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Is this a phenomenon anyone has? (caffeine-reactive hypoglycaemia)
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<blockquote data-quote="Ellenor2000" data-source="post: 2077401" data-attributes="member: 508208"><p>I ended up not needing to - I found the baggie of strips I had.</p><p></p><p>I don't know what the mechanism is of caffeine causing a hypo but I have no reason to suspect you'd be vulnerable to it given the metabolic circumstances (my system is, as far as I know, completely normal, whereas you have to inject insulin to not go into a metabolic acidosis). Feel free to try if you can get some regular tea down the hatch and have a bystander with a glucagon pen, though.</p><p></p><p>As far as hot chocolate goes, I don't put sugar in mine; I put an erythritol-based sweetener in it instead. If I put sugar in it (as I put black treacle this time and this time only in my drink of double cream, Balkan yoghurt and vanilla flavoring - ordinarily if I'm gonna mix anything with those three it's going to be cottage cheese blenderised with some of the yoghurt. Clearly I'm not on a ketogenic sort of diet at the moment) I would expect to see a rise (and the strip tests corroborate that).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ellenor2000, post: 2077401, member: 508208"] I ended up not needing to - I found the baggie of strips I had. I don't know what the mechanism is of caffeine causing a hypo but I have no reason to suspect you'd be vulnerable to it given the metabolic circumstances (my system is, as far as I know, completely normal, whereas you have to inject insulin to not go into a metabolic acidosis). Feel free to try if you can get some regular tea down the hatch and have a bystander with a glucagon pen, though. As far as hot chocolate goes, I don't put sugar in mine; I put an erythritol-based sweetener in it instead. If I put sugar in it (as I put black treacle this time and this time only in my drink of double cream, Balkan yoghurt and vanilla flavoring - ordinarily if I'm gonna mix anything with those three it's going to be cottage cheese blenderised with some of the yoghurt. Clearly I'm not on a ketogenic sort of diet at the moment) I would expect to see a rise (and the strip tests corroborate that). [/QUOTE]
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