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Ot low blood sugar
Sfariah D
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I have to go into work but Thursday I felt sick and the only way I could describe it is low blood sugar. The manager on duty did not believe me. My gm thinks I have to be diabetic or something to feel low blood sugar. I tried to defend myself but she still does not believe me.
I knew I did not eat much on Thursday. I thought low blood sugar problems happen when I go too long without eating. Am I going crazy?
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It is extremely extremely rare for anyone who is not Diabetic to suffer from hypoglycemia
Nobody has ever suggested diabetes to me, and I get exactly the same thing (I thought everyone did, to be honest). However, it's rectified fairly quickly by eating something and has never warranted a day off work. Have you considered a food allergy? I'm allergic to fish and feel the low blood sugar symptoms plus sickness, headache and flu-like symptoms. I've pretty much learned what to avoid, but last week ate some chips that, unknown to me, were cooked in oil that had previously been used to fry fish in. That one took me out for four days. I hope whatever it is gets sorted for you soon :)
Reactive hypoglycaemia
Reactive hypoglycaemia is possibly the most common reason for hypoglycaemia in non-diabetics but is often overdiagnosed.
This form of hypoglycaemia is probably caused by an overproduction of insulin from the pancreas after a large meal with a lot of carbohydrates.
What happens during a hypoglycaemic episode?
Hypoglycaemia can cause some or all of the following symptoms:
These symptoms will often occur about three to four hours after a meal.
What can you do yourself?
If hypoglycaemia is suspected with the symptoms similar to those above coming on three to four hours after a meal and going away after eating sugar, it should be confirmed that the symptoms are caused by low blood glucose.
Many people say they have hypoglycaemia without having low blood glucose diagnosed!
I am just sick of work, don't think can you get a certificate for that
I can feel my blood sugar being low as well and I have only recently been tested thoroughly for diabetis (negative). But usually, as mentioned, that can be remedied with something to eat within an hour. The way to feel over a longer time usually suggests some other disease coming up you body is fighting. If in doupt see a physician
I suggest you visit the doctor if you think you have an illness of some type. Low blood sugar is not a disease but a consequence of your body using all it's easily available fuel. It happens to everyone at times everyday and the best way to avoid it is not to become over reliant on fast food and candies in your diet. The lightheadedness that some attribute to low blood sugar is likely more due to dehydration though, especially for coffee and redbull drinkers. That is not enough fluid intake.
My son is hypoglycemic from birth and one of the things his doctors has always told us is for him to always carry juice AND glucose tablets with him at all times. Even now that he is in University, I always text him to remind him to have a bottle of cranberry juice on hand. When he was younger there were days when he was just lethargic....and I would have to force him to eat something.
As for myself, being in my mid-forties and as a former sugar addict, I find that if I have something overly sweet during the evening (cake, pie, etc), I would wake up in the morning feeling like a truck hit me....this started just recently the past 2 years. As we age, I think we started to develop some sort of food intolerance. Always a good idea to get yourself checked by your doctor.
Some of these symptoms are also common to low iron. The lower it goes, the more of them you get. Happened to me a few times, I thought I was getting diabetes as it runs in my family on both sides. But no, it was the iron. Might be worth your while to get that checked out too if you haven't already.
I hope you visit other doctors for 2nd opinions. The clue is you had to force him to eat something - no eating means no fuel means depleted glucose and low blood sugar. One can't be overreliant on doctors either as they report what lab tests show and often lackcadaisical in their investigation of a patient's total health, especially nutrition. They depend on their labs results and misinterpret the results without enough information about the patient. The patient or one that is familiar with the patient must familiarize themselves with a general understanding of the health situation. And for every place I've ever visited a doctor for, there is scant investigation by doctors into the nutritional aspects of their patient's health. One should receive a thorough survey via postal mail and fill out a diary of nutrition for one month to return to the doctor for evaluation but I know of no doctor that does that. I used to get dizzy standing as a child and almost black out and have the shakes but it was because of far to much activity and not enough food and water to sustain that activity and, an at the time undiagnosed mitral valve prolapse would have contributed. Breakfasts with complex carbs as found in potatoes or yams are effective against hypoglcemia. Breakfasts of pop tarts are not. It is problematic that physical activity levels aren't as much as they should be in most Americans due to how civil engineering has built our neighborhoods so easily coming up with a proper diet isn't easy. Lethargy often disappears with physical activity and is normal when waking.
Hypoglycemia can be quite dangerous. Did you have gastric bypass? That can do it. I have it. You must eat when you experience it and you'll be fine. Still you need to find out why your body is doing this.
My son was born with a condition that makes him hypoglycemic, and has been around endocrinologists from the time he was born and in fact is required to visit his endocrinologist at least 3 times each year. He takes daily medication to stabilize his blood sugar among other things.When I say force to eat, it is because when he is lethargic, he himself does NOT know he is being lethargic and will/can just pass it off as being sleepy and such and will obviously not have the energy to even think of eating let alone actually getting something to eat. With his condition, he can't and shouldn't really miss any meals whatsoever. When he was younger I had to prick him to get a read out of his glucose level, but luckily, as he got older we've never had to really do that.
If you live fairly far from the equator and feel lethargic during the winter, you might want to try vitamin D. Vitamin D deficiency is EXTREMELY common among people who don't work outside a lot (you need plentiful sunlight).
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/about-vitamin-d/am-i-deficient-in-vitamin-d/
Hrm. That reminds me, I should pick up some.
if your vitamin D deficient all you need to do is sit outside every day for at least a half hour in the sun. It will stabilize it. I do suffer from it and my Dr told me to do that and it does work.
There is no one criterion for dx of hypoglycemia. Lab test help but may not be definative. A six hour GTT is one way. The lab draws blood and takes UA for baseline. Then you get drink the god awful GluCola. At 30 to 60 minute inervals, blood is drawn and UA is obtained. If the person is hypoglycemic, there is a spike in blood glucose during the first hour followed by a significant low reading. If the patient does not have DM or is tending toward the condition, blood sugar will equal out. As with all lab tests, nothing is fool proof. I suggest finding a good endocrinologist and letting he/she do a full work up.
It doesn't seem that bad, last big hypoglycemia attack I had I dislocated both shoulders bit my tongue nearly choked on the blood, tore my hamstring and put several disks out in my back. I had to get titanium pins in one shoulder because I broke the bones. It's like being in a car crash, your whole body keeps contracting till your joint give way. So if you don't want that to happen to you I'd get to a doctor pronto, mind you, you're not an insulin depended one so you got the easy one but get it checked out !
You can get a glucose tolerance test, to see if you're hypoglycemic. If your sugar level goes below 40, I think, when they're graphing it, you have hypoglycemia.
I had hypoglycemia, in my early 20s. No diabetes yet, that I know of.
Eat like Michel Lotito, then you'll never suffer from iron (or rubber, aluminum, glass etc.) deficiency...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Lotito
Many of them are also common with hyponatremia (low sodium), and it can be quite dangerous if misdiagnosed. Been there, have the bill for the overnight hospital stay to prove it...
I'm a diabetic, so of course the ER staff assumes it's my blood sugar even though I don't present any of the normal symptoms for hypoglycemia nor hyperglycemia, It's even documented in my chart that I don't present those symptoms except with low sodium or low iron levels and they still make the assumption it's my glucose that's the issue.
You don't have to be diabetic to suffer from hypoglcemia, but that's usually the way it works. I was hypoglycemic for years, but the GTT didn't show anything. They decided that I was borderline. Eating smaller, more frequent meals was recommeded, and it reduced the frequency and severity of the attacks. In late 2014, my wife took me to the hospital when I was staggering around and talking incoherently; they found my blood sugar was 512. Turns out I was diabetic and didn't realize it. I'm not trying to scare you, but in my case, the high bs cased two strokes (one of which caused seizures), and renal failure. I got lucky; the strokes didn't cause any lasting damage, and I've been off dialysis for a year now, but I could have had a much worse result.
You might be hypoglycemic. Or diabetic. Or some other problem. Get to a doctor or hospital and find out. Besides straightening out you health, it will give you the proof you need to deal with your bosses when this issue rears its ugly head.