I don't get my meter until next week, so I have to go by symptoms and good sense until then. I've
been reading the Ah-ha thread and I am not sure I am there yet myself, though logically I
understand. This will be a lot of work physically with keeping the right foods on hand and preparing
foods and testing all the time. I don't know how I am going to manage that very well. I'm not
looking forward to it. Maybe the moment of "this is real" will come when I am sitting there in the
doctors office learning how to work the meter...
Since I know I have reactive hypoglycemia now, I wanted to see what would happen when I ate out.. I
needed to see what kind of symptoms would occur. I woke up and had 2oz of orange juice and 12
peanuts then an hour and a half later I went to Village Inn and got my meal about 1:15. I got 2
crepes (eggs, flour, milk) with a typical amount of strawberry syrup and 2 bacon strips.. a meal I
won't be eating anymore, obviously.
As I was finishing, I noticed myself feeling sleepy, spacey, fatigued and having to make a real
effort to converse with the person I was with. I just wanted to go take a nap. This seems like an
actual spike, but I won't know until I get the meter. I can't say how much of the symptoms were
because of the amount of calories in the meal or if it was mostly the simple carbs effect, probably
the latter. I went home (I wasn't driving) and lay down for 15 minutes. I was slowly feeling better
(BG dropping) and more clear-headed and then it kept going down until I felt "hollow," slightly weak
(but it's vague), slight heart rate change, and started feeling hungry at 3:50pm, so I ate. I was
also curious how soon I'd feel hungry after a high calorie meal, too.. it only took 2 hours and 35
minutes. Interesting. I don't need to do this again, though.
Do you think it could have been a spike? Or could it have been more a transition from probably
mildly hypo before the meal to top normal?
My understanding is if it is an actual spike (which would be above normal), then that could indicate
glucose intolerance or closer to type II diabetes versus just hypoglycemia, is that right?
Will be nice to get the meter.
Fawnhawk