hospitalized twice with varying results Posted: 01-20-08 01:12am
back in 1999 I was dx'ed as reactive
hypoglycemia after almost passing out at a
water park.
At home my sugar doesnt allow me to go 2
hours without eating. Then when i hit in
the 80's i drop really quick.
I was in the hospital twice. october
30th... They fed me around 3ish in the
afternoon -- rigatoni, spag sauce
meatballs, greenbeans, salad, apple, and a
diet gingerale. All the rest of the day
and most of the next day... .and my sugar
(according to their tester at the hospital
was toggling between 90's and 80's all
night. then around 3 or so on halloween
day.... it finally went down to 77... ..
(they wanted me to drop below 50's cuz
they said there was some test to run if
you go into or below 50's.
Then they gave me a 5 hour GTT... right
after that.
They were testing my sugar every 1/2 hour
from my finger...andalsodrawing from my
arm for the lab.
the lady from the lab looked at the
results from my finger and told me that
what she was getting from the blood from
the arm was really different.
she said the ones the lab was drawing was
normal.
The onesfrom the fingers was in the high
200's ...infact at onepoint going ashigh
as 289.
I was just in the hospital from jan 13 --
to jan 14th... and i took my sugar tester
with me. Again.. because other tests
they were running (stress tests) i couldnt
eat again (this hospital has a thing for
starving its patients lol)
They were testing me and i was in the 90's
and 100's. I a test a few times to their
tests...and we have vastly different
tests. when they tested me one time..
(15 minutes or so before i tested mine
once--- theirs said 134 and mine read 77)
I had a few other tests that were back to
back from mine to theirs.
if i go 2- 3 hours without eating.... i
get in the 70' and 60's -- and a few times
... in the 50's.
Mostly i stay in the 70's.
I have also noticed that when i do
anything that exerts energy... i drop like
crazy too, even if i just have eatin 15
minutes before. Which isnt good for my
body... or is hard to be intimate with my
husband...
I get very cloudy... and can't function...
sometimes i get the shakes and sometimes i
don't.... sometimes my one arm goes
completely and i can't use it at all (this
is usually in the 60's and 50's.)
i have been sticking close to the house. I
dont see how long i can go away from the
house having to eat every two hours... and
having to take all that food with me. I
also have panick disorder ... so that
makes it worse. When i panick... my sugar
drops... also.
I follow a diabetic diet. I ahve tried
the 'low carb diet... and for 2 weeks it
worked.. then all of a sudden i started
only being able to stay within a good
sugar level for a 1/2 hour.
I gave my meal plan to my dietician at a
diabetes clinic... and she said it looks
good..
then why am i still having such an issue.
can someone help me. Mornings are the
worst.
I eat Eggs, whole wheat toast, 1/2 cup of
fried potatoes in butter, (sometimes
broccoli, and sometimes cheese, and
sometimes both in my eggs), v8 drink, and
i try for either an apple or grapefruit.
-- she said that this was a good
breakfast.
I have trouble staying with good sugar
till lunch. or even a snack inbetween.
---- if u need any more i info.. just let
me know.
Thank you in advance.
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Stan Stepanic
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Posted: 01-25-08 14:08pm
You're not going to like this, but in your
case it sounds like, as in mine and many
people on here, you need to eliminate a
lot of those carbs you're eating.
Potatoes should be totally avoided at
first, and unless you're buying really,
really good bread it's not going to be
doing you any good. However, due to your
severe symptoms (the panic, by the way,
you'll find will be ONLY due to this)
you're not going to see any results until
you go mainly low carb with a focus on
fruits and vegetables. Here's how I know
that. What you describe above is the
typical reaction. Feeling good for around
2 weeks and then suddenly feeling bad
again. Unfortunately, there is NOTHING
you can do about this, you have to keep
eating the diet until your body slowly
gets normal again, and, not going to like
this, it could take up to a year or a
little longer to see the results you want.
There is nothing else you can do, but if
you want, there's a dangerous medicine
called diazoxide they can prescribe. I
don't recommend it though.
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