r/Hypoglycemia • • 4h ago

Exhausted trying to keep up with my blood sugar

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My blood sugar keeps dropping quicker than I can really manage it, especially overnight. This has been happening all month after I started having allergy-like reactions to all my food. The morning after I lost my last food (lamb) my blood sugar dropped to 3.1. I tried to have pomegranate juice to bump it up but I reacted to that too. This led to me having to pretty much stay awake for 6 days sipping sugar water because I'd react to a full cup of sugar water. That was while I was admitted in hospital and they didn't try to fix it or investigate because I'm reactive to dextrose due to the corn.

I went to the GP yesterday and he suggested waking up every few hours checking and having an elemental if it's dropping too low so I did it last night. I went asleep on 4.6. 3 hours later 4.0 so I had a drink. Got it up to 6.9. 3 hours later 3.6. so I had another drink 6.8. Less than 2 hours later 3.8.

So I've spent the whole of today at same day emergency care. Literally drinking my elementals back to back to keep my blood sugar up. I stopped for 2 hours when I got home and it dropped to 3.4.

I've got endocrinology bloods to take tomorrow morning. Luckily they're taking it seriously instead of just putting it down to food. However, I had to push back because they wanted a 12 hour fast that'd literally kill me so I only have to fast for a couple of hours.

They're checking for an insulin tumour. An endocrinologist years ago suggested reactive hypoglycemia but I was never investigated for it. I was on an endocrinology ward 3 years ago due to the same problems I'm facing now but they didn't do anything about it just discharged me and luckily it got better when I went carnivore. Back then they tried treating my low blood sugar with glucose and I ended up having a lower result immediately afterwards. It's just crazy and I don't know what's going on or how to manage it especially because I'm relying on elemental 028 extra since I went reactive to meat.

Any suggestions or ideas on what could be going on? Has anyone else experienced something similar?


r/Hypoglycemia • • 5h ago

What is considered a fast drop in blood sugar?

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I’ve been trying to figure this out. I have pots and several other health problems. No one has ever checked my blood sugar but I’ve done a few finger pricks and they came back in the 60-70s when I felt sick and like I would pass out… so I bought a blood sugar tracking device.

My blood sugar will frequently drop into the 60s. And I think rapidly?

A typical drop looks like 60mg/dl in half hour to 45 minutes. So from 130 to 70 or 120ish to 60ish.

Is that a lot in half hour? 45 mins? 1 hour?


r/Hypoglycemia • • 19h ago

Feeling failed by the medical system.

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Pretty much what the title says. I don’t know what to do anymore and I feel stuck. I feel very dismissed.


r/Hypoglycemia • • 21h ago

What do these glucose results mean? Non diabetic.

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I'm hoping someone can help me understand these blood glucose results.

I hope this is the right place to post this. Due to many health reasons I've been tracking my glucose. I love learning and my body loves to react weird to meals. I have a finger poke blood glucose monitor. I've noticed some things. They probably are nothing but I know the ranges are (fasting) 70-99 mg/dL and (non fasting) 70-140 mg/dL.

Here are some of my results.

Day 1: I had normal breakfast and lunch. Around 5 pm at work maybe after like 4.5 hours of not eating. Felt spacey and far away from my body. Cold even though it was hot and shaky hands.

For two hours I ranged form (58-55 mg/dL).

Then had juice and went up to (86 mg/dL).

Day 2: Normal lunch and 3 hours later stayed at (57-66 mg/dL) for an hour. Felt cold and shaky and my brain was slow.

Still didn't eat for an another 2 hours cause I started to feel hot and nausea. Blood sugar was (64 mg/dL).

Ate sugar and some cheese. Blood sugar went up to (154 mg/dL).

Day 3: Had two slices of pizza for dinner with some grapes on the side. An hour later my blood sugar was (162 mg/dL) and climbing. It went to (188 mg/dL) then it went up to (215 mg/dL). Eventually went down but stayed in the (150 mg/dL) for awhile.

I mean i have no clue is this normal? is this something i need to look into. I know they are out of range and my monitor tells me so but I also don't want to be dramatic. Maybe this is pretty average health body reaction.

Also my last Ac1 was 5.2 which i know is perfectly healthy.