Blood sugar getting low? NOT diabetic...

[Roxy1771 21]

Hello, I am one month post op, been eating regular food for one week now per doctors orders and today at work I ate Breakfast as usual. A piece of wheat bread with strawberry cream cheese and coffee but an hour later I started feeling shakey and I asked my coworker to check my blood pressure and blood sugar (we're nurses). Well my bp was fine but my sugar was 56!

I am not diabetic so if I ate breakfast why would this happen?

[samwright14 3]

I will be a year out the end of September. I am not diabetic either. I had a little spell with my sugar about 3 weeks out then nothing. All of a sudden the last like 4 months I have been battling with it dropping.i went to the doctors a couple weeks ago and they made me do a three hour glucose test. My fasting glucose was 70 my one hour was 69 my hour 2 was somewhere below 30 and my hour three was still only 55. So now I go to a specialist the 25th to find out why it is going so low. My doctor told me that sometimes with this sugery it's a shock to the system so the pancreas could be having trouble regulating things. She also said there is a list of things that could cause it to go low like that so that's why I have to see the specialist to rule out what it is.

[James Marusek 5,244]

Several individuals that undergo bariatric surgery experience a type of low blood sugar after the surgery. It is known as reactive hypoglycemia. This is independent of whether you were diabetic prior to surgery. Here are a couple links to the condition:

https://www.ridgeviewmedical.org/services/bariatric-weight-loss/enewsletter-articles/reactive-hypoglycemia-postgastric-bypass

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/diabetes/expert-answers/reactive-hypoglycemia/faq-20057778