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Message: <blockquote data-quote="clearviews" data-source="post: 112346" data-attributes="member: 20752">I freely admit I am a newbie trying to understand T2.  I did think that the original line was that unmedicated T2 were not likely to 'Hypo'.  I really thought that a 'hypo' was passing out, convulsions etc and not the symptoms that warned of low blood glucose levels, so apologies to Culigula for not getting that.My reservations about professionals and hypo advice goes back 25 years.  Seven year old daughter on six occasions, when overdue to eat, felt 'sick', became unconcious, convulsed and stayed out to it for up to 40 mins.  Had raft of tests including epilepsy, nothing abnormal noted, was put on glucose drip at begining of fast for a general aneasthetic and right throughout op ending up with a BGL of only 2. something 24 hours later while still on drip.  Sent to endocrinologist who when I asked if she was having hypoglycemic episodes said that she didn't and that true hypoglycemia was very rare and was a bit of a 'fad disease'.  I asked what was causing the blackouts and he told me to take her to a pschyc......  We did and she could find no cause either.  So in the absense of any helpful advice I continued to trust my gut feeling and feed her as if she had hypoglycemia, small meals often with plenty of complex carbs.  Today at aged 32 she works physically hard as a Park Ranger and is a firefighter in her time off!  She is not coeliac but wheat plays merry hell with her as does fruit, yeast, sugar and so on.  Candida Albicans seem to fit the pic but one medical professional tell her it is a 'fad disease' and go see a pschyc while another gets a positive test result!  A low carb diet is working wonders and I know we are only interested in diabetes here but the cross overs are many and perhaps this might explain my lack of understanding of what a hypo really is.</blockquote>

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