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False hypos

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abs

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Today thought i was having a hypo was shaking, feeling sick and all the signs i normally get for them however checked my levels because i knew they had been high not long before and they were in fact dead on 6.0 so nowhere near a hypo. My levels have not been below 6 all weekend and today so just wondering if the fact that the past 3 days they have been high my body has started to get used to them being higher again and lead to that false sense of having a hypo? I normally can pick a hypo up straight away, and have very up and down levels however hopefully changing insulin and the fact that im no longer under stress this should begin to change. Just feels a bit like a backward step as when i got diagnosed any levels below 9 made me feel really ill.
 
Strange, you can experience 'false hypo's' if you've been running high bg over a period of time, I would have tested again just to be sure the first reading of 6 was correct.
 
Hi!

This is going to sound really odd, but I have experienced this too (Blood sugars have run high and when ive managed to correct them, felt low (But havnt been, running aorund the 4.5 - 6 mark), however... This has been my situation.

Bloods run high,
Correct with rapid acting
Feel a bit low
Test @ 4.5 - 6 mmol
Suddenly within minutes relax and feel better,

Ive put this down to being in my mind a tad and as soon as its confirmed that my bloods are OK via test I usually feel better. Almost like the placebo effect .. ish , kind of..
 
I felt fine today, BS on waking was 7.0, had a meal of bacon, egg, homemade tomato soup with butterbeans. Felt great, went to visit a friend, had cottage cheese and tomatoes with cream for tea, later on had strawbs. Tested twice while I was there and my BS was 6.5 2 hours after tea. I had a coffee with cream but later on in the evening I began to feel really sick and giddy and then got spasm type pains in my tummy. I still feel sick and not quite right. Tested again and was 5.5. which is very low for me and I use a Codefree which tests high anyway. Usually when I feel like this I have a cup of coffee with cream and a snack and feel OK but that hasn't worked this time. I still feel sick and jittery.

Anyone got any ideas?
 
my son gets this sometimes. Normally we find that his levels have dropped quickly which does give you the same feeling.
 
Hello, blood glucose metres do not give 100% accurate readings and can sometimes give false readings but are reasonably close to your actual blood glucose level. If you feel hypoglycemic then you are hypoglycemic, don't 100% trust your meter and washing hands and changing lancets improves accuracy of the result.
 
I spent a while where I used to run pretty high BG's all the time (around the 18-20 mark) and I'd feel like going hypo if my BGs dropped to around 8-10. Ive found that my body will show signs of when my BG has dropped a certain amount, not when my BG's are under 4 which is the medical value of being hypo.

James
 
I've had this sometimes, I think of it as a 'relative hypo'. ie. my bloods have been a bit high and then a sudden drop leads my body to have hypos around 4.6 or 5.2.
 
I hypo 2 to 3 times a day and the specialists always bring this 'relative hypo' up as a first cause, so it is a real thing.

according to them, even if you are having a high blood sugar situation, if it drops rapidly then the body can experience a hypo even though your blood sugars are not dropping below the normal,

doesn't apply in my case though, as when I test I am at 1.4 or similar so it is a real hypo.
 


Would agree with this, particularly during the night. I've checked it and it's 8 or 10 . But in my case I know if I leve it , usually menas it will drop furhter and then becomea real hypo coiple of hours later.
 
I get these 'relative hypos' too, sometimes mixed with anxiety it makes me feel really badly hypo.

However, I also had a suspected faulty meter and was nearly collapsing in Tesco when my meter said 6 one day. I ate a Twix and had Lucozade then when I felt okay, I went home. When I got home tested with another meter and my sugar was around 6 again so I think the meter was faulty so maybe control check your meter with the solution.
 
I get it when my levels drop fast. It's good actually, even though at that point in time my level is fine, I can tell it's dropping.
 
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