Does anyone have Hypoglycemia?

If you have hypoglycemia, it is important that you eat several small meals a day. Try to avoid processed (white) sugars and carbs - opt instead for proteins and whole grains. I eat a lot of peanut butter on whole wheat crackers and that helps keep me stable.

The range varies for different people. Although 90 is normal for most folks, it’s low for me and I start showing signs of hypoglycemia. It’s important that you do check your glucose frequently right now so that you can learn what your range is.

It’s important for you to know that if you have a meal with high sugar content, your glucose will rise rapidly and then fall sharply. This can be very dangerous! If it falls too far too fast with no intervention, you can go into a coma and die. But that’s a worst case scenario. Since you are doing the right things now, you can avoid this.

As for how this all works, the body releases insulin after a meal and the insulin helps take the glucose to the cells where it can be used as fuel. But sometimes either you don’t have enough insulin to do the job or the insulin you have is just not very good. When these problems occur, you may have diabetes (too much glucose) and/or hypoglycemia (too little glucose). This is a very simplistic explanation but, hopefully, it will give you a place to start.

Best of luck and let us know how you’re doing when the tests come back.

75 isn’t really that bad, but people feel the symptoms differantly. 75 could make you fell how I feel at 45. When you are low, have orange juice or glucaose tablets or any other juice with like the same amount of sugar, then eat something with protein in it to keep your sugar level. Good luck:)

Your level is going to be lower in the morning… and higher after meals.

Just make sure you keep accurate records of when you ate and what time you did the test, so when it’s reviewed by the doc, it will be known, in case it’s important.

You might want to read up on it too – there;s very detailed info on wikipedia.