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Got glucose tolerance test and became very sleepy, does that mean diabetic or hypoglocemia?

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Dr. Gerard Honore answered

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Neither one: Your symptoms do not tell you this, the numbers on the GTT do. Most normal folk feel briefly sleepy after a big glucose load.

Answered 3/19/2019

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