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- Type of diabetes
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- Other
Folks, you have helped! This false hypo really rings true. I can see my blood sugar moving in steps rather than gradually - it's how my body seems to work.
It sounds like it would be a good idea to get a doctor to look into this for you. If you are not happy with your current doctor, you can always see a different one.My doctor does nothing. I can only assume what's normal for some...I've lived with it for about 15 years so I suppose I'll just have to carry on. Reading some of the RH info above I think I'll try even more of a caveman diet.
There may be a specialist who can diagnose it, but the trick is figuring out which kind of specialist. I think we can rule out blood sugar, can we? Then let's consider fluctuations in blood pressure or hormones. It could be an adrenalin/cortisol type issue. It also sounds like it could be an autonomic nervous system issue. But my knowledge of that is limited to being able to spell autonomic, I'm afraidI mentioned this problem to a number of doctors over the years - they just don't show any interest. My GP will just do a urine and say I'm OK. I had just almonds for lunch today (yesterday when I had an 'attack' at 5:30pm lunch was a buckwheat pancake with jam at 1:30). It's now 5:30pm and I'm fine. Almonds again tomorrow I think.
Palpitations can be checked out with an ECG test, and if that's normal and there are no other obvious issues such as medication side effects, then the doctors usually say they are anxiety related.Thanks for your interest. The first time it happened, about 15-20 years ago, I had a breakfast of two bowls of organic puffed brown rice with brown sugar and brown rice milk. 20 or 30 minutes later I walked into town (about 10 minutes) but got overcome by the shaking and sweating and had to flag down a taxi to take me home. Since then the attacks usually happen 3, 4 or 5 hours after I've eaten in either the early or late afternoon. I used to get extremely violent palpitations as a teenager - that would last about 10 minutes and my heart would feel like it's literally jumping out of my chest. I think that may be related as I don't get those any more.