Hello everyone,
I think my girlfriend may have hypoglycemia and but I need some help to identify it. She craves sugary foods and since she was little she has always woke up in the middle of the night and had to go to the kitchen for some chocolate. She suffers from mild anxiety usual over money issues...We never have enough! Her anxiety seem to get better if she eats chocolate. She is a smoker and likes to have one beer every other night to relax her. She also consumes a lot of caffiene. She has had panic attacks in the past too with palpatations. She gets really dehydrated during the night. She suffers from mild depression sometimes and has nightmares most nights since she was little. She really wants to get rid of the nightmares. She gets irritable easily. She also gets frequent headaches, and feels tired a lot of the time.
My symptoms are similar apart from I have more anxiety, don't smoke or drink caffiene and never crave sugar. I get eczema on my forehead and the sides of my nose but it comes and goes. I never have nightmares but I do get severly dehydrated all the time. Sometimes I feel like i'm out of my body, and get a impending sense of doom. If I drink a lot of alcohol..The day after my anxiety would be really bad. Recently I have started martial arts and the exercise has toned my anxiety down but it hasn't disappeared completely.
My girlfriend thought she might be diabetic because of her sugar craving but we went many days without sugar while living in the amazon jungle in peru and she was ok.
We went to train with a peruvian shaman to try to heal our anxieties a couple of summers ago. During our healing we went on a no salt, no sugar, no oil diet for 8 days at a time. Our meals consisted of plaintains...Which are like bananas, fish, and eggs and water.
We did three 8 day diets in 6 weeks as part of the purification and we felt amazing afterwards. All our anxieties had gone and she stopped having nightmares. We felt wonderful. After getting back to the western world and eating and drinking rubbish again our with all the other stresses our problems slowly came back.
After reading about hypoglycemia I am starting to wonder whether it was the diet we were on that stabilized our blood sugar and made us feel wonderful. As our jungle diet was similar to the hypoglycemia diet.
Please let me know your opinions :) I would greatly appreciate any help as we are both sick of feeling like this :(
I am thinking of starting a low carb/high protein diet with no sugar, caffiene and very little alcohol and six small meals a day. My only concern is that I need alot of energy for my martial arts classes are they are very strenuous and I dont want to collaspe through lack of carbs!

Thanks alot,
paul