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Why when your sleeping reactive hypoglycemia doesn't effect you?
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Hypoglycemia : During sleep, hypoglycemia will wake you up with symptom of rapid heart beat, sweating, shortness of breath.
Answered 10/3/2015
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Sometimes it does: Reactive hypoglycemia usually occurs when a high carbohydrate meal stimulates Insulin overshoot about 2 hours later. If you eat a high carb meal just before bedtime, you can wake up in the middle of the night with hypoglycemia.
Answered 6/25/2014
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