hypoglycemia symptoms returned Posted: 01-02-08 19:45pm
Hello everyone,
I'm new to this form but not new to
hypoglycemia. I was diagnosed at age 10
after a 6 hour gtt as having reactive
hypoglycemia. I'm now 22. For about 7
years I thought that my hypoglycemia has
essentially disappeared as I was more or
less without symptoms. I realize now
that I was not without symptoms but rather
that my symptoms had changed and I was
simply not recognizing them anymore.
During those years I developed some severe
mental problems and fatigue and IBS.
Probably from eating a lot of processed
sugar and not balacing my meals. Well
this past summer I started to see a
chiropract who without knowing my history
of reactive hypo suggested that I probably
had some sugar processing issues. I
sheepishly admitted to her that I had
been DXed with hypo as a child but hadnt'
followed the diet in about 7 years and had
stopped checking my blood sugar a long
time ago. She challenged me to start
checking my sugar again and see if I was
indeed having sugar processing issues.
Well, my glucometer was at my parents
house and I was at college. So when I
came home three weeks ago for christmas I
started checking my sugar again and found
that my sugar was constanly borderline low
(as in the highest numbers I've gotten
have been in the 70's) but that I am very
frequently running quite low (in the 40's
and 50's). I found that the symptoms that
I'm having when I'm in the 40's are not
the same symptoms that I had as a child.
In the past I would get dizzy and shakey
and tearful when my sugar was too low.
Now I just get flushed and feel as though
I have a fever but can still function
even as low as 40.
I know the first thing I need to do is
make some serious changes to my diet. I'm
a college student on the two a day meal
plan so I usually only eat two meals a
day. And they aren't the most healthy
meals. They tend to be high in carbs and
low in protein (especially since the only
meat/animal I'll eat is turkey and
chicken).
I also have a question for whoever wants
to answer it--- when I was diagnosed at
age 10 I was told that I would be diabetic
by the time I was an adult because my
pancreas would wear out. Well I'm 22 and
I'm not a diabetic so I'm not sure whether
to believe that I'm at imminent risk of
developing diabetes. Should I be worried
about this?
Thanks!
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Stan
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Posted: 01-07-08 00:26am
Damn, those are some BAD readings right
there, you need to start really working on
this diet. Is there any possible way you
can make your own meals? It's highly
doubtful you can get any relief on any
meal plan unless the school will help you
and give you special meals that remove
excess sugars and such. Hypoglycemia is
considered a pre-diabetic condition,
eventually it should, or I might just need
to say will, start to cause your pancreas
to get worn out and you'll end up with it.
I in fact, as far as my glucose readings
show, was starting to get into the
pre-diabetic phase but my diet cancelled
it out and has set me steady. You need to
fix those meals.