reactive hypoglycemia?

Anna5 · 05-31-2007, 04:33 PM

I was recently diagnosed as having diabetes by my endocronologist. She told me that my IR had just worsened and become diabetes. she put me on met, but if anything that made it worse. I called her today to give her my glucose numbers for the last two weeks and she told me that she thinks that maybe i never had diabetes or IR and instead have reactive hypoglycemia. I don't know what that is, or what it does to you. can anyone enlighten me? i was really hoping that met would be my miracle cure and would solve all my problems, but she told me to stop taking it. anyone know anything about reactive hypoglycemia??
thanks!!

Mustangsally82 · 06-17-2007, 10:21 PM

I'm not sure that I understand it much myself, but I recently saw my doctor for these headaches I've been having. I just have IR (so I've been told) and not diabetes, but I've been having headaches that seem to get better when I eat something.

I tested my sugars when I'd have the headaches, and two or three hours after eating they'd be in the fasting range. My doctor called it reactive hypoglycemia, which made me think that maybe eating causes too much insulin to be released, which gets rid of the glucose sooner than it does in normal people, so your sugars dip down sooner than they're supposed to.

She told me that i should eat something every two or three hours. Like that's easy to do! but I do feel better when I just snack all day long.

but I'm still on met, and it helped me lose 30 pounds. I don't know what to tell you. what have your sugars been like?