What do you make of these levels?

[Jayke]

Hi folks.

I've been having possible hypo symptoms for a few months and awaiting an endo appointment. TBH, I'm wondering if I'm just being over anxious as I'm lean and need fuelling a lot. I don't have diabetes as I've been tested.

After eating an egg and a banana for breakfast (I don't like breakfast as it is as I'm never hungry) my levels were over 6 shortly afterwards and then I suddenly felt really tied and sick. I tested 10 minutes after that first reading and they had dropped to 4.

Is this normal? I can't actually find ANYTHING online about how blood sugars behave in terms of what they should be doing outside the advised testing times (i.e. the usual 90 minutes after eating).

I'm guessing they fluctuate a lot to try and get to a stable level of, say, 4.5 or 5.5? Again, I can't find anything about this so I really am guessing.

Tonight I ate corn, breaded fish and sweet potato and my levels were 7.4 an hour and a half after that. For an experiment, straight after that reading I ate a nut protein bar (6g of sugar) with a brew and my levels were 5.5 only 20 minutes later, then 5.9 after 10 minutes and 5.1 after another 10 minutes.

I guess I'm concerned about rapid drops but maybe this is all normal?

Your thoughts would be much appreciated.

Thank you 🙂

 

[SHORAN]

Sound like pretty sensible levels to me. Within acceptable ranges etc.... but the rapid fluctuations I am not sure if this is the 'norm' ..though they do go up and down and can be a bit unpredictable from my experience. I am diabetic and you are not... but that's my take on it. I wouldn't worry too much. If it drops quite a bit suddenly say to 4... could it be because you did something physical ?.....

Interesting .....

 

[Radders]

My impression is that rapid dropping of levels back to normal shortly after eating is a sign of good health and activity, after watching “Trust Me I’m a Doctor” last week!
The symptoms might be something else entirely so I hope you get them sorted. last time I had those symptoms without having a hypo I would have called it feeling faint and put it down to low blood pressure caused by dehydration.