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- Type of diabetes
- Reactive hypoglycemia
- Treatment type
- Diet only
Very excited to say that my hypoglycaemia has reversed after treatment for my stomach infections! I can now eat bread, oats, rice, fruit occasional sugary treat ect. I thought this could be useful info incase SIBO is a causing factor for anyone else’s hypoglycaemia. I was originally intolerant to carbs and would very rapidly shoot up and then plummet low, now the rise and fall is far slower and I don’t seem to go low. I am running, horse riding, going to the gym and long walks no problem- this would have been impossible before as I would just go low and I had very little energy. Worked with a gut doctor and decided to go down the route of more gentle / natural antibiotics as they’re less likely to agitate my gut flora even more by wiping out the remaining good bacteria! As well as this I have been taking the HU58 probiotic along with a few other supplements; the SIBO caused vitamin deficiencies due to malabsorption which explains some of my other symptoms. The “natural” antibiotics did work, it just took a while to see progress so a bit of a waiting game. Everything was very gradual, especially with what foods I could tolerate.
Even though I have reintroduced carbs into my diet I still tend to opt for slow release or pair them with a protein or fat source in attempts to continue keep things steady. My original very low carb diet was hard, but necessary at the time and would have also helped to starve off some of the bad bacteria.
I had hydrogen dominant SIBO so it was easy to tell how much of it I had left via breath testing. I’ve attached screenshots of my original breath test and more recent! SIBO has only just become recognised by the NHS and is not too understood, the effect it had on me was awful to the point I had to drop out of uni for a year! they can test for it via breath test.
Personally I had to go down the private healthcare route since I was very ill and wasn’t getting any help from the NHS. I’d urge anyone struggling with digestive discomfort alongside their hypoglycaemia to consider doing the same if possible.
Hope this could all be useful information for someone, sending my best wishes and happy to answer any questions
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Even though I have reintroduced carbs into my diet I still tend to opt for slow release or pair them with a protein or fat source in attempts to continue keep things steady. My original very low carb diet was hard, but necessary at the time and would have also helped to starve off some of the bad bacteria.
I had hydrogen dominant SIBO so it was easy to tell how much of it I had left via breath testing. I’ve attached screenshots of my original breath test and more recent! SIBO has only just become recognised by the NHS and is not too understood, the effect it had on me was awful to the point I had to drop out of uni for a year! they can test for it via breath test.
Personally I had to go down the private healthcare route since I was very ill and wasn’t getting any help from the NHS. I’d urge anyone struggling with digestive discomfort alongside their hypoglycaemia to consider doing the same if possible.
Hope this could all be useful information for someone, sending my best wishes and happy to answer any questions
)
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Popped a libre on to see how i’m getting on and did some experimenting, I can eat pretty much anything. This was after eating a bit of millionaires shortbread, it tasted blindly sweet after having cut sugar out for a while and wasn’t very nice but I was curious to see if I’d go hypoglycaemic after it, I didn’t! You can also see by the nature of the graph I seem to be digesting food a lot better. If I get super hungry or have a meal late I will still go fairly low but I think that’s pretty normal. 
I’ve said it before but I am genuinely fascinated by the effect gut dysbiosis can have on the endocrine system, I lost my period too for months (although that could have been down to stress or strange diet) and have only recently just had it come back. Also showed clear signs of malnutrition even though I was eating plenty- which just pushed so many things out of whack. Think the NHS should definitely prioritise looking into these sorts of things more, I lived a healthy and active lifestyle and had/have pretty good diet, it can happen to anyone. 
