Just for Type 2's: What is the lowest you have gone? - Page 3

Funnygrl · #31 (**permalink**) 12-02-2008, 11:29 PM

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Originally Posted by LCD

What is the difference between reactive lows and insulin reactions?

Insulin reactions are lows from taking too much insulin (or not eating enough food to match the insulin, etc, etc, a low caused by injected insulin). A reactive low is only seen in a person that still makes insulin and involves your own body producing too much insulin to overcompensate for a high or quickly increasing blood sugar.

Handybear · #32 (**permalink**) 12-03-2008, 01:33 AM

I have had a couple of 75's. Usually averaging around mid 80's.

cyberus · #33 (**permalink**) 12-03-2008, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Tammy777

I'm not even a diabetic, but just yesterday morning I was 225 after my coffee had a protein shake to try to level it out and started mopping, hadn't been even 10 minutes of mopping and I started to shake and get that otherworldly feeling and checked my bg and it was 48. I ate an apple and some cheese, and waited for the shaking and stuff to stop, felt horrible the rest of the day, but it happens often. Don't know what to do. Mindy

IMO Find a new doctor, yours isn't doing you any justice.

However in doctors defense it does SEEM that when it comes to diabetes they are trained to be more reactive than proactive, treating AFTER you progress into full blown diabetes rather than starting treatment to slow/stall the progression.

HuskerMychal · #34 (**permalink**) 12-03-2008, 12:17 PM

I am going to 2nd that. Those numbers and conditions just don't seem right for a non-diabetic

PrettynPurple · #35 (**permalink**) 12-03-2008, 05:38 PM

i hit 53 the other nite (friday nite), bout 2 hr after eating pumpkin pie, 90 mins after taking metformin and abt 4 after taking 5 mcg of byetta, dinner was a bowl of frosted flakes

i was shaking like a leaf in a hurricane

and i was dx back in june

Ronman · #36 (**permalink**) 12-04-2008, 07:38 AM

I hit 50 last evening. That isn't my low though. I think I hit 42 once but have been in the 40's several times. Almost always in the evening before I eat.

Barberian · #37 (**permalink**) 12-04-2008, 11:42 PM

When I was first diagnosed, and started testing the lowest I caught was in the high 40's in the morning the 2 days after I worked out. I would work out every other day, and my lowest was not the morning after, but the morning 2 days after I worked out. Couldn't figure that one out. I wasn't on meds yet, as my doc had a wait and see attitude. My highs wern't too bad yet, low to mid 200's. She wanted to see some #'s before she started meds.

Kerstin · #38 (**permalink**) 12-05-2008, 12:19 PM

I take metformin (500mg 2x a day) and glipizide (5mg in AM, 2.5 in PM). My lowest was 45, and it really scared me. I had taken my metformin and glipizide and all my other meds on an empty stomach. I forgot to eat breakfast and proceeded to work out on my stationary bike for 30 minutes. Then as I was getting ready for work the bathroom started to spin, I started to shake and sweat was pouring off me. I tested and was at 45. Not fun! I won't go there again

uhoh · #39 (**permalink**) 12-05-2008, 12:55 PM

Well, I guess my lowest (just diagnosed in September) was a 53. That was during the day. I am not on any meds and hope to stay that way.

ticktwrter · #40 (**permalink**) 12-05-2008, 02:37 PM

I take 1000 mg metformin and 1 glipizide in the AM and 1500 metforming and 1 glipizide in the evening. I dropped to 65 earlier today and just ate lunch at it came back.

w5wjp · #41 (**permalink**) 12-05-2008, 02:41 PM

Long time ago I hit the low 30's while I was on one of the first generation oral meds. Nothing below about 50 or so lately.

MJB · #42 (**permalink**) 12-06-2008, 05:44 PM

66 measured (fasting level) when I was on Actoplus Met. Since I've gone to Metformin only I don't recall measuring below low 80's.

Drucifer · #43 (**permalink**) 12-09-2008, 01:50 PM

45. But that was years ago. Still scary tho. Was very weak, shaking, etc. Was home, so went to the fridge and drank a large glass of OJ. Actually, I drank it straight from the carton.

alura · #44 (**permalink**) 12-09-2008, 08:58 PM

A couple of times about an hour before meals I have felt "funny" but the numbers have only been in the low 80s. Maybe that's low for me because I'm still learning about diet. I take Metformin ER 500 mg/daily.

cntrygrlgray · #45 (**permalink**) 12-11-2008, 11:49 AM

I am type 2, just diagnosed in Feb. 2008. Lowest I have been was 53 when I was on Metformin, was very scary. Doc tried every pill available and nothing worked, stayed between 140 to 290. I have abdominal problems so every pill medication was making me severly ill. They just put me on Humulin N, 8 units 2 times per day, I am now getting readings in the 300's.