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UMmm LOL just if you think it all sounds about right. since my last post ive done some more research, I was completely anxiety free, eating great and excersising daily, and last june i fell pregnant and after an abortion all my symptoms started again. I read some info on pregnancy and hypoglycemia and its all making sense.
my first attack happened after not eating all day and then eating a mars bar i got all dizzy when driving and felt faint and ever since it seems that food makes me this way

Oh, okay, yes those symptoms are consistent, so it's quite possible that's what your problem is.

As everyone knows from my profile I am a veteran. Way back in 1978, I was in the military and I was getting sick every day. I wrote down my symptoms and took them to the Army doctors. They claimed to not have heard of my condition. So they wrote down Generalized Anxiety and seizures instead. They gave me medications for these conditions for the next few years. Needles to say, none of them ever worked on me.
I suffered years that way. I was eating what ever I could get and it was not much for, I had two children and a wife to feed, also.
I went to numerous civilian doctors for tests but, none was performed on me, they just called it anxiety and that was the end of it.
I recently probed my medical records with the help of my lawyer. I found out that the Veterans Hospital and Univeristy Hospital had proven through blood tests that I had hypoglycemia but, went right on treating me for anxiety and seizure on purpose.
I too, demamded to know if there was something wrong with me and the name of the medical condition. The doctors all told me your blood is fine and eat what you want. Now, my lawyer is sueing the hospitals and the government on my behalf.
Sometimes, the doctors like to put down that you have Anxiety when reality tells you it is something else bothering you.
If the doctor told you, you have Anxiety and their meds do not work, please have a second opinion through tests.

Thanks for that dutchmann, yeah i remember when i had my first few panic attacks when i was 18 (four years ago) I told my doctor what i was feeling, and without testing me for anything i was classed as agoraphobic and pushed to a psychologist. admittedly the psychologist helped but like i said 4 years on I dont feel like its mental anymore and im starting to put the pieces together. My doctor has always been useless I only go to him because im used to him and have a terrible fear of doctors since i became agoraphobic. I think its now a combination of hypoglycemia and its symptoms convinving me I have anxiety, I also remember being fed anti depressants, several which left me on my bathroom floor with no vision and convulsing, doc put it down to an allergic reaction (I dont think so) Ive always been very familliar with my own body and am going to start my hypoglycemic diet this week Im kinda scared coz i drink alot of coke and eat alot of sugar, lets hope once my diet is corrected i start feeling better, and by feeling better Id like to know after a few weeks will my anxiety start to minimise?

It will probably take more than a few weeks to start to feel better. You can expect to feel much, much worse at first. Don't take this the wrong way, but reread what I'm about to write here over and over again when you start to feel awful and wonder if you're dying. How will you feel? You are about to enter a living hell, be prepared for that. You're going to feel like you have cancer or something worse.

Oh god, Im really scared now but i guess if i can go 4 years of having a restricted life I can manage feeling like death for a while.
How long are we talking by the way?

Well, I went through total hell for about six years. HOWEVER, this was because I was following recommendations of doctors and books that are out there. BAD idea. I learned quickly that the knowledge out there about this condition was horrible and spent hundreds upon hundreds of hours reading obscure medical studies and texts in order to figure out how the body works and then came up with my diet. After I implemented it, and after using my body as basically a living lab for a few years, it took only around 6 months to feel 100% better. I would say if you follow my advice and stick to your guns, not cheating, you should see a result start to kick in around 2-4 weeks. That's not too bad. DON'T BE AFRAID! I don't want to scare you, I just want you to be aware that you may feel pretty bad, and if it happens you need to know that so you don't get scared or depressed when it happens. Many new hypoglycemics who just learn what they have go into it thinking that by the next day they're going to feel awesome. I can say that this MAY happen, but usually how it goes is you feel great for about a week and then go downhill again as your body fights the process. It depends how long you've been going and exactly how bad you've been eating too, but don't be scared, you will get through it, you'll learn to become quite patient and you'll be given a rare gift in the end, the ability to step outside your own body's drive to control it.

Thankyou so much for all your advice, I guess i'll have to keep focused on the light at the end of the tunnel wish me luck ill post my experiences with the diet!

I was a US Army Sargent for many years during the late 70's and early 80's. I had become sick in my last few years of service. I was having all the symptoms of hypoglycemia back then. I had stomach pains and panic attacks after not eating at regular times. When I did eat too much, I was having seizure-like symptoms. Body jerking, trouble breathing, other symptoms that mimic seizures. My heart was showing abnormal rythemes. My blood pressure was always lower than what was suppose to be normal 120/80. My was 110/70 most of the time. Never did get very higher than that though. For the first few years the VA Hospital chalked it up to Anxiety, stomach ulcers, seizures, etc.....
After 6 yrs went by they sent me over to the University Hospital labs for further blood tests. (1988) The lab test came back hypoglycemia. I overheard a VA doctor say to a nurse, we cannot let this patient know the results of this test. No telling what they would give him. Nurse I do not want another Veteran taking my tax dollars. So, he comes out and tells me, your blood is Ok. Then he writes me out another percription for Xanax and Tegretol. These keep giving me these types of medications for the next 10 yrs. The next few years they put me on a special diet that looks like the hypoglycemic diet we have now but, again they never told me what it was for. Last year, a psychologist ran three A1C test on me and told me it was hypoglycemia and told me the results and had me test my blood glucose at home for awhile. It was spiking allot back then. Lows and highs. I took the results to the Disabled American Veterans and they are sueing the VA now. My lawyer says it was all over money. The VA owed me allot of money and does not want to pay. He says I got a good chance of winning.
Just imagine that, the federal government doing all this harm to me over money. I do not know nor would anyone really know how much damage was done to my body for not treating my condition all these years. It is a real shame.

What were the A1C results? You still won't answer that question. Why in the world would the doctor discuss something that ridiculous where you could hear it? Psychologists don't administer A1C tests, you go to an endocrinologist for that. Furthermore, I'm starting to doubt you even more because A1C CANNOT be used to diagnose hypoglycemia. It's impossible. It's NEVER used for that. Only a GTT can show these results, A1C will show ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IN THIS REGARD. Therefore, you're probably making things up. What were you actually tested for? Anything? Anything at all? Taken directly from a medical text about the usage of the A1C test:

Since HbA1c is not influenced by daily fluctuations in blood glucose concentration, it cannot be used to monitor day-to-day blood glucose concentrations and to adjust insulin doses nor can it detect the day-to-day presence or absence of hyperglycemia or hypoglycemia.

You sure like to pick appart my statements allot and I do not know your motive behind it. THe only conclusion I can come up with is that you are use to being top dog in the compound.
First off the test was order by her because, she was part of a team of doctors that were coming to my house on a weekly basis. She told the MD in charge and the MD ordered the test to be performed. In fact they did the test right there at my kitchen table, on three different times.
The MD on the team got the test back from the lab and handed them to the psychologist and she gave them to me. The pyschologist discussed the results with me. The pyscologist told me that the doctor failed to look at the results thinking that they would come back negative which, they did not. After the MD learned of the test results she told me that I would be dropped from the program. She said she was dropping me because, I had hypoglycemia and that was not a mental disorder.
The doctor and nurse that I over heard were in the room next door and the door was partly open. I stood by the door when I heard my name sir being used, I was curious ok. I have the actual paper work from the labs dated back to (1988). My lawyer sir has a copy as well. You are junt of a million that honestly beleave our country is honest with its veterans and does right by them all. If you believe that than you really are F**l.

I never said that about veterans, I didn't say I believed anything about that, I said the A1C test is NOT used for hypoglycemia, so what you said makes no sense. They wouldn't have administered that test to see, nor would they have done it at your kitchen table. If you have the paperwork, go ahead and post your results.

Now you are saying that the VA does not have a house-bound program. Well, good news, they do have such a programs. Number two, the same tests were repeated in the hospital down the street from my home after I appeared in the Emergency room three times over a two month period.
How else do you explain a person's glucose levels dropping down to the 40's 50's and 60's after just 3 - 4 house after they eat their meal? How else do you explaim the sudden humgry spells when the blood sugar levels drops to 80 mg/dl whole blood measurements. How else do you explain a person shaking, trembling, and nearly fainting when the blood levels drops to 40's and 60's range? How else do you explain when the blood levels climbs up 115 mg/dl whole blood measurements and a person body starts jerking and shortness of breath and dizziness. How else could cause Ketones in the urin test done at the hospital emergency room. Do you know the difference between whole blood measurements and Plasma measuremnets. Please, explain why the sypmptoms of low blood sugar goes away with 10 -15 minutes after consuming a pitch of sugar and a mouth full of Natural orange juice. Please expain why the glusose levels drops drastically after one hour of house work or 20 minutes of riding a bicycle?
You are so smart explain these things to the board memembers.......

That's what I wanted to hear. Now learn to eat right.