Low blood sugar, anyone?

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Hi all -

Just got my bloodwork back at my 1 year check up. Most things look great, except I'm *still* having low blood sugar. I had this at my 4 month check up as well, and I do experience it sometimes. Got a home test kit for blood sug, the first one of which warning that it was only accurate for higher-than-normal ... useless.

Anyway, any tips or experience with this out there in the vast body of bariatric knowledge?

Thanks!

[catwoman7 11,210]

mine isn't chronic, but I was experiencing occasional reactive hypoglycemia (RH) when I got to be about two years out (it'd hit me about two hours or so after eating - not all the time, but enough that i knew something was going on and had a complete work-up). My PCP recommended eating something about every three hours - preferably a Protein - and if I DID eat a carb, to be sure to pair it with a protein. Seems to have helped - I rarely have that issue anymore.

btw - if yours is due to RH, that's not unheard of with bypass (not sure about the mini version of bypass, though...)

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3 hours ago, catwoman7 said:

mine isn't chronic, but I was experiencing occasional reactive hypoglycemia (RH) when I got to be about two years out (it'd hit me about two hours or so after eating - not all the time, but enough that i knew something was going on and had a complete work-up). My PCP recommended eating something about every three hours - preferably a Protein - and if I DID eat a carb, to be sure to pair it with a Protein. Seems to have helped - I rarely have that issue anymore.

btw - if yours is due to RH, that's not unheard of with bypass (not sure about the mini version of bypass, though...)

Thank you so much for this. Yeah, our bypass is usually 3-4x longer than you guys', so that would make a bunch of sense. I'll ask about RH!