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Hi does anyone know why when I eat my sugars shoot up and then drop down quickly lower than they was before I ate and give me fake hypos ? I’ve stopped taking metformin as I’m scared how low my sugars are going. Eg eat sometimes go from 4.5/5 to between 8-11 then will drop maybe in a hour if that? I’m literally eating what I want might I add not even diet food
 
Cait said:
Hi does anyone know why when I eat my sugars shoot up and then drop down quickly lower than they was before I ate and give me fake hypos ? I’ve stopped taking metformin as I’m scared how low my sugars are going. Eg eat sometimes go from 4.5/5 to between 8-11 then will drop maybe in a hour if that? I’m literally eating what I want might I add not even diet food
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Could be Reactive Hypoglycemia.
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Cait said:
Hi does anyone know why when I eat my sugars shoot up and then drop down quickly lower than they was before I ate and give me fake hypos ? I’ve stopped taking metformin as I’m scared how low my sugars are going. Eg eat sometimes go from 4.5/5 to between 8-11 then will drop maybe in a hour if that? I’m literally eating what I want might I add not even diet food
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Sometimes your insulin response is impaired and kicks in late (hence the spike) and overcompensates by releasing too much insulin (hence the drop) @Cait
 
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would that mean I wouldn’t have diabetes?
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People with diabetes/pre-diabetes can get RH.

The problem is the first phase of insulin is diminished in T2s so blood sugar rises to high levels after eating a lot of carbs.

After 2 hours or so, the second phase is released and this can bring it down quickly if too much insulin is released.

After an hour suggests a normal response, though, as I believe RH is a delayed response and you said it's happening after an hour?
 
Cait said:
Hi does anyone know why when I eat my sugars shoot up and then drop down quickly lower than they was before I ate and give me fake hypos ? I’ve stopped taking metformin as I’m scared how low my sugars are going. Eg eat sometimes go from 4.5/5 to between 8-11 then will drop maybe in a hour if that? I’m literally eating what I want might I add not even diet food
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What foods are you eating when that happens. The guidance is 4-7 before meals and no more than 8-8.5 mmol/l 2 hours post meal and by implication back to the 4-7 before your next meal.
How does what you are getting fit with that.
 
I also wondered if your body was reacting a bit late to your meal, then slightly overdoing the insulin production when it kicked in?

It would be interesting to see what happened after a lower carbohydrate meal. Perhaps one with only 20g or so of total carbohydrate in it (not just ‘sugars’). A salad and omelette perhaps, with no bread?
 
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I also wondered if your body was reacting a bit late to your meal, then slightly overdoing the insulin production when it kicked in?

It would be interesting to see what happened after a lower carbohydrate meal. Perhaps one with only 20g or so of total carbohydrate in it (not just ‘sugars’). A salad and omelette perhaps, with no bread?
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The OP says it's happening within an hour, which suggests it's not a delayed reaction.
 
harbottle said:
The OP says it's happening within an hour, which suggests it's not a delayed reaction.
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I understood that to be an hour after the post-meal high glucose, rather than an hour after eating?
 
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