Reactive/Postprandial Hypoglycemia

Hello all! It has been a long time since I last logged on. I have reached my goal weight and have maintained well. I have however, eaten not so well lately. Stress factors triggering my bad eating habits. I am back on track now but interestingly, after eating all the junk I started to feel jittery, SOB, very sweaty, my mouth went numb, and I felt like I was going to faint. I am a nurse so I check my blood sugar thinking it was going to be high.. Turns out I was hypoglycemic at 47! This happened to my twice, both times after eating crap! I started to look up low blood sugar after VSG. Turns out (from what I read) 35% of post op ppl report this happens to them approximately 2 years after surgery. This is another motivation to eat healthy.

Yup, RH is very common starting a year or two after surgery. I would say a lot more than 35%. Whatever you do, don't treat it the way you would ordinary hypoglycemia.

RH is avoidable if we eat right.

I get it myself - but it started earlier. Protein is the key for me - i can still eat the carbs, so long as the protein goes in first to slow down my system. That being said, it's a good way to keep the junk in check.

It was happening to me with protein bars not junk, these were high quality low sugar protein bars. I gave them up. Issue resolved.

I still have to eat a decent number of calories at regularly intervals.

yup! Sick as a dog for days if I go off the wagon. Not worth the shakes and throwing up!

There's a podcast I listen to "Weight loss Surgery Podacast" by Reeger Cortell who is a bariatric nurse practitioner. It's an excellent source of information. She recently posted an episode about reactive hypoglycemia. I learned quite a lot from it.

I've learned a lot from her podcast...