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Q: Hi All, Needing Help With Hypoglycemia Problems !
asked by: ET_mtl on April 9th, 2007
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First off , sry if the english is not perfect english is my second language , im french canadian .

Hello
My name is Etienne , I am 22 and ive been suffering from hypoglycémia since I am 17 (all started after a mononucleose). I recently change my alimentation, in the last 6 months i havent drink alchool except on 2 occasion. I try to eat at regular hours, generaly 6 times a day. I dont eat sugar or rafined flour, Only complex carbs (integral bred). But even after all that im still struggling with general fatigue, sudden drop in energy level, sensation of being out of it and many more including anxiety.

The change in my regime helped alot and I would say its keeping me alive but even after all those change i still feel really sensible and its really blocking me in my everyday life. Sometimes i can go to bed feeling perfectly good (no symptomes, feeling like a king my mind and body are working fine) and then wake up in the morning and feel like its the worst morning of my life.

I am also waking up early and doing regular exercises, but all those changes did not have the impact i wish they had when i start doing them ( like i said, they sure did help alot, but not enough). I am 22 , i use to be a really confident good looking guy but because of all the problems hypoglycemia is causing i lost great deal of confidence , im starting to go bald, i look skinnier , my skin doesnt look as healty as it use to, and all of that sucks and it feel as if I CANT do nothing to change it and thats the hardest part.

I look at the stan diet and i was wondering if anyone had good result with it and if i should try it.

P.s My hypoglycemia is diagnoste , my blood test show a huge drop in sugar level 2 hours after i eat and a generally low level of blood sugar for the rest of the time , like if my body couldnt raise it back after the drop.
(my dad also been strugulling with hypoglycemia problem troughout his life).

Heres a few thinbgs i might be doing wrong

- Tendencies to over eat at dinner time and supper ( i generally eat average to big meal there)

- I eat dairy product including milk , cheese always lower then 20 percent milk fat. (Dairy product are the easiest way to get your protein amd i was surprised to see stan didnt use it in his regime)

- I eat integral bread and usually i try to balance my snack with 1-2 portion of protein (nuts, cheese....) and 1 of carb (piece of bread brown rice ...)

- I often take a nap at the end of the afternoon were my wenergie is at the lowest. Any tought on that ?!

THINGS I WOULD LIKE TO CONTROL

- Waking up and feeling good in the morning for once

- Not having to worry all the time abouth how i will feel in an hour

- Stabilising everything , knowing i can depend on my body during a date a dinner, when i exercise or anything else.


Is there any hope ? any of you know anyone who cleared up there hypoglycemia and can now have a normal life with the occasionnal drink with friends from time to time?

Im willing to be patient and take the time but i want to feel like a real man again , i mean if i had a strong healt in the past theres no reason why i couldnt get back to it.

Thanks in advance for all the answer

Etienne
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Stan
replied on April 10th, 2007
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First off, don't drink, it will keep you sick and ruin your progress. I've known some patients who have taken weeks to recover from trying alcohol. My diet is very, very extreme, and really the only diet out there that will correct the saw-tooth curve type of reactive hypoglycemia, which it sounds like you have. If your sugar drops every two hours, you have it. The fat content, however, I don't think is a good idea, I have a new diet now that I am going to add to this forum soon. There are good recommendations in there, though. Overeating really should't be a problem, though you shouldn't be doing it. I try to eat more protein the last meal of the day and less carbohydrates. Carbohydrates, later in the evening, should be coming only from vegetables. If you're eating whole grain bread (be certain it says 100% whole grain on the package, otherwise it isn't), you should not be eating it past 4PM I'd say. Cheese is fine, I suggest to avoid milk because it's basically a simple sugar. If you look at the label, it will say around 14g of carbohydrates, and then below that you'll see the same grams of sugar. That's because all of the carbohydrates are sugar. Milk products are only to be used in soured form (ie cheese, yogurt with not additives only plain, kefir, etc.). Plain milk can give you problems, unless you can purchase it raw, which isn't easy to find now. What is your current carbohydrate intake and where does it come from? List some foods you eat. It can take over a year to feel like yourself again, but I'll bet you're making some mistakes somewhere in there. If you're ever able to drink alcohol again, it will be in very, very small amounts and not for a long, long time. Keep drinking it and you'll never get better. If you think you need to drink alcohol to have fun, you need to rethink your life.
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