Hello,
Thanks for your replies. I will buy a glucose meter and strips this week. My problem is that I'm producing too much insulin which is making me go RH after one hour then if my research is correct gluagon??? (Spelling) kicks in and things go back to normal. Nausea, heartburn, indigestion are the worst part.
As this is new and came on with such force, I'm going to see a pancreatic specialist to check that there's nothing else going on. bloods are good and MRI is clear but my endo can't explain why this came on so suddenly - aside the fact that weight has messed up my pancreas.
Thanks a million for standing by me. This is making me nervous and I feel overwhelmed.
Best
Alicki
Just happened to be on here as I'm not in work till later.
Correct, apart for the spelling, (lol), glucose from food, glucagon from liver, glycogen from hormonal response and insulin from pancreas.
If it was five years ago, it would have been termed 'idiopathic' RH. Because, that means 'unknown'. But they have found why it happens. It is known as post prandial RH. But we prefer RH for obvious reasons.
What can I say about the feelings you are having. Well, the anxiety and fear of the future is normal, it could also be symptomatic. My head was all over the place.
The fluctuations in blood glucose levels disrupts your body and mind so much and if you have read the list of symptoms you can get, it is a wonder how we function if we didn't treat it.
Unfortunately, you are going to go through the testing and experimenting stage.
And it's important, that you do this slowly and carefully. I found this part exciting in some way. Because, I found I could still enjoy my food but the eating will become so important that it can become a bit obsessive. In fact the first time I have eaten anything at a different place where I wasn't in control was the other weekend, that's over two years since diagnosis.
If you have read my story, my endo saved my life, I was in such a mess because of ignorance of my health care team, not many doctors know about RH.
You will get resistance to low carbing, but the thing is, low carb works, nothing else does, we've been there and done it.
My health was really bad. My endocrine system was killing me and now because of my diet, the only thing I have is RH.
My digestive system and organs were not working properly. You name it, I had it, because of the visceral fat, it was strangling my organs. I had high blood glucose levels.high BP, and so on.
We will guide you through it, that's why me and Brun, set it up, with contributions from others, we are a growing number of unique people, who are weird because we produce too much insulin.