Is hypoglycemia real?
How is one diagnosed? How is it treated?
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One is diagnosed the same way as one is tested for diabetes. You start with a glucose test.
Tretament depends on the cause. It may be cause by medications, such as Bactrim.
The most common non-diabetes causes include:
Cardiac disease
Medication side effects
A mental health disorder like generalized anxiety disorder
A metabolic disorder like hyperthyroidism
Well a friend diagnosed herself as hypoglacemic. She says al those symptoms hit her if her first meal of the day involves sugar, like syrup. She gets dizzy and irritated. Rick is the same way.
However all the sources say it comes from low blood sugar and eating something sweet raises the blood sugar. So why would syrup set it off?
It’s real.
A lot of people say they are hypoglycemic or they will say they feel like their sugar is low if they haven’t eaten, but the truth is that is extremely unlikely in people who don’t have hypoglycemia and eat a normal diet and are normal weight. The average person has their sugar stay in normal range even if they miss a few meals, their body releases sugar from storage.
My husband is annoying, grouchy, and short tempered when he is hungry and he is in total denial about it, which I find frustrating. I seriously doubt he has a sugar problem though. HIs fasting glucose is always normal.
The syrup story doesn’t make much sense. I guess maybe she put that together with people who say if you eat carbs or sweets in the morning you get a sugar high and then a crash, but again, most likely she does not have hypoglycemia. She can get her sugar tested and find out. You can buy a test kit in the drug store.
@Dutchess_III I think the problem there is in the two words “diagnosed herself”.
Okay, I’ll bite.
True hypoglycemia in the absence of medication side effects (such as overdose of insulin) is extremely rare. So most people who say they are hypoglycemic are actually not hypoglycemic.
Not going to follow this question because I don’t want to get into any arguments with anybody about it.
If she was hypoglycaemic, she would wake up feeling sick and in need of food right away and if she didn’t eat, she would get light headed and may pass out. A short stack of pancakes with syrup would help, not hinder. Taking your insulin shot and then not eating could make you hypoglycaemic and can lead to unconsciousness and can lead to diabetic coma. It sounds like the opposite of hypoglycaemia and your friend may be suffering from symptoms of DKA. (Diabetic ketoacidosis) Because she mentions this happens in the morning, especially. Is she overweight?
Assuming they’re not diabetic it sounds like what is often described as postprandial hypoglycaemia (sugar crash) after a high carbohydrate meal. It’s associated with gastric bypass surgery and some neuronendocrine tumours but usually just eating way too much carbohydrates in a meal.
@Lightlyseared agree. It would depend when she starts feeling horrible after the meal. A sugar crash happens 4 or so hours after the meal, not immediately after or during. In the US, sugar is added to three out of four of the products found on grocery shelves, making it nearly impossible to avoid. (healthyfoodamerica.org) Adding syrup or more sugar to pre-packaged instant oatmeal, or pancakes made with box-mix, is adding sugar to sugar. It takes me a long time to shop in the grocery stores in the US because it’s a label-reading treasure hunt for actual food.
She is not overweight in the least. I’d say her BMI is perfect.
Rick is not overweight, but he says the same thing happens to him when he has pancakes (or waffles) with syrup.
Just trying to figure this out. So many people claim to be hypoglycemic that I just don’t know what to think any more. That’s why I wonder if it’s real.
@Dutchess_III When does she start to feel poorly? Right after she eats or 3 or 4 hours later? A professor friend of mine got extremely short tempered when we had outings and it took us a while but we worked out it was his first symptom of needing to drink some water. Our metabolism is a funny thing. shrug Our endocrine system is taken for granted until it start going haywire.
@sorry…she says in about half an hour. Rick says after 2 hours.
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