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Hey, guys! So I've had what was presumed to be hypoglycemia for years. In fact, I mistook the onset of my ME for a hypoglycemic episode. After all this time, I finally went to an endocrinologist and was prescribed a BG monitor to see if my BG was actually low when I was experiencing these symptoms.
In short, I start feeling low *really* early. Like in the 80's. By the time I get to, say, 60, I'm where most people are at like 40 symptom-wise. Even more interesting, this is what happened on Saturday:
around 5:30, I start to feel distinctly "low." I hadn't eaten in a while, so I go and test my BG and it's 97....normal..... I texted the type 1 diabetic girl in my class and she said to eat and test again and see what happens.
5:30, I eat an oreo chocolate bar (it's new, they just came out with it and it's freaking amazing but I digress). I wait 15 minutes, test, and it's 95. Lower....
6:30, I test again (1 hour post-candy) and it's only gone up to 108.
8:00, 2.5 hours post-candy, I eat dinner. Cabbage and rice, a hamburger sans bun or toppings or anything, and a Snapple peach tea with 39 mf-ing grams of sugar lol. I figure if this doesn't bring it up nothing will. Oh, I was at 94 at this time.
8:30, I've finished eating, I test and it's 171. Too high now. Supposedly it's not supposed to go above 140 after eating. It's also gone from 94 to 171 in half an hour.
Over the course of the night, it wouldn't come back down....
TL;DR: my blood sugar was normal but I felt low. It wouldn't come up even after eating candy. I ate dinner, it shot up, then wouldn't come down.
Does anyone else experience BG weirdness? BG won't go up after eating or won't go down?
Thanks,
Lauren
In short, I start feeling low *really* early. Like in the 80's. By the time I get to, say, 60, I'm where most people are at like 40 symptom-wise. Even more interesting, this is what happened on Saturday:
around 5:30, I start to feel distinctly "low." I hadn't eaten in a while, so I go and test my BG and it's 97....normal..... I texted the type 1 diabetic girl in my class and she said to eat and test again and see what happens.
5:30, I eat an oreo chocolate bar (it's new, they just came out with it and it's freaking amazing but I digress). I wait 15 minutes, test, and it's 95. Lower....
6:30, I test again (1 hour post-candy) and it's only gone up to 108.
8:00, 2.5 hours post-candy, I eat dinner. Cabbage and rice, a hamburger sans bun or toppings or anything, and a Snapple peach tea with 39 mf-ing grams of sugar lol. I figure if this doesn't bring it up nothing will. Oh, I was at 94 at this time.
8:30, I've finished eating, I test and it's 171. Too high now. Supposedly it's not supposed to go above 140 after eating. It's also gone from 94 to 171 in half an hour.
Over the course of the night, it wouldn't come back down....
TL;DR: my blood sugar was normal but I felt low. It wouldn't come up even after eating candy. I ate dinner, it shot up, then wouldn't come down.
Does anyone else experience BG weirdness? BG won't go up after eating or won't go down?
Thanks,
Lauren