Well, it depends on the type you have and what works for you. Not eating foods with high sugar is recommended so that, over time, you become symptom free. The problem most people have with this is it can takes months and plenty of agony. Some people do have luck with eating an orange or drinking some juice and then following it with protein or fat, so it's worth a try if it can work for you. If you're feeling fine one day and then different the next, I suspect you have reactive type hypoglycemia. It is natural during treatment to have good and bad days, so don't distress because this is what's happening if you're following a good diet. If you want to try the juice thing, here's all you have to do. Get organic orange juice, no other kind of juice and stay far away from grape juice. Make sure it has no added sugar of any kind including evaporated cane juice, turbinado or what have you that lot's of "healthy" companies use to mimic the sugary taste of common foods. Orange juice is the best. All you have to do is cut the juice with water at first. So, as i've read, you should cut one cup of juice with another cup of water. It may even be a better idea to start at one-half cup juice for a cup of water just to see how you react and then build up from there. Just make sure to eat a decent amount of protein with some fat after drinking it, no longer that twenty minutes after, otherwise you're going to have a problem.

One more thing. The reason why you should not eat something with plain sugar, like a candy bar, is that your body will begin to overcompensate for the amount. Natural sugars are the only way you can go. Sure, you might feel good for a few days, perhaps even a week, eating chocolate or something, but within a short time your symptoms will be so severe you won't know what to do.

I had a severe hypo after a glucose tolerance test and was given a chocolate bar (and no other followup food) to boost my sugars. All well and good. After a while, I felt better and left for home. However, I then crashed again, with a more severe hypo, to the extent that medical assistance was required. The second experience was worse than the first. I now use a few glucogel jelly beans and follow that up with some protein.

Ahhhhhhhh!!! You should not be doing this. What fool told you to eat this sort of thing? A candy bar? Heavenly god, the fools.

Well, I guess they learnt from that one...As did i....This happens all the time when they do gtts at blood collection centres. I won't get it done now outside of path lab in a hospital because I always get the hypo. Reaction. To be fair though, these people are only trained in blood drawing.

So its alright to eat glucose jelly beans and tablets?

No, it is absolutely not alright in any way whatsoever. If you have functional or fasting hypoglycemia you could have something like that, but based on your symptoms you do not have this type. If you did, you could just eat a candy bar and wouldn't have any additional crashes because of it. In your case, as mine, glucose in any pure form is forbidden. The only possible time you should have something like that is if you get so bad you're almost unconscious or near convulsions. That's the only moment because by that point it's gotten really bad. As you are, do not take them.