I don’t know what is going on. I was feeling shaky and hypo. Luckily I had brought my meter to work with me, having had a similar previous experience but without the meter. I tested, and was sitting at 3.0 mmol (54) . I told myself not to panic, and tested another finger - 2.9 mmol (52.2).
Okay, now I am panicking. Why is my sugar so low? I haven’t been this low for a long time - even when I was on insulin. I’m not diabetic, according to the very good endo. I haven’t taken any insulin for weeks. I was feeling a bit stressed. Do normal and non-D people drop this low? Interesting that it is happening at my regular morning low time.
First congratulations, I have just learned that you are not diabetic anymore and that is was induced by medication.
The odd thing is that you are going low now. Non D people should not drop this low under normal circumstances. Their insulin production should decrease and their liver will release little amounts of its glucose deposits. This could mean that you are in an adoption phase. Maybe your insulet cells are just overreacting since they have learned that even under high production levels your BG is not dropping. In this case the reaction should normalize over time and you could compensate that with small meals in between. Another thing worth to investigate is the deposit level of the liver. Maybe you are low carbing and the deposits are not building up sufficiently like they are expected to.
Thanks for the feedback, Holger. I stopped taking insulin midway through December, so it’s been over a month now. This is the first bad low I’ve had since stopping the insulin.
I’m not low carbing. I didn’t exercise the day before. I didn’t drink for at least three days before this happened. My fasting BS this morning was 5.9 (106). My endo was going to run a 72 hour fasting test because I had mild hypos (3.7-3.9, or 66-70), but after I coped so well for a month I decided I didn’t need it. But, then again, I was on holiday and eating small meals and snacks all the time. Perhaps I will have to have the test now!
Hi Megan I was hypoglycemic for 16 years before I became hyperglycemic and required insulin. The hypoglycemia was a handful to deal with I had to limit my sugars more then then I do now with insulin since to much would send me crashing. Asked your Endo to do a GTC sugar test. You drink a sugar solution and they check your blood and urine every hour for 5 hours not the 3 hour as many hypoglycemics do not go low until the 4th or 5th hours. If it is true hypoglycemia you will show a pattern within that time in most cases. Also eat every couple of hours split your meals into 2 so you get about 6 over all.
Keep in touch with what happens and let use know.
Be loved
