I've had physical problems for years. We've looked at all kinds of things from food allergies to cancers, done all the tests for everything from Sinus infections to crohn's disease. After a lot of searching, we finally arrived at IBS. most likely this is all triggered by stress.
The last few months have been abysmal. My stress level has been through the roof and it's really impacted my health. Because the IBS has been raging, food has become a major issue. I know I do not eat enough or eat reglarly. I'm concious of my diet, but food choices usually lead to a major internal debates as to what I can eat and how it will impact me. More often than not, I skip eating rather than deal with the side effects.
In short, I've kind of screwed myself health-wise.
In the last three months, I've started having what I thought were panic attacks. My heart starts racing, I have a hard time catching my breath. The first time I thought I was having a heart attack. Anxiety medication did nothing to stop or reduce the level of the attacks. Thats when I happened onto a book about Hypoglycemia.
All the symptoms seemed to match. And, reading here about stress and adrenal depletion causing hypo, it all seems to finally be coming together. I'm starting to think the condition I've been trying so hard to figure out all these years is actually some form of hypoglycemia.
I had a blood glucose test years ago and the results were kind of funky. My doctor didn't think anything of it because I'm pretty slender. Since I wasn't overweight (I fight to keep weight on), he said not to worry about it.
Since I started to suspect hypo, I've kept track of my sugar with a home glucose monitor. I don't seem to react too much to eating food. My sugars rarely rise above 102. Once it went to 145 after eating but that was it. I tend to hoover around the low 90's. When I'm feeling "hypo" the sugars are usually in the low 70's. Anything below 85 and I feel hypo.
From what I've read, these don't seem to be numbers that are out of the ordinary. Are they normal? Is there such a thing as "normal"?
Until the panic attacks started I was extremely active, dancing or swiming several days a week. Since the attacks began, my energy levels are almost non-existent. I'd love to get back to being physical again but I just don't have the energy. I spend the whole weekend in bed or laying low just recooperating from my work week.
Does this sound like hypo? Should I see someone about this?
