Help regarding diagnosis

[MAG007]

Dear forum,

I am newbie and I need desperate help. I used cyproflexin for my testical infection for 4 days in dec 2019. I had panic attack where my heart become out of control for 5mins. I left this medicine despite nhs said to use it and the attack might be related to tedtical pain.

I have developed some symptoms after this incident. I have symptoms similar to idiopathic postpandrial syndrome. My OGTT test was 94 after 5 hrs. My hba1c was 5.3 and fasting glucose 105, 120 in two blood samples from hospital. My doctor in another county diagnosed me with reactive hypoglycemia.

Now, from last 4 months, I am suffering various attacks of IPS which include anxiety (sometime, I cant go out due to this fear), bad mood, carb intolerance, brain fog (which improve in second half), light headedness in the mornings (which also improves on second half), lack of focus., ear ringing, eye floater, and if I eat some carb (even complex ones, say 2 piece of bread, it gives numbness of hands and shivering of thighs). I post 8 kg in 3 months, but it is stable now.

My doctor recommended to use low gi and balances diet, which I am using from last two months, with little improvement in symptoms.

I took 2 months sick leave from office and then joined office back. I had hard time as I had lack of focus, light headedness, and dizzy spells at times, and sometime small generalised anxiety feelings.


I fear how can I cope with these symptoms ? Can you pl help how this is related to blood glucose as usually in anxiety attacks, if I ate something they settle. I'd I ate smaller meals of low gi diet, that helps me but if I happen to eat bigger that gives anxiety attack.

Can you pls help me how it is related to blood sugar and how can I treat it? This is making my life really hard in every sense, including office, social, and family.

Have a nice day everyone

Mag

 

[JoKalsbeek]

https://www.healthline.com/health/idiopathic-postprandial-syndrome#symptoms A lot of what you mention is listed here, with the IPS you brought up, and yeah... Fluctuations in blood glucose can make you anxious, make your heart race and whatnot. Forget low GI. GI's more an issue for T1's who need to know how to inject their insulin (in one go, split dose etc). For issues like yours, or RH, or T2 even, a low carb diet makes more sense. If you get used to low to no carbs, the anxiety will ease off and the symptoms'll abate. I can't give medical advice on here, I'm just a T2. But you might want to have a read here:
https://josekalsbeek.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-nutritional-thingy.html

Good luck!
Jo
Edited to correct the link

 

[Lamont D]

Dear forum,

I am newbie and I need desperate help. I used cyproflexin for my testical infection for 4 days in dec 2019. I had panic attack where my heart become out of control for 5mins. I left this medicine despite nhs said to use it and the attack might be related to tedtical pain.

I have developed some symptoms after this incident. I have symptoms similar to idiopathic postpandrial syndrome. My OGTT test was 94 after 5 hrs. My hba1c was 5.3 and fasting glucose 105, 120 in two blood samples from hospital. My doctor in another county diagnosed me with reactive hypoglycemia.

Now, from last 4 months, I am suffering various attacks of IPS which include anxiety (sometime, I cant go out due to this fear), bad mood, carb intolerance, brain fog (which improve in second half), light headedness in the mornings (which also improves on second half), lack of focus., ear ringing, eye floater, and if I eat some carb (even complex ones, say 2 piece of bread, it gives numbness of hands and shivering of thighs). I post 8 kg in 3 months, but it is stable now.

My doctor recommended to use low gi and balances diet, which I am using from last two months, with little improvement in symptoms.

I took 2 months sick leave from office and then joined office back. I had hard time as I had lack of focus, light headedness, and dizzy spells at times, and sometime small generalised anxiety feelings.


I fear how can I cope with these symptoms ? Can you pl help how this is related to blood glucose as usually in anxiety attacks, if I ate something they settle. I'd I ate smaller meals of low gi diet, that helps me but if I happen to eat bigger that gives anxiety attack.

Can you pls help me how it is related to blood sugar and how can I treat it? This is making my life really hard in every sense, including office, social, and family.

Have a nice day everyone

Mag

Hi and welcome to the forum.
I have reactive hypoglycaemia, and I have heard of idiopathic postprandial syndrome.
Both have very similar symptoms but different outcomes.
All the symptoms you are having and more, are typical reactive hypoglycaemia, but if you don't get the hypos, then that is the syndrome.
We have our own forum, there is a lot of information on Reactive Hypoglycaemia. There is a thread in the forum somewhere titled idiopathic post prandial syndrome, that I started when I was discovering papers and research on Reactive Hypoglycaemia.

If you have either of the conditions, then dietary intake is really important.
You have received the usual medical advice about diet from your doctors, which is the usual eat complex carbs, eat low GI, eat often and so on.
The problem with both conditions is that you are carb intolerant. Your body has a reaction to carbs which is because their is an imbalance in how your insulin deals with the glucose derived from carbs. After carbs your body has firstly too much glucose, then because of what is known as an overshoot, too much insulin, which drives down blood glucose levels.
This does cause anxiety, I know what that feels like. I suffered from anxiety until I discovered the link between fluctuations in blood glucose levels and the symptoms I was getting including anxiety.

Until I found out what foods where causing the symptoms, I didn't have a clue what was happening. So I used a blood glucose monitor to see what was happening, the answer was it was any carbs, regardless of how low GI they were they still triggered the the reaction and the symptoms.
So after much trial and error, I decided to eat to my meter, and avoid any food that caused the symptoms. This worked!

So, for the last six years, I have eaten a Keto diet and the majority of symptoms have gone, I don't have the hypos and I have recovered my health, I work full time, I have really good control.

Do read the threads on our forum.

Best wishes