Help Interpreting Test Results. Could this be LADA?

@Lamont D Got it! Much appreciated.

Hi @andcol,

Interesting thought. My normal diet is low carb, maybe very low carb but I've never actually calculated anything. The only carbs I've been eating recently are above ground vegetables and occasionally some fruit.( Oh, and carrots too.) So, I did break my normal routine to run these tests.

On the other hand, many years ago I did see similar glucose spikes after eating candy. At that time, I was on a normal diet.

The one thing I know is I feel much better not eating a lot of carby food, and since once I start eating carbs the urge to eat more is irresistible, I find it is easiest just to avoid them completely.

Yeah, I imagine I will get sent back to the endo that I saw last month. Cheers.

Update: I saw the GP today. She said the high spikes in blood sugar could be an early sign of type II. She suggested I take another glucose tolerance test to try to catch the spike at 1hr. I hesitated since

• I already know there is going to be spike
  
• I don't think going hypo again is good for me ( if that happens )
• I don't need another one of these bruises for no reason.

She said I could think about it. I asked about testing for LADA too. After a confusing discussion on the definition of LADA, my suggestion was dismissed. She did say she would speak to an endo about it, though.

Well, there ya go! Although I didn't get the testing I wanted, the rest of the appointment concerning stuff unrelated to diabetes went well.

@Mweirum

I hope you see this at some point. Sorry for the very late response. I haven't visited here for a long while.

At the time my previous posts on this thread were written, I was diagnosed with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome ( POTS ) and with "hypoglycemia" based on the GTT results. My doc did not make any connection whatsoever between the two.

Since then, it has become apparent there is a connection. POTS is a form of autonomic dysfunction. It is very likely that part of the dysfunction involves "rapid gastric emptying" or "gastric dumping," where the contents of the stomach are dumped too quickly into the small intestine leading to spikes in blood sugar when high carb meals are eaten.

Here is a nice lecture from a PotsUK conference which lays out the connection.

Although I went hypo with the GTT, I never caught a significant hypo with home testing after eating regular meals. I tend to spike a lot with moderate carb meals though. I think many of my symptoms were more the result of rapid spikes and fluctuations of blood sugar, rather than simply being too low.

Anyway, the actual cause doesn't seem to matter. The solution is the same: LCHF diet. I still have POTS, but keeping my blood sugar under control keeps my symptoms way down.

Hope this helps.

Thanks @Lamont D

I should have paid more attention to your now 2-year old post.

Lamont D said:

There is condition called dumping syndrome akin to RH!

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You are some kind of prophet! I didn't really figure this out until a year later.

Cheers