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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JoKalsbeek" data-source="post: 2748031" data-attributes="member: 401801">For someone with RH, that might still be too many, but I don't know the meds you're on. [USER=585131]@Chris24Main[/USER] has a point, as our resident RH expert can fill you in on all sorts, and in great detail, but to keep it simple for now... The clue is in the name: *Reactive* hypoglycemia. Your pancreas overreacts to carbs. You spike, it releases too much insulin, you hypo, you take more carbs, spike again, more insulin, hello, hypo. It's a vicious circle.  So... Take out the thing your body freaks out to, is the simple answer, more often than not... Now you're just going from spike to low to spike to low. If you eliminate the spikes, there are no more lows. Should get your T2 sorted as well, if at all possible. (I can't get away with 120 grams of carbs as a T2... I'm more at around 20 to 30 grams of carbs a day, total.).Also, type 2 diabetes is a problem of becoming insensitive to your own insulin, because there's so much going around, it doesn't work adequately anymore. It's not entirely uncommon/illogical for RH to precede T2, as both are a mater of too much of a good thing.Personally, I'd say try a ketogenic diet, (20 grams a day or thereabouts), but I have absolutely NO IDEA whether that is a possiblity with the medication you're on, and your doc would likely have me shot for saying so. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> But maybe just dial down the carbs a little, gradually, carefully...? Preferably while wearing a CGM to see what goes on? Might be an idea. It would be a way to find out what works for you and give you some answers. Also, when I was just diagnosed I was eating every three hours on the mark, and that got old, really fast, because three hours is nothing. Snacking and main meals even more often? You're eating all the time! Must interrupt your day-to-day life horribly, I know mine was a wreck on less.Anyway... It's something to mull over until [USER=85785]@Lamont D[/USER] gets on here with more specifics on what happens in your metabolism.Hang in there. It can get better.Jo</blockquote>

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