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Hypoglycemia Related

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kumarv

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Hello,
Greetings!
I want to understand:-

1. Whether a patient having persistent/habituated Hyperglycemia (say 300), if reduce it to much low (say 150) by medication, will he get frank hypoglycemia or hypoglycemia type symptoms? If yes, will his counterregulatory mechanisms be triggered on getting this level of 150?


Best wishes.
 
Yes u may get hypoglycemia like symptoms. Check ur BG, & dont treat if its in 150s... When ur body gets used to normal BG , the pseudohypo symptoms will be gone..

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When bg levels have been running high for a long time and you suddenly reduce them you can experience what they call False Hypo's even when bg levels are within normol range, in time these symptoms do disappear
 
noblehead said:
When bg levels have been running high for a long time and you suddenly reduce them you can experience what they call False Hypo's even when bg levels are within normol range, in time these symptoms do disappear
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Thanks. Will such False Hypo will be same as Frank Hypo triggering counterregulatory mechanisms to Hypoglycemia. It is very important to understand that chronic episodes of Hypoglycemia(Frank or False?) may compromise counterregulatory mechanism--a serois complication. Ref.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_sugar_regulation
 
It looks very important to understand:-
"People whose blood glucose is often high trick their body into thinking this is normal. If they rapidly bring their blood glucose into the normal range their bodies’ trigger the same autonomic and neurological warnings as if their blood glucose had fallen into the danger zone."
http://blog.joslin.org/2012/02/a-false-sense-of-hypoglycemia/
 
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