What happens to Type II diabetics who eat a ton of sugar?

[RivkahChaya]

@CC

I know, but I thought that hypoglycemic shock is brought about by an overproduction of insulin as a response to a heavy sugar load. Maybe in “pre-diabetics” and those who are “frankly” diabetic (I love those terms) insulin is, by definition, not going to be produced in abundance?

@KarlGauss

But if they’re resistant to insulin, you’d suppose that even high levels won’t lower their sugar. At least not to the hypoglycemic range.

(that said, so-called reactive hypoglycemia has been reported in ‘prediabetics’, but it’s uncommon)

I have reactive hypoglycemia. Eating something sugary on an empty stomach can make by blood sugar drop down to 50. I once had a glucose tolerance test that they called off early because my blood sugar had fallen to 40. Another time, I stayed to the end, and my blood sugar was at 25. They sent me to the emergency room, and ordered a tray of food. They wouldn’t let me leave until I was up to 70.

I have to be really careful about eating sugar, and mostly, I avoid it. There’s a lot of diabetes in my family, but I have had this without becoming diabetic for 25 years.

Sometimes I don’t know when my blood sugar has gotten low until I test it, but sometimes it drops really fast, and then I get shaky and dizzy, and feel hungry.