Hi everyone,
I'm new to this forum, and pretty much to everything blood sugar measuring related. Tonight at home we're in front with a very rare case and I would really appreciate your insight.
My girlfriend is 34, she was just diagnosed with dysautonomia and inappropriate sinus tachycardia 8 years after a gastric sleeve surgery that went wrong, her diet is very discreet, she eats probably 15% of the food quantities what most people usually eat. Her overall health is lately worrying, we are seeing a variety of doctors but symptoms from the heart conditions are still hard to handle.
Her cardiologist suggested that she may be suffering from very low sugar levels, hence the tachycardia, low energy, weakness and unclear thinking.
We got her first glucose meter a couple of days ago. On her first reading after dinner her level was 80 mg/dl - no worries here.
This afternoon at 3pm, when she was feeling very weak and with tachycardia, maybe a couple of hours after a very thin pasta + cheese breakfast, her levels were down to 45 mg/dl - following the doctor's recommendation, she started drinking fruit juice and eating a twinkie.
Tonight, at 10pm, she was down to 56 mg/dL again, so she got half a glass of mango juice, half a twinkie and maybe 3 or 4 cranberries. These are the only things she's had all day, nothing else (I know it's not good to fast being an hypoglycemia episode, but she's really hard to convince when it comes to well eating after that gastric sleeve surgery, unfortunately).
Half an hour later, at 11:30 pm, her blood sugar level spiked up to 214 mg/dl. We honestly freaked out, but she was feeling well. She measured her level again, and at 11:38pm she was at 148 mg/dL. Half an hour after that, she was already down to 107 mg/dL.
We are pretty new to this, and I would really appreciate any insight on sugar level blood variations - is it even physically possible for her blood volume to have changed from 56 mg/dL to 215 mg/dL in 90 minutes with just half a twinkie and 4 oz of fruit juice? And then down to 148 mg/dL in just 10 minutes?
Of course I'm suspecting a wrong reading, but I can't take it for granted without more information.
We have a new Accu-check activate with strips that are away from the expiry date, her hands were just washed and the glucometer was also clean. No weird weather, just high Mexico City altitude.
I've been doing my Google searches and trying to find a trustable doctor to ask to, but due to the uniqueness of this situation, any opinion will add up. We're of course contacting her cardio first thing in the morning (as long as no emergency visit is needed tonight, hopefully).
Thank you so much for taking the time to read through this, I really appreciate it.
Alex
I'm new to this forum, and pretty much to everything blood sugar measuring related. Tonight at home we're in front with a very rare case and I would really appreciate your insight.
My girlfriend is 34, she was just diagnosed with dysautonomia and inappropriate sinus tachycardia 8 years after a gastric sleeve surgery that went wrong, her diet is very discreet, she eats probably 15% of the food quantities what most people usually eat. Her overall health is lately worrying, we are seeing a variety of doctors but symptoms from the heart conditions are still hard to handle.
Her cardiologist suggested that she may be suffering from very low sugar levels, hence the tachycardia, low energy, weakness and unclear thinking.
We got her first glucose meter a couple of days ago. On her first reading after dinner her level was 80 mg/dl - no worries here.
This afternoon at 3pm, when she was feeling very weak and with tachycardia, maybe a couple of hours after a very thin pasta + cheese breakfast, her levels were down to 45 mg/dl - following the doctor's recommendation, she started drinking fruit juice and eating a twinkie.
Tonight, at 10pm, she was down to 56 mg/dL again, so she got half a glass of mango juice, half a twinkie and maybe 3 or 4 cranberries. These are the only things she's had all day, nothing else (I know it's not good to fast being an hypoglycemia episode, but she's really hard to convince when it comes to well eating after that gastric sleeve surgery, unfortunately).
Half an hour later, at 11:30 pm, her blood sugar level spiked up to 214 mg/dl. We honestly freaked out, but she was feeling well. She measured her level again, and at 11:38pm she was at 148 mg/dL. Half an hour after that, she was already down to 107 mg/dL.
We are pretty new to this, and I would really appreciate any insight on sugar level blood variations - is it even physically possible for her blood volume to have changed from 56 mg/dL to 215 mg/dL in 90 minutes with just half a twinkie and 4 oz of fruit juice? And then down to 148 mg/dL in just 10 minutes?
Of course I'm suspecting a wrong reading, but I can't take it for granted without more information.
We have a new Accu-check activate with strips that are away from the expiry date, her hands were just washed and the glucometer was also clean. No weird weather, just high Mexico City altitude.
I've been doing my Google searches and trying to find a trustable doctor to ask to, but due to the uniqueness of this situation, any opinion will add up. We're of course contacting her cardio first thing in the morning (as long as no emergency visit is needed tonight, hopefully).
Thank you so much for taking the time to read through this, I really appreciate it.
Alex
