Reactive Hypoglycemia
 

Hello! I'm relatively new here and have some questions. I was just diagnosed a couple of weeks ago with reactive hypoglycemia. The last 3 days I have tested my blood before and 2 hours after meals. The highest my blood sugar ever got in those 3 days was 101 an hour after dinner one night. The lowest it has dropped was 58 2 hours after breakfast that same morning. It normally is running in the 60s and 70s when I test it.

I made a trip to the doctor yesterday when it dropped to 58 because that concerned me. I wasn't scheduled to go back again until May. He suggested that I test an hour after a meal to see if my sugar was spiking and then my body was releasing insulin to drop it back down. I don't consider 101 a "spike" but it was the highest number I had seen in those 3 days.

Any advice of what I should be eating to try to level my blood sugar? I have a lot of the inner tremors that I've read about and my hands tremble a lot.

I have been doing what the doctor recommended as far as eating 3 meals and 3 snacks a day and having a carb and protein together each time. I've gained a couple of pounds, which is distressing since I worked so hard to lose 60 a couple of years ago. :( I do NOT want to gain the weight back.

It hasn't helped that I've felt so worn out lately that I haven't kept up with my normal exercise routine. I'm wondering if I should switch my walking to an hour after dinner since that seems to be when my levels are the highest. I usually do alternate between yoga and walking in the mornings before breakfast. I thought I could do yoga in the mornings and get my walking in after dinner each night.

Any advice or personal experiences with hypoglycemia would be greatly appreciated! :^:

I occasionally gets bouts of this. It always happens about three or four hours after I have a meal that is composed almost primarily of white carbs and fat and/or sugar. Before I changed my diet it would happen if I ever had a sugary carb meal in the morning like donuts or a waffle with syrup. It did happen to me recently when I had a low protein soup in a white bread bowl.

I don't typically consume white bread or the like, but I've found that if I do I need to have protein with it. If I don't then I am risking an incident. Eating whole wheat bread instead of white really helps me as well.

Thanks. That's the frustrating part of this. I have changed my diet so that I rarely have white carbs anymore, usually only when we eat out and there are no other choices.

I guess it's just going to take some time to figure out what works for me. I'm just afraid that the weight will come back on meanwhile.