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<blockquote data-quote="Brunneria" data-source="post: 2224676" data-attributes="member: 41816"><p>Hi and welcome [USER=520386]@Sarducar[/USER] </p><p></p><p>I have RH. Had it most of my life.</p><p>Very interested to read your perspective, mainly because the experiences you describe would be what I would experience, if I was regularly eating foods that trigger my RH (in my case, that seems to be a combo of both carbs and gluten). </p><p></p><p>The life you describe, with constant eating, snacks, drinking, catching things before the blood glucose drops, the hypos, the issues around sleep... well I consider that a kind of living hell. Been there, tried it, don’t want to go back. There are some strong parallels with type 1 diabetes and insulin use, but without the security nets of carb counting and without insulin to counter highs and provide background insulin levels. Also (of course) without several other negatives that come with T1, but are not present in RH.</p><p></p><p>I wonder if you will find controlling your RH (if that is what you have) as liberating as I did? No more aggro around sleep, hypo avoidance, the tyranny of HAVING to eat... I now eat a couple of proper meals a day and generally forget about food the rest of the time. Such a relief!</p><p></p><p>If you are as dependent on carbs and snacking as you describe, then I suggest you do a fair bit of reading around going low carb, keto flu, the symptoms of keto flu, becoming fat adapted, and so on. From what I have seen, over and over on this forum and others, the more ‘carb addicted’ we are, the more adjustment we experience when we cut them out - and the greater the benefits.</p><p></p><p>Something you may also find worthwhile to consider, is that you have years... decades? of putting your body through an endless cycle of carb fuelled blood glucose rises and drops, spikes and hypos. We are not indestructible. Sooner or later, age, lifestyle, other illnesses wear us down, and our bodies become less resilient. over production of insulin can wear out our capacity to produce more. Constant exposure to excess insulin can cause insulin resistance (which has unfortunate health consequences of its own). Regular hypos cause a cascade of reactions in the adrenal glands to produce stress hormones to counter the low bg => stress, fight or flight => knock on effects of stress.</p><p></p><p>In my case, I ended up extremely close to T2 blood glucose levels, but managed to pull back and now have my blood glucose under control. And that was with a long history of eating lower carb, behind me. If I hadn’t done that, my T2 would have arrived much earlier. my body still has a ‘hair trigger’ stress hormone reaction, and my early morning stress hormone/ dawn phenomenon bg levels are, frankly, ******.</p><p></p><p>I would urge you, whether you have RH or not, to get things under control as soon as possible, by sorting out the root cause, rather than using carbs to paper over the cracks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brunneria, post: 2224676, member: 41816"] Hi and welcome [USER=520386]@Sarducar[/USER] I have RH. Had it most of my life. Very interested to read your perspective, mainly because the experiences you describe would be what I would experience, if I was regularly eating foods that trigger my RH (in my case, that seems to be a combo of both carbs and gluten). The life you describe, with constant eating, snacks, drinking, catching things before the blood glucose drops, the hypos, the issues around sleep... well I consider that a kind of living hell. Been there, tried it, don’t want to go back. There are some strong parallels with type 1 diabetes and insulin use, but without the security nets of carb counting and without insulin to counter highs and provide background insulin levels. Also (of course) without several other negatives that come with T1, but are not present in RH. I wonder if you will find controlling your RH (if that is what you have) as liberating as I did? No more aggro around sleep, hypo avoidance, the tyranny of HAVING to eat... I now eat a couple of proper meals a day and generally forget about food the rest of the time. Such a relief! If you are as dependent on carbs and snacking as you describe, then I suggest you do a fair bit of reading around going low carb, keto flu, the symptoms of keto flu, becoming fat adapted, and so on. From what I have seen, over and over on this forum and others, the more ‘carb addicted’ we are, the more adjustment we experience when we cut them out - and the greater the benefits. Something you may also find worthwhile to consider, is that you have years... decades? of putting your body through an endless cycle of carb fuelled blood glucose rises and drops, spikes and hypos. We are not indestructible. Sooner or later, age, lifestyle, other illnesses wear us down, and our bodies become less resilient. over production of insulin can wear out our capacity to produce more. Constant exposure to excess insulin can cause insulin resistance (which has unfortunate health consequences of its own). Regular hypos cause a cascade of reactions in the adrenal glands to produce stress hormones to counter the low bg => stress, fight or flight => knock on effects of stress. In my case, I ended up extremely close to T2 blood glucose levels, but managed to pull back and now have my blood glucose under control. And that was with a long history of eating lower carb, behind me. If I hadn’t done that, my T2 would have arrived much earlier. my body still has a ‘hair trigger’ stress hormone reaction, and my early morning stress hormone/ dawn phenomenon bg levels are, frankly, ******. I would urge you, whether you have RH or not, to get things under control as soon as possible, by sorting out the root cause, rather than using carbs to paper over the cracks. [/QUOTE]
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