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Is this a low blood sugar reading?

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Foreo · 07/07/2022 16:14

The past five years, I have been feeling constantly hungry and thirsty.
During that period the doctor performed a couple of tests for diabetes, all came back well.

Symptoms continued but due to blood test arriving back as normal, I just got on with it i.e, carrying snacks and water everywhere I go.

Fast forward to the last couple of months, my symptoms are just a nightmare.
I can't concentrate at work because I'm just constantly obsessing over sugar and how soon the 'next hit is'
My heart is also leaping around and my mouth feels dry as a dessert and I struggle to talk (although a chocolate bar seems to make me feel coherent, pathetic I know)

I just took a reading from a Glucose Meter purchased on Amazon and all seems ok, although I'm wondering if 4.8 is a normal reading two hours after eating? Any advice please.

I do not have low iron, ferritin and thyroid came back normal 6 months back.

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Foreo · 07/07/2022 17:24

StressfulBedtimes · 07/07/2022 17:17

If you’re only a size 8 and regularly go shaky and are hungry and craving sugar then you are probably just not eating enough
You seem quite hung up on having diabetes but … you just don’t
if you had uncontrolled and unmediated diabetes you’re blood sugars would be sky high, DDs were 42.9 when she was taken to hospital in an ambulance and put in intensive care with failing kidneys at 7 years old
Yours are well within the normal range, just eat a biscuit and you’ll be fine

Eat a biscuit? Honestly what a pathetic comment.

With regards to the questions around how much I eat; the answer is a huge amount. (My husband is 19 stone built like a rugby player) and I can easily keep up with him. I realise some women struggle to handle that many slim women have a hearty appetite but we do exist.

I am also not hung up on diabetes but was querying whether my recent symptoms were a result of low blood sugar levels.

Some posters have kindly mentioned that they are within range. That is all.

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Whataplanker · 07/07/2022 18:42

I'd be thinking thyroid but notoriously difficult to get diagnosed.

Brownlongearedbat · 07/07/2022 18:50

Have you been tested for addison's disease?

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Foreo · 07/07/2022 17:24

Eat a biscuit? Honestly what a pathetic comment.

With regards to the questions around how much I eat; the answer is a huge amount. (My husband is 19 stone built like a rugby player) and I can easily keep up with him. I realise some women struggle to handle that many slim women have a hearty appetite but we do exist.

I am also not hung up on diabetes but was querying whether my recent symptoms were a result of low blood sugar levels.

Some posters have kindly mentioned that they are within range. That is all.

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It probably would have been safer to just Google rather than ask on Mumsnet Wink

FinallyHere · 08/07/2022 08:34

Definitely not a sugar addiction because I stopped eating sugar for a few months and substituted with fruit.

What do you think is the difference between sugar and fruit?

The symptoms you describe are the same as those I get when my diet is carbohydrate heavy. I'm not diabetic and have used a CGM continuous glucose meter to measure the impact on my blood sugar of different foods

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