I went to IHOP with my father this morning and ordered buttermilk pancakes with tons of maple syrup.
I should add that I’m diabetic.
A few hours later I decided to test my blood glucose levels and I was expecting numbers near 200 instead my reading was 74!
Anything below 70 is considered dangerous so I didn’t want to chance it.
I quickly ate some leftover spaghetti and had a coffee cake muffin to raise my blood sugar levels.
I don’t know why I would have low blood sugar levels after eating a high carb sugar filled meal?
I’m thinking that the diabetes drugs Ozempic and Metformin are the cause but I’m not sure.
I was having similar weird reactions to sugar when I was on Paxlovid. That night my blood sugar went really low, I tested bs and it was like 70 or 80, cant remember exact. So I had some ice cream. Like an hour later or so I started feeling weird, sweating and out of it and I took blood sugar and it was 44. I had originally thought it might be some kind of weird overreaction by system to high blood sugar. Like some kind of rebound effect. I now think it was Paxlovid related though.
@Bowens I looked it up, it’s called reactive hypoglycemia, when blood sugar levels drop drastically after a few hours eating a high carb meal.
It’s sometimes called a “sugar crash”