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- Type of diabetes
- Prediabetes
- Treatment type
- Diet only
Ok - I was diagnosed as borderline diabetic in 1986, and was put on a diet. In 2010 I read books from the library about reactive hypoglycemia and switched to that diet instead, and got much better results.
But I suspected that my husband has reactive hypoglycemia and we did a home GTT test on him, as our GP in the UK refused to give him that test.
The results we got from that showed that he has flat curve response reactive hypoglycemia. He has nearly all the symptoms shown in "the low blood sugar handbook" by ED and Patricia Krimmel. That book is very informative and I fully recommend it.
His fasting was 5.9 then throughout the full 6 hours he remained lower than his fasting and finished at 4.1 Also he had dropped lower than his fasting within 1 hour.
The problem we are having is convincing the GP's in the UK that he has this condition, as they say he has to drop much lower than than to have reactive hypoglycemia. All the specialists in America and Austrialia have much better information than UK, as they recognise that this is flat curve respose reactive hypoglycermia and they say it is not how low but how soon it drops and how long it is below the fasting level that counts for more, added to this the patients symptoms. Obviously we would prefer a more accurate intravenous test, and the GP's are simply refusing to test my husband with the proper 6 hour GTT test that we beleive is required to diagnose this problem.
GP's in UK seem to have no undrstanding of this condition either. Cus I have read in many reactive hypoglycemia books that symptoms can take 4 months to improve even on the correct diet. And our GP's say that he would have been better after just one meal!
My husband is suffering from terrible mental health problems, and medication didn't last for him and made him worse. I read in these books that medication will not last for someone with reactive hypoglycemia if they don't change their diet.
We have 4 children and we want them to also be tested - to reduce future serious problems. But we are simply getting no help from the GP's in the UK for this. Does anyone have any advise for us in England please. I already have all the good advice from the charity group in America www.hypoglycemia.org - but we need proffesional support from Enland UK please.
They keep using all the wrong tests. I don't beleive the HB1AC would find reactive hypoglycemia either, cus you are not given sugar to see the reaction that gives. Can anyone help us with this?
But I suspected that my husband has reactive hypoglycemia and we did a home GTT test on him, as our GP in the UK refused to give him that test.
The results we got from that showed that he has flat curve response reactive hypoglycemia. He has nearly all the symptoms shown in "the low blood sugar handbook" by ED and Patricia Krimmel. That book is very informative and I fully recommend it.
His fasting was 5.9 then throughout the full 6 hours he remained lower than his fasting and finished at 4.1 Also he had dropped lower than his fasting within 1 hour.
The problem we are having is convincing the GP's in the UK that he has this condition, as they say he has to drop much lower than than to have reactive hypoglycemia. All the specialists in America and Austrialia have much better information than UK, as they recognise that this is flat curve respose reactive hypoglycermia and they say it is not how low but how soon it drops and how long it is below the fasting level that counts for more, added to this the patients symptoms. Obviously we would prefer a more accurate intravenous test, and the GP's are simply refusing to test my husband with the proper 6 hour GTT test that we beleive is required to diagnose this problem.
GP's in UK seem to have no undrstanding of this condition either. Cus I have read in many reactive hypoglycemia books that symptoms can take 4 months to improve even on the correct diet. And our GP's say that he would have been better after just one meal!
My husband is suffering from terrible mental health problems, and medication didn't last for him and made him worse. I read in these books that medication will not last for someone with reactive hypoglycemia if they don't change their diet.
We have 4 children and we want them to also be tested - to reduce future serious problems. But we are simply getting no help from the GP's in the UK for this. Does anyone have any advise for us in England please. I already have all the good advice from the charity group in America www.hypoglycemia.org - but we need proffesional support from Enland UK please.
They keep using all the wrong tests. I don't beleive the HB1AC would find reactive hypoglycemia either, cus you are not given sugar to see the reaction that gives. Can anyone help us with this?