I am obviously a newbie at this!, I recently purchased a glucose meter to test my blood sugar levels but because I have no idea what it is exactly I’m looking for number wise it’s quite difficult for me to figure it all out.
Someone suggested to me to test in the morning and a four hours after eating to see if my blood sugars have dropped.
My doctor has been useless stating I don’t have diabetes and is reluctant to believe in reactive Hypoglycemia.
But the experiences I have had for years all point to reactive Hypoglycemia I’ve passed out a few times and felt dizzy if I haven’t eaten or get extremely sweaty and confused and as a result I end up binge eating loads of **** food to make me feel better if this isn’t reactive Hypoglycemia or diabetes then what is it?
Hi again, until you have a real true diagnosis, no one has a clue what it is, only speculation. If your doctor is not sure, surely a referral to a specialist would be necessary!
Anyway, now you need to know how to use a glucometer and a food diary.
There are apps on how to do this but the old fashioned way with pen and paper is okay.
Always test before you eat, this is your pre meal test, you log it.
Then at first, you test at one hour, then two hours.
This will show you at those specific times how your blood glucose levels react to what you have eaten. Follow this until you are satisfied with the hour test of that particular meal, only use the two hour test.
You have to be a bit regimented to see results that you should be getting if you have Hypoglycaemia.
If you haven't eaten, your pre meal reading should be within normal levels.
Your one hour will vary because of the portion size of that meal and how high you spike because of the protein, carbs and fats within the meal.
At two hours if your levels are higher than 2mmols than your pre meal reading, then there is something in that meal is causing your blood levels to be too high and should be avoided. Either by lowering portion size or all together if you find you are intolerant to that food, which will probably be ,starchy vegetables, wheat and grain, anything with sugar in, the foods that turn to glucose very quickly.
There is more detail in the forum sticky about testing.
Ok, the three hour and four hour tests are for you to discover if and when your insulin response has overshoot to send you to hypo. This will happen if you have previously eaten something that triggers the insulin response you don't really want. Because if you eat a very low carb meal and don't trigger the reaction, you won't go hypo.
If you are similar to my Hypoglycaemia, if you don't spike, you don't hypo.
Hope this helps.
Keep asking.
