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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EllieM" data-source="post: 2385128" data-attributes="member: 372717">The reason hypos are bad for T1s are not so much the blood sugar of 3.7 (makes you feel uncomfortable but you're still quite compos mentis) but that the exogenous insulin is your system means that you can go much lower. It's not uncommon/unknown  for non diabetics blood sugar to go that low before meals.Normally a non diabetic will stop producing insulin and produce glucagon when their bg starts going low, which then instructs the liver to produce glycogen (sugar).  Now both metformin and alcohol will inhibit the liver from doing this, so it's not totally surprising that you went slightly low, but I very much doubt that you would have gone down to dangerous levels, even without the nectarine.</blockquote>

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