Falls during hypos

Which condition should the health profession check for exactly. Are you talking about RH.

I went through a long period of passing out, have fallen down stairs, smacked my head lots of times on wooden floor. It had nothing to do with my diabetes, I had loads of tests, brain and heart etc. People fall, elderly people with a uti can fall or have symptoms of dementia, there is just so many reasons it would stretch the NHS to behind breaking point if they tested everyone with blood sugar problems to check if they are at risk of falling

Squire Fulwood said:

Which condition should the health profession check for exactly. Are you talking about RH.

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Yes! Derek among other conditions has RH!

I believe he is thinking that RH is more predominantly than previously thought.

I have the same thoughts when I read posters who have the same symptoms and fluctuations in their blood glucose levels.
I do believe that it is more prevalent in women, in pregnancy and before leading to prediabetes and diabetes especially T2.
The prognosis of RH is similar in its make up to T2. Especially when caused by hyperinsulinaemia and hyperglycaemia and insulin resistance.
The number of T2s that have false hypos and actually have hypos.
The list is long concerning the number of threads that have either Hypoglycaemia and symptoms.
There is a child form of hypoglycaemia is common and allegedly they grow out of it!

In my experience not many doctors have a clue about Hypoglycaemia in its many forms and like me misdiagnosed T2! Not that I blame them because if they haven't been trained to recognise the symptoms how can they know what is actually happening???

The western high carb low fat diet is bound to increase metabolic conditions such as RH! The problem lies in availability of diagnostic specialists in them, even at hospital consultancy and endocrinologists.
These rare conditions are usually missed and the horror stories of people having brain function problems increase because of low blood glucose levels and the imbalance of hormones.

lindisfel said:

Hi, There is much concern about falls in the medical profession, particularly in the elderly who have multiple health anomalies. Eg. they may be on an anticoagulant! I had several falls in the year before I stopped my R.H. by lchf. I am wondering if the profession
should check for this condition with patients more because it could be a tad more common than some medics think.
In my case during one of three falls I managed to cause an hernia.
regards
Derek

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Yes, again, in my experience of brain function problems, I do believe that the combination of each of our symptoms would almost certainly cause uncertain in your balance, I still have the odd dizzy spells, particularly bending down to pick things up.
And again Derek, I do think it is more common! Even though we are unique!

lindisfel said:

Awareness on the part of the medical profession during diabetic reviews would be quite simple. Just a few questions and then using the standard timed test is much less costly than the results of falls due to hypos. After all I'm not a medic but diagnosed my own R.H.! Derek

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Not only that, but a test centred on how insulin response is affecting blood glucose levels and how hyperinsulinaemia is the precursor to a lot of metabolic conditions.

lindisfel said:

Thanks Nolad,
I suppose the problem is the medical profession has no treatment for R.H. other than a lot of little meals!
atb
Derek

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I have recently discovered that may not be the case!
Of course, there is no cure.
The best treatment is not to stimulate your pancreas to produce more insulin.

I am of course fasting, intermittently. I am also as you know, ultra low carbing, as little as possible, and I have eaten my breakfast and not ate till tea time. Which is roughly seven to eight hours and as yet had no ill effect. I stay in ketosis and my blood glucose levels go nowhere!
I have also tried this whilst working and again no alteration to being in ketosis!
So I'm going to keep doing this as I don't seem to have any ill effects from missing meals as long as I don't trigger a hyper!
Weird eh?
Steak and mushrooms tonight!
Hope you are keeping well, mate.
I'm really good, despite the cold weather!
Best wishes!