Did you have the GTT done? You should also have your A1C tested. It would be best to go to an endocrinologist directly and NOT a family doctor if that's what you've been doing. What is your diet currently like?

Sorry for the delay, I'm currently training to be a teacher so I'm always really busy.
No I haven't had a GTT done. The doctor felt that as my fasting glucose levels were normal, I didn't need it - he said that the way my blood sugar levels dropped rapidly after eating say cereal, were normal. I have tested how quickly my sugar levels drop after eating cereal using a home glucose measuring thing and they drop very quickly, and combined with this, I get the dizzy/weak, shaky hands symptoms. I am due to see a neurologist next week, as recommended by my doctor.

I assume you are American? I'm British and in the UK, you need your family doctor to refer you to specialists - I can't just go and see an endocrinologist, I have to be referred to one. I'm hoping that the neurologist may be familar with hypoglycemia and then maybe I may get to the bottom of this.

My diet is currently low-gi and I'm a vegetarian. I don't eat white flour, cereal apart from oats, sugar, potatoes, parsnips or white rice. I don't drink any alcohol or caffeine. I have three meals and two snacks everyday. I make sure I have lots of vegetables and protein e.g. low fat cheese, eggs, beans, nuts, tofu. I eat fruit but I limit it to 2-3 portions a day, and obviously not all at once! If I have bread, I only have stoneground wholemeal bread and a maximum of one slice a day (most days I don't have bread). All my pasta is wholemeal and I only eat brown basmati rice. My snacks are usually a price of fruit and a handful of nuts or oatcakes with peanut butter or a wholemeal sesame seed ryvita cracker with cream cheese or homous and celery/carrot sticks.

Boy that sucks, here we can just call a specialist and set up an appointment, we don't need to go through a family doctor first. Read my diet on this forum first, I notice you said you're eating tofu, which is not good.

Okay so have seen neurologist and no go with that - he was like, yeah, you have nothing wrong with you. I'm sorry but I can't help you. I just keep feeling like everyone thinks it's all in my head, like I'm being a hypochrondriac.

I read your diet thing - I never realised tofu was bad - I though because it was a source of protein, it was good to have it. I only have it maybe once a week as there's not much yopu can do with it, but I also noticed you said things like beans, corn, certain nuts and peanut butter were bad for you. If I cut these out, there's not much left for me to eat! If I don't get my protein from these, surely I won't be getting any protein which'll make my hypoglycemia worse? I'd rather die than eat meat.

I thought maybe my next step could be to pay to see a nutritionist and maybe they could help because they could draw up a diet plan for me too. Has nayone on here tried that?

Thanks for listening to me Stan - I feel so alone at the moment - no one seems to care what is happening to me. I'm sure my friends and family think it's all something I've made up.

It might be a good idea to see an endocrinologist. He can do more in-depth testing and possibly a 72-hour fast to see if you might have an insulinoma, a benign tumor on the pancreas that puts out too much insulin, thus causing the b/s to drop.

As far as the fainting, being that you are a vegetarian, have you ruled out anemia? If so, then, yea, look into the b/s issue.

I have an iron tablet everyday and a blood test showed my blood count is normal. Why do people always assume vegetarians must be anaemic!?! I probably have more iron than a lot of meat eaters!
I had a blood test for my pancreas, which I think was supposed to show a tumor, but not sure... It came back normal.

Also, I wondered if others experience symptons after an adrenaline rush. Like if I'm excited or something happens, like falling down the stairs, all the same symptons kick in. I read that adrenaline raises your b/s levels, so I thought maybe because of that, my body has a reaction to it?

I didn't mean anything mean by mentioning the anemia. I was just stating fact. If I only ate meat all the time, I could/would end up with a folic acid deficiency leading to anemia. It's just people thinking through what the possibilities might be. On that note, have you had your B-12 levels tested? If you are a lacto-vegetarian, then you are probably okay in that area.

The adrenaline rush might be your body's reaction to the low blood sugar. I know I get it. That's what lets me know to test, and sure enough, my levels will be below 60(or sometimes below 50!)

Keep searching answers, even if that one test on your pancreas said normal.