My husband was having some symptoms that made me wonder about his sugar - most notably that a few hours (anywhere from 1 to 3) after eating a meal, he would become extremely shaky, and "fuzzy."

When he asked his doctor about this, he was sent for a fasted blood test, which did not show anything unusual. But he still was having the symptoms, so I did some research, and talked to diabetic friends. (I should mention that there has been diabetes in his family, and he is also overweight, carries most of his weight at his waist, and so forth - in other words, he is at risk.)

Online, my husband found a questionnaire for hypoglycemia, and his answers indicated that he was exhibiting signs of hypoglycemia. So he pushed his doctor into ordering a glucose tolerance test (4 hour).

During the test (about 3 hours after ingesting the glucose), he crashed - became very shaky and felt awful - the techs saw it, too, which was nice for us, since none of the medical personnel had seen this happen before. After the test was finished, I gave him two granola bars, and he recovered quickly.

His doctor called today with the results. At about 3 hours, his blood sugar dropped, and hit a low of 52. He did not say that there were any high readings prior to the drop. However, he is diagnosing this as prediabetes, not reactive hypoglycemia, which is what I had expected.

Has anyone had any experience with prediabetes presenting this way? Any other thoughts? I wish I could say that I trust his doctor to treat him properly, but I don't think he has enough knowledge about either diabetes or hypoglycemia to do so.

Thanks for the help!