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<blockquote data-quote="Lamont D" data-source="post: 2183726" data-attributes="member: 85785"><p>I was diagnosed as RH in 2013, I had been struggling with so called healthy foods, mainly carbs! I had never heard of such a thing! I was diagnosed prediabetic, then in 2009, T2!</p><p>I had similar symptoms as yours, the more healthy carbs I had, I still felt awful.</p><p>I kept putting on weight, but my health was getting worse!</p><p></p><p>I had anxiety, anger, rage, hunger, craving, constant headache, blurred vision and a multiple list of other symptoms.</p><p></p><p>I was advised to eat a lot of small meals throughout the day, small meals with some complex carbs, but that did nothing but make it worse.</p><p></p><p>You see, RH is a reaction to food, mainly carbs and sugar.</p><p>Depending on how much your intolerance to these foods, is the severity in which your blood glucose levels bounce up and down all day. The severity of your symptoms, the worse it makes you feel.</p><p></p><p>The normal blood sugar levels is probably your fasting levels first thing in the morning or pre oral glucose tolerance test if you have fasted. This test is usually more than four hours, it records your blood glucose levels from pre test, every fifteen or thirty minutes, till either you go hypo or not! RH ers, if the diagnosis is correct will go hypo. This is because of an overshoot of insulin, when too much glucose, too quickly triggers the insulin and doesn't stop. Your c-peptide and insulin levels should have been taken during the eOGTT!</p><p></p><p>The necessity of avoiding the trigger and hypos, is avoiding those carbs.</p><p>Only by stopping the rollercoaster ride of fluctuating blood sugar levels, can you get your health back, it's not easy, it's a life changing experience.</p><p>You have to discover what foods you are intolerant to. I am lactose intolerant, wheat and grain intolerant, all sugars, starchy vegetables. So no bread, spuds, cheese and so on.</p><p></p><p>A food diary will be a great way of recording your blood sugar levels, it will show you what certain foods do to your blood sugar levels.</p><p></p><p>Until I realised that it was carbs that was causing the reaction, I was advised by my doctors, dietician and even my specialist endocrinologist, that it was necessary to eat carbs because it would effect my brain.</p><p>It was so wrong, that was because they really didn't understand the condition. There has been little or no research on the condition or how to treat it successfully over a long period of time. Most doctors, dieticians have never heard of RH!</p><p></p><p>There has already been some great suggestions already posted, the reactive hypoglycaemia forum is got some great information about how you can gain some control, once you have control, the symptoms ease, the hypos stop.</p><p></p><p>It will take time, there is no cure, no magic pill, it's all about food!</p><p></p><p>Do read about a low carb diet, fats and of course protein. </p><p>I have stopped having hypos, I got my life back because of very low carb dietary changes. No symptoms, great energy levels and am fit and healthy.</p><p></p><p>Best wishes</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lamont D, post: 2183726, member: 85785"] I was diagnosed as RH in 2013, I had been struggling with so called healthy foods, mainly carbs! I had never heard of such a thing! I was diagnosed prediabetic, then in 2009, T2! I had similar symptoms as yours, the more healthy carbs I had, I still felt awful. I kept putting on weight, but my health was getting worse! I had anxiety, anger, rage, hunger, craving, constant headache, blurred vision and a multiple list of other symptoms. I was advised to eat a lot of small meals throughout the day, small meals with some complex carbs, but that did nothing but make it worse. You see, RH is a reaction to food, mainly carbs and sugar. Depending on how much your intolerance to these foods, is the severity in which your blood glucose levels bounce up and down all day. The severity of your symptoms, the worse it makes you feel. The normal blood sugar levels is probably your fasting levels first thing in the morning or pre oral glucose tolerance test if you have fasted. This test is usually more than four hours, it records your blood glucose levels from pre test, every fifteen or thirty minutes, till either you go hypo or not! RH ers, if the diagnosis is correct will go hypo. This is because of an overshoot of insulin, when too much glucose, too quickly triggers the insulin and doesn't stop. Your c-peptide and insulin levels should have been taken during the eOGTT! The necessity of avoiding the trigger and hypos, is avoiding those carbs. Only by stopping the rollercoaster ride of fluctuating blood sugar levels, can you get your health back, it's not easy, it's a life changing experience. You have to discover what foods you are intolerant to. I am lactose intolerant, wheat and grain intolerant, all sugars, starchy vegetables. So no bread, spuds, cheese and so on. A food diary will be a great way of recording your blood sugar levels, it will show you what certain foods do to your blood sugar levels. Until I realised that it was carbs that was causing the reaction, I was advised by my doctors, dietician and even my specialist endocrinologist, that it was necessary to eat carbs because it would effect my brain. It was so wrong, that was because they really didn't understand the condition. There has been little or no research on the condition or how to treat it successfully over a long period of time. Most doctors, dieticians have never heard of RH! There has already been some great suggestions already posted, the reactive hypoglycaemia forum is got some great information about how you can gain some control, once you have control, the symptoms ease, the hypos stop. It will take time, there is no cure, no magic pill, it's all about food! Do read about a low carb diet, fats and of course protein. I have stopped having hypos, I got my life back because of very low carb dietary changes. No symptoms, great energy levels and am fit and healthy. Best wishes [/QUOTE]
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