Blood Glucose Monitoring

I find it a little bit odd that you’re ‘noticing’ a crash with blood gluocse still that high. usually folks don’t get into problems with feeling crappy until it gets to 70’s and below (at around 50 or so you can pass out)

I’m not exactly sure to the extent I am noticing it. To be honest with you I think some of the feeling may be that I need glasses (I had them for the blackboard when I was young) and do not wear them. I wil be getting Lasik soon, so that may solve that problem. I think it makes me a little lightheaded and dizzy or gives me weird headaches.

That’s what sounds a little strange. The values Quick posted last time: morning: 90, in the day: 98, some sugar drinks: 155, one hour after that: 110 all sound completely normal.
So there is no “drop” or anything!

But down to 80 you should feel great and even capable of doing workouts. Never heard about anybody feeling dizzy on less then 60 or 50.

(An example: Checked my values a few days ago - you got me curious: morning 76, after (healthy) meal: 93, during day mostly 85, after (unhealthy) meal 118, after 5 hours on the train without food: 67.)

So if you feel strange or dizzy there must be some other reason. Not directly blood sugar level. Heard of some kids who are kind of “sugar-addicted” who feel downs with headaches and dizzyness if the can’t get high sugar levels. But I don’t believe that’s your problem.
Maybe you want to check Dr. House :wink:

Idiopathic postprandial syndrome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiopathic_postprandial_syndrome

section 5.2.2
http://ocw.tufts.edu/Content/14/lecturenotes/265916

Wow, old thread. The lowest I ever got was 72 (wicked dizzy). On the high side it would be 120-130…once around 150 after eating like 3 apples, orange juice hamburgers, glycemic crap. It almost always went up after eating something high glycemic without almost any exceptions. It was always the lowest in the morning or upon waking.

Yours went down first though wow???

Quick are you still having these problems. Sounds like you might have been burned out. Were you. I think there is a direct correlation to burnout, cortisol, and adrenal fatigue that somehow causes hypoglycemia.

This guy is HYPERglycemic if anything, not hypoglycemic. And yes, cortisol is a catecholamine, it increases blood glucose levels in response to stress.