Fell off the wagon... but low BG??

[Hoddesdon54]

Hi sorry to jump on this, I am new to this forum even though I have been t2 for 3 years now! Would appreciate any help, yesterday I fell big time off the wagon, sat and ate lots of sweets, stupid I know, then had small meal, couldn’t eat much because I was stuffed, then started to feel unwell, went to sleep and was still feeling rough an hour later, tested and my bag was 3.4??? Why would it be so low? I’m usually about 6-7, didn’t eat anything else, tested this morning and was 5.4, which is still low for me, any ideas why the reading would be so low?

 

[rebrascora]

@Hoddesdon54
Hi and welcome.
You might have been best starting a new thread but my thoughts on your situation are that it would be helpful to know what if any medication you are taking? Ie Are you on insulin/Gliclazide/Metformin and what doses? It is quite difficult to comment without knowing this info as it can obviously have a significant impact on your levels.

Had you had anything alcoholic to drink and if so what? Some drinks will push your levels up but some can drop them.

Are you absolutely sure you didn't misread it and it was 34? Feeling unwell and sleepy and dropping off to sleep is usually a hyper where your BG is high rather than a hypo which normally wakes you up if you are asleep and sends your heart pounding because adrenaline has been released.

The high sugar intake with eating the sweets, particularly if you have been mostly following a lower carb diet recently, might have triggered some sort of reactive hypoglycemic event, where the pancreas got over stimulated by the sugar surge and produced too much insulin...

Were your hands dry when you tested?
How old are your test strips and how long has the pot of strips been opened? Just wondering if there may be some degradation if they have been sitting around a long time. Do you have a control solution in your test kit to check a test strip from that pot? There will be a control solution range printed on the pot and the control solution should read within that range.

With the current limited information, those are the things that occur to me as possibilities.

 

[Lucyr]

Hello. For a type 2, having a low blood sugar after eating a lot of sweets could be something called reactive hypoglycaemia. It happens when your blood sugar spikes high because of the high carb intake, your body makes insulin to bring it down but it overshoots and brings you too low. Worth reading about to see if it fits.

 

[Inka]

Perhaps all that sugar spurred your body on into shooting out extra insulin? As @Lucyr says, there is something called Reactive Hypoglycaemia, but sometimes it can just happen.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

You might have been best starting a new thread

I’ve split @hoddeson54 ‘s post and the replies into a separate thread earlier so that it could get more attention, and notmget lost among the other thread.

It certainly sounds unexpected and unusual @Hoddesdon54 - but it also made me think of reactive hypoglycaemia. I’m not sure how common that is, and I don’t think you can rely on it always happening if you are ever temptes bu the sweeties again!