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<blockquote data-quote="Brunneria" data-source="post: 1930499" data-attributes="member: 41816"><p>No worries! Most doctors haven’t heard of it, so no reason why you should!</p><p></p><p>RH = reactive hypoglycaemia</p><p>It is one of the conditions that exist on the glucose dysregulation spectrum.</p><p>Basically it is where a person’s body over reacts to carb intake and instead of producing the correct amount of insulin to control blood glucose, they produce too much. An ‘overshoot’ as it were. This results in a hypo.</p><p></p><p>Rather like a T1 injecting too much insulin will result in a hypo.</p><p></p><p>Although of course there are significant differences between T1 and RH. RHers are often not diagnosed properly and may be told their symptoms are anxiety and/or depression, and medicated for that instead. They have no blood glucose monitor and get these weird hypo symptoms several hours after food. It often takes a loooong time to work out the carb-hypo relationship, and it is v difficult to get a diagnosis.</p><p></p><p>On the plus side, most RHers’ own bodies and glucagon production will eventually deal with the hypo, by dumping adrenalin and a cocktail of other stress hormones into the body. But that brings its own issues when this happens on a regular basis. Sometimes after every meal. The symptoms are often ‘diagnosed’ as panic attacks and neuroses, when in fact they are treatable hypos.</p><p></p><p>Edited for typos</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brunneria, post: 1930499, member: 41816"] No worries! Most doctors haven’t heard of it, so no reason why you should! RH = reactive hypoglycaemia It is one of the conditions that exist on the glucose dysregulation spectrum. Basically it is where a person’s body over reacts to carb intake and instead of producing the correct amount of insulin to control blood glucose, they produce too much. An ‘overshoot’ as it were. This results in a hypo. Rather like a T1 injecting too much insulin will result in a hypo. Although of course there are significant differences between T1 and RH. RHers are often not diagnosed properly and may be told their symptoms are anxiety and/or depression, and medicated for that instead. They have no blood glucose monitor and get these weird hypo symptoms several hours after food. It often takes a loooong time to work out the carb-hypo relationship, and it is v difficult to get a diagnosis. On the plus side, most RHers’ own bodies and glucagon production will eventually deal with the hypo, by dumping adrenalin and a cocktail of other stress hormones into the body. But that brings its own issues when this happens on a regular basis. Sometimes after every meal. The symptoms are often ‘diagnosed’ as panic attacks and neuroses, when in fact they are treatable hypos. Edited for typos [/QUOTE]
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