Sorry for being a semi-lurker. Have a question.
I’ve been dealing with hypoglycemic symptoms since my mid-teens. It’s something I just learned to deal with. Only recently have I wanted to get this medically stamped.. mainly because I want to see a nutritionist about it.
The doctor tested me for diabetes because he wasn’t listening. My glucose after a 12-hour sleeping fast was normal (80). The only abnormality was a high iron level which apparently has nothing to do with glucose level, but might be a marker of my Celtic heritage. The doctor refused to give me a glucose tolerance test based on these results, despite me explaining my symptoms only occur when I eat lots of sugar (processed is the worse, but natural isn’t much better) on an empty stomach. Which doesn’t seem like something a healthy person would do, but go to a movie theatre—candy, popcorn, soda. I want to be my age and complete the ritual that is movie watching, so I eat some and suffer. Same with pancakes. Pancakes for breakfast is like murder. Or a breakfast of fruit. I feel sick.
Anyway, the doctor explained that hypoglycemics couldn't fast without serious drops in sugar. Me trying to explain that my problem is reactive hypoglycemia was ineffective.
Anyway, my sugar is a bit Looney while I’m awake. (I have a blood sugar kit.) I ate a big breakfast this morning---bagel with sausage, egg and cheese, a fried potato “thing”, orange juice and oatmeal. I’m a heavy breakfaster. Eight hours later (fasting) my glucose level was at 72. 12 hours later it was at 78. Fasting. Right. So I'm assuming my liver kicked in and did its job.
I decided to do a test. I took 75 grams of pure cane sugar (about the content of two cokes) and mixed it in water. I drank the water. I know this isn’t absolute, but it gives me the idea of how my body works and is an effective proof that sugar works against my body, not for it. From my understand, normally people would go very high and slowly drop down to about 100 or so by the third hour. These were the results:
Starting (78)
30 minutes—131
1 1/2 hours—100
2 1/2 hours— 70
3 hours- 66
Right, so, is this normal? Okay? Not good? Symptoms were feeling cold, minor headache, nausea. By the 3rd hour I felt so weak that I had to eat something and I did. (Was planning on the legit four hour test.)
I live in the UK at the moment so I can't afford the test if the doctor won't give it to me.
