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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Suzy D" data-source="post: 2737115" data-attributes="member: 594066">Hi Lamont, This is all of interest, thank you! I am especially glad to learn that the test ends once a hypo has been established. Though I sometimes come out of mild hypos without waking up if they catch me out at night. But pure glucose, I shudder to think how spiky that will look in my monitor app! As you say, the nurse may not have come across reactive hypoglycaemia before, unless specially instructed I suppose, so it makes sense to share my concern with him/her. I am intolerant to gluten and dairy so will bring my own hamper for the meal at the end: a hearty stew is likely to work best. And I won't shy away from saying to the nurse that I am think a hypo may well occur. I have my libre link so am able to keep a bit of an eye on it myself if I want to, even though I know they can be 15% off and also 15 minutes behind actual BS level. I thought I might keep Wednesday's episode of Shetland on BB1 to watch during my test on Thursday, that will keep me distracted for an hour!I was referred for the glucose tolerance test because I was able to present lots of data to the endocrinologist: libre link data with lots of peaks and troughs, blood test results of lots other stuff done by my GP surgery, a list of unpleasant symptoms, and what I knew from doing the Zoe programme two years ago: my blood sugar control is poor. It was also the Zoe programme that alerted me to the existence of libre link, how handy is that when you want to have a rough idea what's going on! My friend got a monitor for a fortnight as well but she is completely different: her blood sugar goes up and stays up and she is close to prediabetes. Which always seems like a luxury to me now: oh to have a slot and steady insulin response! : /</blockquote>

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