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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Starke" data-source="post: 2296967" data-attributes="member: 527393">Dear Lamont,I am so sorry to hear about you losing your job. And about the curve balls coming your way! My husband has mentioned to me that there is an emotional factor. He says a lot of people develop RH because of an emotional impact. For example, his friend, who is a biochemist, developed it one year before she got divorced. As soon as she managed to get the divorce, she was eating everything within a month: sugars, carbs, dessert etc. Only Swiss chard sent her on a crash. I know that during my good interval, where I could eat everything, albeit, outweighing dessert and carbs with protein and fat, I did a lot of inner work pertaining what I feel nourishes me in life and the sweetness in life... taking Louis Hayes concept that every “disease” has an emotional lesson, and if we learn the lesson, the cure happens or, at least, is more accesible.Certainly, with with so much uncertainty, and economic and social upheaval, I have found I had to dig my heels in to access sweetness and nourishment. And my blood sugar went really nuts for awhile there. I have been using a breathing app which during the toughest moments, I really enjoyed.  I’ll see if I can post a link here. I’m not saying that I think my RH (or anyone’s) is purely emotional. There’s definitely a chemical component. But what controls the chemistry of my body...?   Well, as the doctors can’t, the job is left up to me, by any way I can... to alter processes in my organism.QUOTE="Lamont D, post: 2295422, member: 85785"]Hi [USER=527393]@Starke[/USER],Thanks for the backup, I need every bit of it!I have now been diagnosed with depression and anxiety, all because of the lockdown and losing my job, which was unbelievable and I found I just couldn't cope with facing life. I am not good. I have already had counselling and have been put on tablets.It is great that someone else who has the condition has posted on here. You can discuss about how you got here, the battles you had to endure, the doctors, your advice from them and what you have discovered. You never know there should be more people with the condition coming on here.With my Hypoglycaemia I am able to fast, a lot! I have found it better not to eat.I only use a window of six hours during afternoon and evening, where I have a couple of meals.If I was you, I would be careful about noodles and any grains. I have found regardless of being complex carbs they still trigger the reaction. Unless you have found them o.k.....I do believe and a lot of information I have read on our conditions that the gut biotic has a lot to do with how our endocrine system has altered over time, so that we became intolerant due to the imbalance in our hormonal response to carbs and sugar.I myself had a bacterial infection called heliocobacter pylori and the antibiotics that solved the infection could be the cause. I can't confirm this but it is a hypothesis that my endocrinologist has not dismissed.I cannot think of any other situation in my medical history, that could have done this.What tests have you had for diagnosis?Best wishes, take care, stay safe.</blockquote>In regards to what tests I have had done: well my father, brother, uncle and husband are all doctors. Only my husband, who also suffers from reactive hypoglycemia, have supported me. The rest, as they haven’t studied it, don’t  believe it exists or simply aren’t interested. The endocrinologist was too afraid of me dropping dead in her office to administer  me the glucose test.  She admitted to me, when I pressed her, that she had experience with RH, but that controlling diet was the only thing of which she knew. She offered me metformin and acarbose, if I wanted them, but added that she didn’t recommend either  as I wasn’t a traditional candidate. I have no pancreas tumour, no stomach surgery, no thyroid issues... all blood work normal etc.I was vegan for many years. And have met other vegetarians who have developed RH. In answer to your sage advice about being wary of carbs and grains... whole, raw, thick cut oats are the only ones that seem to work for my husband or me. He can eat a cup of them and not eat for another 10 hours! Give him a molecule of tomato, or a grain of rice  and he’s flat on his back...immediately, even before swallowing it. And his sugar doesn’t go back up.[/QUOTE]

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