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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ziggy_w" data-source="post: 2328630" data-attributes="member: 323454">Hi [USER=468355]@NotBeyonce[/USER],I agree, what you are experiencing is a bit confusing.These are some of my thoughts (and I largely agree with [USER=504712]@ert[/USER] on this):As other have said, low fasting insulin can be due to the inability to produce sufficient insulin. However, combined with the fact that your fasting blood sugars are very low (much lower than for most of us low carbers), I not really sure there is reason for concern. It is possible that your body just doesn't need to produce more insulin to keep fasting levels normal -- so in my mind your low fasting insulin levels tend to be more based on a lack of demand for more insulin (rather an inability to produce more insulin) -- possibly as a result of a low carb diet and almost optimal insulin sensitivity. (Anyway that would be my guess -- of course this is not meant to be a diagnosis).Also, the fact that your metabolism is able to bring down higher blood sugar levels to hypo levels (without medication if I read your post correctly) seems to point towards an adequate insulin production (though you might also want to consider whether you might even possibly overproduce insulin in response to food or in response to higher blood sugar levels).I also tend to agree with you that it sounds a lot more like reactive hypoglycemia than what you would normally see in traditional T2s (though I have to admit I'm not really knowledgeable on this, but maybe [USER=41816]@Brunneria[/USER] and [USER=85785]@Lamont D[/USER] can chime in as our resident experts on this). How many grams of carbs are you having on average per meal? Is it possible that your carb intake is still high enough to cause these blood sugar swings?</blockquote>

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