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Originally Posted by slipperyelm 
So, for example, they may feel hypo at 145 and actually have to treat with a measured amount of glucose. (I have always suspected that many people who have never experienced this do not really believe it.)
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I believe it because I've gone through it a few times. It doesn't take long for it to happen either. My BG numbers have been rising lately to up around 135 for fasting and 175 for spikes. It's only been there for about a week.
I took a Prandin one day when I was at my mother's house, since I was going to eat some foods that I don't normally eat, and I wasn't able to take my Byetta. When I got home that night, I went to test my BG levels, and I had a hard time trying to hold my finger still while I pressed the test strip against it. The herky jerky movements were coming from a low BG level, but the meter said the level was 99. It wasn't a hypo, but it was a lot lower than I had been all week.
I had been in the 90's the week before, so it didn't take long for my body to adjust to the higher levels. I was surprised that it took such a short time to adjust to the high levels so that a reading of 99 was low enough to give me the shakes.
