Stan. Those readings would typically be considered not hypoglycemic. Typical readings vary, but generally will be lower than 60 (whether or not symptoms are present at the time, sometimes they come after the sugar has already stabilized but after such a reading appears). I don't make recommendations on the meter, I only state that whatever your readings, you should be eating no more than once every 2-3 hours.

The tricky thing about the whole reading issue is that no glucose meter is really tailored for this. The only reason I recommend it is to see how serious it may be or to make sure it isn't an onset of diabetes (which will sometimes manifest in this way). The problem is that readings are generally relative to the person. If you're getting symptoms with those readings, that means those are your hypoglycemic readings. It's very controversial, but it's really the only way to explain it. I would say 69 is low, in my opinion, not the general opinion most doctors have. They treat this like it's just similar to diabetes, when it's totally different. Mine were more 'textbook.' When I took my original tests years ago, my white blood count was up as well as my liver enzymes (so bad in fact I got a late call from the nurse telling me to avoid all alcohol or certain pain-killers if I didn't want to die). The blood sugar readings were low. One time it was around 55. When I had my GTT the results were a little off because the doctor foolishly told me I didn't have to fast, so they went 98 60 98 60, taken each hour. A little skewed, but still obvious, the so-called sawtooth curve, the hardest form to treat and probably the worst out of all of them.

My theory is this. When you are getting the symptoms, I have this theory that the readings you're getting show the level in your blood in general, but the actual process going on is essentially behind the time of the reading. I verified this by taking my blood sugar at 10 minute intervals. I would have symptoms around 30min after eating, it would read around 90 or so. Ten minutes later 75, ten minutes later down to around 70, and so forth in spite of the fact my symptoms seemed to be getting better around this time. It seems the brain almost senses what's happening before it does and starts to move around glucose to the most necessary parts of the body (heartbeat, breathing, etc.). Once it feels more safe, it starts to direct it towards itself again. That's the only way I can make sense out of it, but I'm not sure it's true or not.