I spent a few days with my daughter while I was packing up my stuff from my old house. She has been having what she thought were hypo attacks. Now that I have looked at her numbers and had several meals with her I don't think that is the case. I think they are caused by a drop from higher bg to something more normal, giving her hypo symptoms.
I am having her test often during the day. For a diabetic her numbers are good but they seem too high to be normal. She seems to range between 100 and 140. So far, she hasn't dropped below 95 nor gone over 145. She had a hypo feeling at 110 the other day. I remember another one she had she was in the 90s.
She had an A1C done last year and she doesn't remember what it was but the dr. said it was normal. Her hypo symptoms are sometimes alleviated with a glucose tab or two. The other day she took a couple of tabs and still didn't feel better. She ended up somewhere having a drink and felt better. I'm wondering if she was high since alcohol often causes my bg to drop a bit.
She should be getting insurance at this new job soon and I told her she should probably go see a dr. and bring in a log of what she has been eating (she logs her food on myfitnesspal) along with her bg and show them.
I thought normal bg should stay under 140 and rarely be that high. It seems that when I search for normal levels it is primarily between 70 and 100 with a few spikes for super carby meals. She will hit 135 eating maybe 15 grams at a meal.
I mean I am not a doctor, or a parent, but I'd be concerned if she's getting 140's , particularly 2 hours after a meal or more or even worse while fasting. Like she should get to a doctor ASAP and discuss it with them, where if she isn't diabetic that'd be relief to know. She needs to though as soon as possible because she COULD be a type 1 if she is a diabetic and going without insulin is a bad idea. I have the personal joy (ahaha not) of being diagnosed at 22 with type 1 so I worry when people talk about having these kind of symptoms and blood sugar readings in their early 20's.
This is good that she is logging things and keeping track of things. She should go to a dr. as soon as she gets health insurance or even sooner, and keep track of things closely until then to avoid dka or really high bg as Sensorium said.
I’ll be the odd one out here and say that those sound perfectly normal to me… And having “hypo” symptoms in the 90s probably are some other type of symptoms altogether
My T2 is not very normal either so it doesn't surprise me that my kids are having problems early. I was looking at some of my old medical records and it is likely I would have been diagnosed in my late 20s if today's standards were used.
Activity and low carb eating have never controlled my bg on its own. Both of my daughters are in a reasonable weight range and eat fairly or very low carb but both have bg issues.
I hope she doesn't have T1 but then because she is watching carefully she will likely find dangerous spikes. At this point she doesn't appear to have ever gone over 200.
I know it is hard for her to get a dr. to listen to her. She is trim and active and young. They often don't want to believe you can be diabetic when you are like that. Even my drs never listen when I tell them I have wild swings in bg which seem to be averaging out in my A1C s they think everything is fine.
