Re: Not hypoglycemic? What is going on?

[Guest guest]

Have you had an insulin test, to measure how much insulin is being poured

out into your blood stream?

Not hypoglycemic? What is going on?

>

> Dear All--

>

> One of my issues for the last ten years has been blood sugar

> problems, and the symptoms are pretty extreme. If I don't eat every

> two to three hours, I tend to get lightheaded, and start to feel as

> though I am going to faint. I have had a fasting blood sugar test

> twice, and a glucose tolerance test-- all of which came back

> negative. I am not overweight.

>

> For awhile now, I have tried lowering my carbohydrate intake to see

> if I could get it under control. I recently stopped drinking juice,

> in an experiment to discover whether not having sugar during the day

> would stop the symptoms. Still, the symptoms come when I least

> expect them, and the only thing that seems to stop them is " heavy "

> foods, foods that contain excess fats, which are not items I really

> want in my diet. Consequently, my cholesterol has gone up.

>

> For the last two days, I've been experimenting with the Pritikin

> diet, a very low-fat, high carbohydrate diet, and yesterday was a

> great day-- I didn't have one single blood sugar drop. Today, I ate

> much similar things, and I've been in a daze since I woke up this

> morning, with a frightening period this afternoon when I was in a

> grocery store and didn't know if I was going to make it home without

> fainting. Luckily, I wasn't driving.

>

> My thyroid is still not optimized, and I am hoping that is all which

> is causing these symptoms. That, and the fatigue, are what drove me

> to the doctor in the first place.

>

> If I am not diabetic, or hypoglycemic, why is my body behaving this

> way? What can I do about it? Why are my doctors dragging their feet

> on this symptom? This one symptom, alone, has controlled my life for

> an entire decade-- my twenties -- and I want to know how to make it

> stop.

>

> Courtenay.

[Guest guest]

Have you had an insulin test, to measure how much insulin is being poured

out into your blood stream?

Not hypoglycemic? What is going on?

>

> Dear All--

>

> One of my issues for the last ten years has been blood sugar

> problems, and the symptoms are pretty extreme. If I don't eat every

> two to three hours, I tend to get lightheaded, and start to feel as

> though I am going to faint. I have had a fasting blood sugar test

> twice, and a glucose tolerance test-- all of which came back

> negative. I am not overweight.

>

> For awhile now, I have tried lowering my carbohydrate intake to see

> if I could get it under control. I recently stopped drinking juice,

> in an experiment to discover whether not having sugar during the day

> would stop the symptoms. Still, the symptoms come when I least

> expect them, and the only thing that seems to stop them is " heavy "

> foods, foods that contain excess fats, which are not items I really

> want in my diet. Consequently, my cholesterol has gone up.

>

> For the last two days, I've been experimenting with the Pritikin

> diet, a very low-fat, high carbohydrate diet, and yesterday was a

> great day-- I didn't have one single blood sugar drop. Today, I ate

> much similar things, and I've been in a daze since I woke up this

> morning, with a frightening period this afternoon when I was in a

> grocery store and didn't know if I was going to make it home without

> fainting. Luckily, I wasn't driving.

>

> My thyroid is still not optimized, and I am hoping that is all which

> is causing these symptoms. That, and the fatigue, are what drove me

> to the doctor in the first place.

>

> If I am not diabetic, or hypoglycemic, why is my body behaving this

> way? What can I do about it? Why are my doctors dragging their feet

> on this symptom? This one symptom, alone, has controlled my life for

> an entire decade-- my twenties -- and I want to know how to make it

> stop.

>

> Courtenay.

[Guest guest]

Dear --

No, I haven't. What would that show? Why don't

doctors mention these things?

Courtenay.

Have you had an insulin test, to

measure how much insulin is being poured

out into your blood stream?

[Guest guest]

Hi, Courtenay,

Have you had an A1C test? Unlike the fasting blood glucose test

which measures your glucose level at the time of the blood test, it

shows the average blood glucose levels for the past 2-3 months by

measuring the amount of blood sugar attached to hemoglobin

molecules. There's also something called the glucose challenge

test. I don't know if this will help -- it's something I learned

from a co-worker who's husband was having problems. So maybe you

can ask one of your docs. Who knows why they drag their feet? Hang

in there, -k-?

> Dear All--

>

> One of my issues for the last ten years has been blood sugar

> problems, and the symptoms are pretty extreme. If I don't eat

every

> two to three hours, I tend to get lightheaded, and start to feel

as

> though I am going to faint. I have had a fasting blood sugar test

> twice, and a glucose tolerance test-- all of which came back

> negative. I am not overweight.

>