The symptoms you describe are consistent with hypoglycemia. However, do you have any other symptoms other than those you describe? The banana thing makes total sense because, well, it's generally the worst fruit on the planet and disastrous for many hypoglycemics. If you have it, that's what made you sick, not to mention whatever is in those bars.

Other symptoms are I seem to want sweets alot. Then I eat them and feel a watering under my tongue, like throwing up feelings. The urgises to eat the sweets feel uncontrolable and I try to eat healthy so the unhealthy eating makes me feel deppresed.

Have you tried working with your diet to see how your body adjusts?

When I work with my diet that usually means I am on a diet which is cutting out all sugars basically anything bad for me. That usually causes me to want sugar to an even more extreme. Eventually I just fall off the diet.

It's likely your problem then. Can you handle carbohydrates (complex) fairly well? If so, I recommend you adjust your diet and replace simple sugars with complex carbohydrates to get the best results. Keep going off the diet and eating like you do and you're just going to keep getting worse. This is the only way.

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Why do people with hypoglycemia need to avoid caffeine. How does it affect you. I drink coffee every day, I do not use sugar or any artificial sweetner. I do use no dairy creamer is that bad also.

Dairy creamers are bad, but not using them is good! The reason caffeine is bad in most cases, even small amounts, is that the essential 'high' people experience from it is not actually caffeine itself, but the liver releasing glucogen stores in response to it, which in turn raises the blood sugar. This is why you feel high after it, but for hypoglycemics this makes the pancreas interpret the rise as bad, and it promptly shuts it down but it's even worse than food because there's nothing in the body to even remotely stabalize it. I learned this the hard way one day before I knew for certain what I had.

The caffeine info makes sense. I will now be drinking decaf. Before getting this info my normal routine was to drink two cups of coffee every morning thats the first thing I do. Today is the first day I will start changing my diet. Stan I looked over your diet and it seems pretty intense. quick question can I have whole grain bread, on the label it says there is no sugar. Stan your diet says no carrots, but I got an email from some guy the one promoting his book, anyways he said you can have carrots I read on the carrot package carrots contain sugar. I've decided I have to change my diet because I have to get control of my life back. But I'm definatly going to have a hard time with alcohol, I normaly drink 1 to 2 glasses of wine with dinner around four times a week, and living in Miami every weekend I go out and drinking is involved. I've decided to stop drinking wine at home and cutting back on the drinking when I'm out. At this stage in my life I can't cut alcohol out altogether, but I'm definetly going to cut back. Thank you so much Stan for providing me with this info, your a great person to help so many in need.

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I have had lots of attacks in the last 3 months weakness, limb heaviness and slurred speech followed by tiredness. Only lasts a little while. Doctor originally thought TIA but due to the fact I have had 8 now since October and they all coincide with not eating they now think hypo's. Am very worried though as no-one seems to be sure either way. I am a musician so eating patterns are strange but they never happen when I have eaten regularly and after a mars I sart to feel better !! Does this sound like the same thing ?

Ashley, be very careful of decaf. As far as I know not all of the caffeine has been removed, only part, and any bit will still have the same effect. It may still be wise, however, so you don't quit it cold turkey. My diet is mainly tailored for the quickest results and is very good for anyone who is dealing with the dreaded saw-tooth curve type of reactive hypoglycemia. It's not necessary to follow it word for word. Whole grain bread may be perfectly fine, as long as it says 100% whole grain on the label, if it doesn't stay away from it. I do still recommend avoiding carrots and all root vegetables. They are not very good for one's health and some of the healthiest people in the world are healthy because they don't eat them. In fact, some health practitioners theorize that Russians are always so depressed and moody because their diets are so high in them (beets and potatoes are like meat over there for the most part). If you want to eat some carrots, I recommend no more than say, two or three baby carrots, per salad or however. Don't eat a lot of them. The book you mention has a diet that's part of a newer movement (started some time in the 70s I think), to redo the hypoglycemia diet from what it was when it was discovered. It used to be high protein low carbohydrate. The reason people started to think high, complex carbohydrates were okay was that fears started to rise over meat products that are completely false but yet still persist (cholestrol myths, myths about red meat, etc.). Unfortunately, those high carbohydrate diets do not work very well for most hypoglycemics I've talked to as suggested. Some can handle them, but others can't. The problem is that those that can usually don't see any significant progress for over a year in most cases, which no one has the time to wait for with families, work and so forth. Plus, research now is starting to show that the high carbohydrate diet eaten by humans over the past 8,000 years is actually one of the main causes for all of our modern health concerns. There are some very good articles about it if you're interested. Alcohol should, unfortunately for you, be cut out almost completely. In fact, no, it should be completely cut out. I'm sure you can have fun without it, do you really need to drink to have fun? You may eventually be able to handle a glass of wine here and there but it's very difficult to say and very dangerous to play with. Ian, it sounds like you probably have a version of hypoglycemia called functional, which means that you're getting hypoglycemic symptoms simply because you're not eating enough. Regular meals should correct the problem, but you likely won't have to make any restrictions on what you eat.