Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) Support Group
The term hypoglycemia literally means "low blood sugar." Hypoglycemia can produce a variety of symptoms and effects but the principal problems arise from an inadequate supply of glucose as fuel to the brain, resulting in impairment of function. Derangements of function can range from vaguely "feeling bad" to coma and in the worst case, can be fatal.
Hi, I am new to this support group. I have had hypoglycemia for awhile now. I am just struggling to balance it all out and control it.
I have went to the doctor and she said to ear small meals a day (eat enough protein & sugar). I feel when I eat a meal or a small snack I feel low about an hour later.
The snacks I am eating are : peanut butter on bread, apple with peanut butter, cheese and crackers.
I am a small gal that weighs about 120 pounds... I don't eat a lot. Maybe I need to eat more, but I don't want to gain weight. I am currently trying to tone up. On that note, after I work out I feel incredibly low. I have to stop workouts at times. I have also had situations where I about passed out.
I get headaches, anxiety, dizziness, and it is hard to focus.
Am I not eating the right snacks? enough food? Could it be my insulin?
This is a never ending battle.
Karah
I have went to the doctor and she said to ear small meals a day (eat enough protein & sugar). I feel when I eat a meal or a small snack I feel low about an hour later.
The snacks I am eating are : peanut butter on bread, apple with peanut butter, cheese and crackers.
I am a small gal that weighs about 120 pounds... I don't eat a lot. Maybe I need to eat more, but I don't want to gain weight. I am currently trying to tone up. On that note, after I work out I feel incredibly low. I have to stop workouts at times. I have also had situations where I about passed out.
I get headaches, anxiety, dizziness, and it is hard to focus.
Am I not eating the right snacks? enough food? Could it be my insulin?
This is a never ending battle.
Karah
Assuming you are reactive hypoglycaemic then diet is the key issue but it may take time to correct itself.
Your snacks are not fantastic and sugar is the last thing that you want in your diet. Get a good peanut butter without sugar. Have crackers if they are low GI and no white bread. Is it possible that you are having sugary drinks? Be careful with coke (including diet), fruit juices, refined carbs and sugars. Look at breakfast cereals as they can major culprits.
Get a good balance between protein and complex carbs. You may find that you need to cut down on carbs initially until you have got things under control. Basic message is eat healthily and avoid processed foods.
Phil
Are you drinking enough water during your workouts? Dehydration can feel like low blood sugar (if you test and your sugar is ok, drink lots of water).
If you are drinking diet drinks and crashing afterward then there could be two reasons, 1. caffeine 2. artificial sweeteners. Some folks are sensitive to them to the point that we actually have sugar dumps afterward.(I was tested at my endo's office, this happens, it's not hypothetical) Our brains see sucralose (for example) as super duper sugar and it sets up our pancreas to spit out insulin even though we haven't actually eaten sugar...and we drop. So IF you are drinking diet drinks maybe cut way back and go with water and herbal teas or decaf tea or coffee.
However, I had to use insulin to lower sugar any way larer.
Sugar was under tight control. About two month again, I was walking in the street every day about 40 minutes , But probably sugar went low. At night time sugar fell quickly.
From than I am having shakiness and internal tremmor. and it is already month it is not going. Now sugar is not low but some times, it is higher.
Can any body suggest me, how to get rid of this symptoms?