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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Melgar" data-source="post: 2743209" data-attributes="member: 520626">When you have something carby that sends your blood sugars up, your pancreas releases bolus insulin. Sometimes the pancreas secretes a little too much of this insulin and it over shoots the need for it. The result is your blood sugars start to fall, but falls a little too much and you go low. Because the pancreas works with your liver, like a tag team, your liver senses the falling blood sugars and starts to release glucose so correct the low blood sugars. The pancreas would have stopped secreting insulin at this point. The mild low you had is called a reactive low. Your protein bar may have had artificial sweeteners in it which may have contributed to the insulin overshoot, or not. In any event your liver did what it was supposed to do and corrected the falling blood sugars. It is quite common. Generally It is not a problem for T2’s on say, Metformin, as this drug is very safe and not known for low sugar events, but if you are on insulin or one of the blood sugar lowering drugs that warn you about Hypos then one should be careful and carry something sweet like juice.</blockquote>

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