I've had reactive hypoglycaemia confirmed on my glucose meter and a few years back on glucose tolerance test. They measured insulin at the time too and said it was excessively high at the two hour reading but my glucose was borderline.
To cut a long street short I get a lot of low blood glucose levels, so I would eat something it would go high at about 1 hour day to 10mmol and then drop low by three hours say to about 3mmol. I was so tiered of this I decided to go low carb but I now realise I went to low, for a year I've been only eating salad and carrots as my carbs and absolutely no other carbs sugar nothing, it was nice not to experience the dramatic swings but I was always be running between 3.5-4.5 all day and I felt I was drained.
Iv recently decided I need to eat more carbs and actually try to sort out properly any underlying problem there may be.
I'm only eating a max 4 tablespoons of whole grain rice or a. Purple of small pots it's now with a meal.
So these are examples of what's been has happening since iv introduced some carbs the past few months.
For lunch I usually eat salmon, cucumber lettuce I egg and 3 tablespoons rice and I feel very sleepy after.
Dinner I eat similar kind of things meat fish with veg and three nights ago I eat roast chicken carrots green beans and 3 small roast potatoes I felt extreme fatigue fell asleep and my partner tested my glucose and it was 14.8 at 90 minutes.
I woke and felt extreme hunger and had to eat so instead of binging on carbs I eat bacon and egg.
Last night I eat a small bowl of high protein cereal and a small bag of walkers plain crisps as I keep craving salt and I was very hungry after dinner again , I then Got very sleepy and went to bed This morning my fasting is 6.8 and when I was eating no carbs it would run in low 4
I'm finding when I don't eat my glucose gets too low but as soon as I eat anything with carbs I feel unwell. But if I eat low carb I just run at nearly hypo and have no ebergy either.
Here's symptoms I have but unsure if linked at all
Excess sleeping after eating any carbs apart from salad
Blurred vision especially in the evenings can't see the tv properly or read the writing on it
Mood swings
Breaking out in sweats (I usually find it hard to sweat)
Excess hunger after meals
Underweight,( I thought you put on weight but I'm under and can't keep it on)
I don't feel excessly thirsty but if I don't drink 2 litres a day I feel very dehydrated.
I don't think I go to wee any more than other people. And I do drink 2 litres water a day so I would wee
Many thanks for reading my lengthy post and your help would be much apreciated. Thanks
I'm 33 and For years since age 14 I've had reactive hypoglycaemia confirmed on my glucose meter and a few years back on glucose tolerance test. They measured insulin at the time too and said it was excessively high at the two hour reading but my glucose was borderline.
To cut a long street short I get a lot of low blood glucose levels, so I would eat something it would go high at about 1 hour day to 10mmol and then drop low by three hours say to about 3mmol. I was so tiered of this I decided to go low carb but I now realise I went to low, for a year I've been only eating salad and carrots as my carbs and absolutely no other carbs sugar nothing, it was nice not to experience the dramatic swings but I was always be running between 3.5-4.5 all day and I felt I was drained.
Iv recently decided I need to eat more carbs and actually try to sort out properly any underlying problem there may be.
I'm only eating a max 4 tablespoons of whole grain rice or a. Purple of small pots it's now with a meal.
So these are examples of what's been has happening since iv introduced some carbs the past few months.
For lunch I usually eat salmon, cucumber lettuce I egg and 3 tablespoons rice and I feel very sleepy after.
Dinner I eat similar kind of things meat fish with veg and three nights ago I eat roast chicken carrots green beans and 3 small roast potatoes I felt extreme fatigue fell asleep and my partner tested my glucose and it was 14.8 at 90 minutes.
I woke and felt extreme hunger and had to eat so instead of binging on carbs I eat bacon and egg.
Last night I eat a small bowl of high protein cereal and a small bag of walkers plain crisps as I keep craving salt and I was very hungry after dinner again , I then Got very sleepy and went to bed This morning my fasting is 6.8 and when I was eating no carbs it would run in low 4
I'm finding when I don't eat my glucose gets too low but as soon as I eat anything with carbs I feel unwell. But if I eat low carb I just run at nearly hypo and have no ebergy either.
Here's symptoms I have but unsure if linked at all
Excess sleeping after eating any carbs apart from salad
Blurred vision especially in the evenings can't see the tv properly or read the writing on it
Mood swings
Breaking out in sweats (I usually find it hard to sweat)
Excess hunger after meals
Underweight,( I thought you put on weight but I'm under and can't keep it on)
I don't feel excessly thirsty but if I don't drink 2 litres a day I feel very dehydrated.
I don't think I go to wee any more than other people. And I do drink 2 litres water a day so I would wee
Many thanks for reading my lengthy post and your help would be much apreciated. Thanks