I actually did have the ITT. My blood sugar would
not come up again. I was there for ages.
Demonstrably unaffected by it, too. Blood sugar in the 20s and perfectly coherent. I freaked the techs out a little, I think: one of my few truly funny memories from acute phase, even if it is a bit of dark humor.
Techs: CAN YOU SPEAK. DO YOU KNOW WHAT YEAR IT IS.
...I was at Mayo, so by then I was trained: they make you give your name and birthday at every single station to make sure that the right person is coupled to the right test! Sometimes you get asked three or four times over the course of the same test or short appointment. I rattled off my full name, birthday, the year and who was president.
Me: Is this when people stop making sense?
Tech 1: This is usually when people pass out. DRINK MORE JUICE. CAN WE GET A SECOND GLUCOSE DRIP.
Long story short, I consumed over 100-g of sugar but it did zip.
...I consumed 100-g of sugar... and...
huh. Suddenly seeing this in a new light. They have you on a glucose drip, too. It still didn't help. They had to inject dextrose directly into my muscle to get my blood sugar to climb and stay there.
Maybe PWME don't rely much on sugars for energy at all anymore, and that was why such a low blood sugar didn't have the effect on me that it might on somebody else. My body may have already made a number of accommodations to favor fat and protein breakdown for energy, and the drop-off in glucose, while off-putting, was not nearly the disaster for me it might have been for someone else.
Just thinking aloud.
@ChrisArmstrong feel free to PM me re: gathering blood test results and such from people.
-J