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<blockquote data-quote="frenchlady" data-source="post: 928239" data-attributes="member: 83164"><p>Of course you can have the symptoms of a hypo, even if you are not a diabetic. Low blood sugar is low blood sugar. When I was very young, I had - what I now know to be - hypos. Please see:- <a href="http://www.hormone.org/questions-and-answers/2013/nondiabetic-hypoglycaemia" target="_blank">http://www.hormone.org/questions-and-answers/2013/nondiabetic-hypoglycaemia</a> OR there was this online :- </p><p> <strong> </strong></p><p><strong>While people who do not have any metabolic problems can complain of symptoms suggestive of low blood sugar, true hypoglycemia usually occurs in people being treated for <a href="http://www.medicinenet.com/diabetes_mellitus/article.htm" target="_blank"><u>diabetes</u></a> (type 1 and type 2). Individuals with pre-<a href="http://www.medicinenet.com/type_2_diabetes_pictures_slideshow/article.htm" target="_blank"><u>diabetes</u></a> who have <a href="http://www.medicinenet.com/insulin/article.htm" target="_blank"><u>insulin</u></a> resistance can also have low blood sugars on occasion if their high circulating insulin levels are further challenged by a prolonged period of fasting. </strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Despite advances in the treatment of diabetes, hypoglycemic episodes are often the limiting factor in achieving optimal blood sugar control, because many medications that are effective in treating diabetes carry the risk of lowering the blood sugar level too much, causing symptoms of hypoglycemia. In large scale studies looking at tight control in both type 1 and <a href="http://www.medicinenet.com/diabetes_mellitus/article.htm" target="_blank"><u>type 2 diabetes</u></a>, low blood sugars occurred more often in the patients who were managed most intensively. This is important for patients and physicians to recognize, especially as the goal for treating patients with diabetes becomes tighter control of blood sugar.</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="frenchlady, post: 928239, member: 83164"] Of course you can have the symptoms of a hypo, even if you are not a diabetic. Low blood sugar is low blood sugar. When I was very young, I had - what I now know to be - hypos. Please see:- [URL]http://www.hormone.org/questions-and-answers/2013/nondiabetic-hypoglycaemia[/URL] OR there was this online :- [B] While people who do not have any metabolic problems can complain of symptoms suggestive of low blood sugar, true hypoglycemia usually occurs in people being treated for [URL='http://www.medicinenet.com/diabetes_mellitus/article.htm'][U]diabetes[/U][/URL] (type 1 and type 2). Individuals with pre-[URL='http://www.medicinenet.com/type_2_diabetes_pictures_slideshow/article.htm'][U]diabetes[/U][/URL] who have [URL='http://www.medicinenet.com/insulin/article.htm'][U]insulin[/U][/URL] resistance can also have low blood sugars on occasion if their high circulating insulin levels are further challenged by a prolonged period of fasting. Despite advances in the treatment of diabetes, hypoglycemic episodes are often the limiting factor in achieving optimal blood sugar control, because many medications that are effective in treating diabetes carry the risk of lowering the blood sugar level too much, causing symptoms of hypoglycemia. In large scale studies looking at tight control in both type 1 and [URL='http://www.medicinenet.com/diabetes_mellitus/article.htm'][U]type 2 diabetes[/U][/URL], low blood sugars occurred more often in the patients who were managed most intensively. This is important for patients and physicians to recognize, especially as the goal for treating patients with diabetes becomes tighter control of blood sugar.[/B] [/QUOTE]
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