What is your meter reading when you feel low? What did you eat for breakfast? What are your 1-hour and post-prandial readings after breakfast? How about lunch? What is your afternoon snack? Any exercise in that period?

What medications are you on? Metformin? A sulfonylurea or other insulin stimulating med? Insulin? Lows are more likely with insulin or insulin-stimulating drugs.

How long have you been diabetic? What is your current A1c? Average fasting and post-prandial numbers?

Could it be a "false low"? In a nutshell, your body is used to much higher blood glucose and when you start moving into "normal" territory, it can feel like a low. If you're used to being at 225, 150 can feel "low"

Could it be reactive hypoglycemia? This would be a sharp spike caused by too many carbs at a single meal or snack, followed by a crash....it's a very unpleasant roller coaster!

What kind of and how many carbs are you eating? When are you eating them? Your diary isn't open.

How often do you test? Fasting? Before meals? After meals(and how long after meals)? Before bed?


I routinely eat 1200-1300 calories and exercise (walking, elliptical, swimming, weights) for at least 45 minutes per day. I don't have issues with lows, but I only take metformin, which does not cause lows. Due to diverticultis, I've been on a liquid diet (VERY difficult to restrict carbs while on liquids) for the past week and while my BG readings are lower, they still are not below 70.

Wow! Noone has ever told me to do any of that!!! The last time I had an attack I had just eaten a stick of cheese. When I do have an attack I am under 70. I exercise before breakfast every morning and pretty much have stayed close to all the mg totals given to me for a 1400 cal diet on this site. (I.E. fat/fiber/protein/carbs/sugar) Today was the first day I did not have a hypoglycemic attack. But, I didn't exercise and forgot to eat breakfast as I was in a hurry for an appt. Weird!
Basically,my doctor told me I have Type 2 and need to lose weight. Gave me medicine to take two times a day and I'm on my own.

I really encourage you to check out this guide, it's the single most valuable piece of guidance I have found for improving and maintaining my blood glucose

http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/flyer.pdf

Take some time to explore the entire site!

My nutrtionist told me that a BG reading of 70 or under is a hypoglycemic emergency. You need more sugar! Drink some orange juice (for me 4 oz) will get me up quickly. Then you need to take in carbs to keep from dropping quickly again. I am NOT on meds for it at this time and am trying hard to control my sugar by diet and exercise alone. However, it's very hard for me to balance everything as I also have heart problems, only 1 kidney (weak), and have also been recently diagnosed with Gastroparesis. If your sugar is that low, you HAVE to get it up quickly and then try to maintain it. Good Luck!