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A newbie question... Possibly?

Nicola_F

Nicola_F

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Hi all,
I'm new to the forums though for the past six months or so have been lurking reading through the various posts. I'm a career for a woman with various problems, one of which is her unstable diabetes, which thankfully she is now getting seen to at Cambridge. my question though relates to some one else who keeps having hypos , the thing is she does not have diabetes, yet she feels and goes the same way as the woman I care for when she is hypo'ing. Some months back she had an IGF-1 test that came back borderline or just below, but the doctor she saw, said because it didn't relate specifically to the reason she was seeing him, he couldn't treat her, which is fair enough. Any other diabetic blood test has come back negative, yet her blood BG readings, which I did in the last two episodes has read 1.8l and 2.3. The other thing is that she doesn't have high blood readings, the highest I have ever seen her reading is 10.1 but usually they are around 6.8 or 7.1. Its taken her about ten years to seek any help regarding this as a child she was so politely told once that it was in her mind and even today she still is worried about wasting doctors and such time. Anyone out there that can help, offer advice and know something similar? many thanks
 
I'd go to a new Dr. it's a known medical condition. is it the reactive hypo a few hours after a meal type?
For home treatment, a change of diet is recommended to a lower carb, it will help because it won't trigger the pancreas reaction, 3 smaller meals and 3 bigger snacks. spreading the carbs over the meals, don't have one carb heavy.
moderate carb, moderate fat and normal protein or less starchy veg & grain and add an extra knob of butter. the fat makes up for the lost carb
http://www.dietdoctor.com/lchf
 
Ask for an oral glucose tolerance test. I had unexplained hypos for about 30 years and the only way to control them was to eat myself to obesity . I had loads of tests including C peptides and it was only when I had the glucose test I was diagnosed as diabetic . I had obviously been spiking then dropping.


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I had this for years. No doctor ever took it seriously.

For me, it has taken about 30 years to progress from recurring hypoglycaemia (which you have described), then to prediabetes, then to type 2 diabetes.

If I could do it all again, I would have adopted the low carb healthy fat (LCHF) diet in my teens. I would have been slimmer, healthier and happier for the last few decades!

I STRONGLY urge your friend to read as much as they possibly can about how and why the body produces insulin, the effects of too much insulin, hypoglycaemia, reactive hypoglycaemia and insulin resistence.

If they would like to email me here, they are welcome. I'm happy to answer any questions.

Trial and error has taught me that the only way I can keep stable blood glucose, avoiding both highs and lows is to eat low carb. I cannot encourage this strongly enough.
 
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I agree. I was continuously told to adopt a low fat high carb diet and now at the age if 57 I realise it was totally wrong. The first time I went to see a specialist I was told I was simply allergic to low calorie diets and to always eat starchy carbohydrates with every meal. I was told the lettuce us a depressant and should not be eaten without bread or potato as it alters a chemical in your brain! So after years of very low fat earning I still developed heart disease and now they are saying it was the carbs that could have caused it .


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Many thanks for your replies, my friend has read through all of them, she is going to have a word with her doctor and see if it could be related to the fact that no matter what she eats, she barely puts any weight on and has been like that for at least as long as I have known her which is probably twenty years lol. But again many thanks, I think over the next few days or so we'll also spend some time reading up on the various bits that were mentioned
 
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