Lamont D
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- Type of diabetes
- Reactive hypoglycemia
- Treatment type
- I do not have diabetes
Using a BG meter, I feel, would really help you here. Although I can't find it right now, there is a You Tube video that provides a study about how people feel they have low BG and so it makes them think they need to eat. The study showed how this wasn't actually the case, it was a pretty high percentage that the BG was in a good range, not low at all. Maybe if you had tested you would have seen your BG was in a good range and that would most likely be comforting to know. I know for me I've tested a few times when I thought my sugar was low and the test showed it was in the mid 6s.
I agree about the glucometer and have advised this with using a food diary, because they will help with your GP.
I can tell what it is like having low blood sugar levels. I didn't know what it was til I was diagnosed. It's really horrible, I call them years my hypo hell.
When your blood sugar levels go up and down all day, hyper then hypo, every time you eat, even if you don't go hypo because the brain is permanently telling you to eat, because it believes the signal to create more insulin is necessary and the way to do that is to eat. More hormonal response, once you start eating breakfast that is it for the rest of the day, up and down.
That is not the only symptom, there are many others that exacerbate your feelings.
Quite a few that affects the brain, and more symptoms similar to type two diabetes.
There is always the risk of coma, if the brain doesn't correct the imbalances.
For some reason, my body has a reset, which is usually in deep sleep. Unless I have a bad night.
Since diagnosis and going Keto, these symptoms have gone. But every now and then I do want to eat the inside of a fridge!!