Can lactose cause hypoglycemia?

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Lactose has a huge insulinemic index for its glycemic index.* Since insulin lowers blood sugar and the glycemic index is a measurement of how fast a glycemic load raises blood sugar, could lactose cause hypoglycemia?

*http://www.ajcn.org/content/74/1/96.full
 
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This thread caught my interest because I have a problem with drowsiness and its been suggested that I may have hypoglycemia and this drowsiness seems to come on after I eat dairy products. Drowsiness isn't one of the symptoms normally associated with lactose intolerance but its the main symptom I seem to get after eating dairy.