Seems like I had hypoglycemia today
What the title says. I got up from my desk to go to lunch, I had had a snack around 4 hours earlier (an apple). This is my usual mealtime schedule but I normally have that snack a bit later, so it's only 3 hours before a meal.
As I was reaching the cafeteria I started to feel like crappy. Like... REALLY crappy. I thought I was going to faint, I was hearing everything as if it was faraway, I was a bit disoriented, super dizzy, and I was DRENCHED in cold sweat. I fear it's hypoglycemia because I feel like I've had in the past when it's happened. Somebody called some paramedics and they laid me down, took my blood pressure (it was normal, as were the other vitals) and took my blood sugar. 240 mg/dL, they said.
I panicked. I haven't had a reading that high since I was diagnosed, when I was in the hospital with an intestinal perforation. My latests A1Cs have been 5.1 and 5.3 (this last one in mid-march). I don't measure my glucose levels everyday anymore, but when I do they're always within normal range for non diabetics.
I had some water, laid down, had a bit of the meat and lettuce I had been served for my lunch, and eventually I felt a bit better enough to walk back to my office (about 2 blocks) and my own glucometer, thinking I would go to the hospital because something must be VERY wrong if I'm having these high readings 4 hours after eating and specially when my highest reading after super carby meals have been 160mg/dL tops.
I get back to my office and I finger prick on my own monitor (which is very reliable, I check when I get my regular lab bloodwork and it's always about the same as the value the lab says). No more than 30-35 mins could have passed between that original reading and my own. It says 85 mg/dL. I measure again in 2 different fingers. 88 and 87 mg/dL. I've been retesting every 30 minutes (this was about 90 minutes ago) and it's been between 90 and 99 (I did eat more in between, a lowish carb pudding that is 10g of carbs per serving).
Is it possible that the paramedics' glucometer gave off a bad reading? It could be that my hand was dirty or something else weird happened, because honestly none of this makes sense, specially that I felt a bit better *After* eating even tho I didn't eat something high in carbs, but surely if I felt off because my blood glucose was well above the 200 mark I wouldn't have had a significant improvement after ingesting food.
I'm gonna try to make an appointment with my doctor ASAP and I reached out to my dietitian (with whom I have an open whatsapp communication, with my doctor I need an appointment) who says it sounds like the paramedics had a bad reading and because it didn't match my symptoms they should have re-tested. I'm just nervous and distrusting my own meters, and I'm not sure what to believe.