Chronic Reactive or Fasting Hypoglycemics

If I understand what you said she goes low but is NOT under medication for diabetes. This happens sometimes while diabetes is developing, and sometimes just stays there at this point.

I saw another message sayig dhe should eat a fast acting carbohydrate, such as glucose pills, candy or OJ. This may work short term, but for a chronic Reactive Hypoglycemic, if that's really what she is, this may backfire. Problem she has is that her pancreas doesn't make insulin fast enough to cover need, especially when she has just eaten a lot of carbs in a meal. SO her body tries to catch up after the fact, and her blood glucose (or bg) level goes real high real fast. Then the insulin finally catches up but doesn't know when to stop, so insulin keeps flowing out and drives her bg down suddenly. That usually happens about 2 hours after eating a lot of carbs. Reason I brought it up is that when she egoes low and eat carbs the new carbs will raise her bg fast, but the same reaction can happen after she recovers. Looping back through it isn't the best idea, for sure...read more