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Low Glucose Question

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rokas123

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Type of diabetes
Reactive hypoglycemia
Treatment type
I do not have diabetes
Hello im a 23 years old guy. I was working as truck driver and living ot wery healthy life and i regret it.( i wasnt doing drugs or too much alcohol). I came back from trip and got catched a flu. After i healed it i started feeling no energy and having strange nightime panic attacks. Btw i hawe had food cravings at night last 2 years. So after this strange panic attacs and all day and no energy and feeling like im goong too pass out and extreme mood swings and brain fogs i decided to make a change. I started eating healthy, quited smoking. My health still was getting wery bad. One night when i had panic attack i had strange craving for sugar. I ate snickers bar and felt normal.. I went to doctors then. I did like 20 test on diseases but they coulndt find anything.. Then i was thinking maby its just a deppresion i was living with this 2 months after that eating sugar everywhere i go like maniac... My grandmother hawe diabetes and i can catch my blood sugars 2.5 3.3 allot of the time. I readed allot on internet how to fight it i need to eat low gi foods and sugar when attack happens but the more i live the more no energy and sad i get(cant go to work becouse of this, and im not a lazy kid i want to work even i hawe money). i started to disconnect from my frends becouse most of the time i hawe crazy brain fogs. Yestarday i went to doctor again. And tjey did 2 hour glucose test. i drinked glucose on empty stomach. before i drinked my blood sugar was 3.0 and after 2 hours it dropped too a 2.3. And on 2.3 i was feeling like im feeling most of the time and im used to it. Becouse i was thinking its a deppresion but. its not.
So my question is.... is it diabetes and i will not. be able to concentrate and hawe this brain fog. all my life. or its just some. kind. of. insulin tolerance thst possible. to heal? im really scared i miss. my job soo much want. my life back :((
 
rokas123 said:
Yestarday i went to doctor again. And tjey did 2 hour glucose test. i drinked glucose on empty stomach. before i drinked my blood sugar was 3.0 and after 2 hours it dropped too a 2.3. And on 2.3

So my question is.... is it diabetes and i will not. be able to concentrate and hawe this brain fog. all my life. or its just some. kind. of. insulin tolerance thst possible. to heal? im really scared i miss. my job soo much want. my life back :((
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Hi @rokas123 and welcome to the forum. I think you should ask your doctor that question. Do you have an appointment to discuss the test results with him/her?
 
It sounds like you are producing too much insulin rather than too little or it may be something else entirely but you need some different blood tests to sort out what the problem ts. You don't say where you live but further tests would be free on the NHS if you live in the UK. It is even possible that the "flu" was not really the flu but some other virus or bug you picked up on your trip especially if that was out of the UK. Do go back to your doctor as you urgently need to get sorted so you can feel better and start work again. Good luck and let us know how you get on.
 
rokas123 said:
Hello im a 23 years old guy. I was working as truck driver and living ot wery healthy life and i regret it.( i wasnt doing drugs or too much alcohol). I came back from trip and got catched a flu. After i healed it i started feeling no energy and having strange nightime panic attacks. Btw i hawe had food cravings at night last 2 years. So after this strange panic attacs and all day and no energy and feeling like im goong too pass out and extreme mood swings and brain fogs i decided to make a change. I started eating healthy, quited smoking. My health still was getting wery bad. One night when i had panic attack i had strange craving for sugar. I ate snickers bar and felt normal.. I went to doctors then. I did like 20 test on diseases but they coulndt find anything.. Then i was thinking maby its just a deppresion i was living with this 2 months after that eating sugar everywhere i go like maniac... My grandmother hawe diabetes and i can catch my blood sugars 2.5 3.3 allot of the time. I readed allot on internet how to fight it i need to eat low gi foods and sugar when attack happens but the more i live the more no energy and sad i get(cant go to work becouse of this, and im not a lazy kid i want to work even i hawe money). i started to disconnect from my frends becouse most of the time i hawe crazy brain fogs. Yestarday i went to doctor again. And tjey did 2 hour glucose test. i drinked glucose on empty stomach. before i drinked my blood sugar was 3.0 and after 2 hours it dropped too a 2.3. And on 2.3 i was feeling like im feeling most of the time and im used to it. Becouse i was thinking its a deppresion but. its not.
So my question is.... is it diabetes and i will not. be able to concentrate and hawe this brain fog. all my life. or its just some. kind. of. insulin tolerance thst possible. to heal? im really scared i miss. my job soo much want. my life back :((
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If your GP can´t help you , You should ask to be sent to a specialist, you can´t go on like you are doing now , your quality of life is ruined, and you are so young still, ask him if your pancreas could be producing too much insulin , ask him if he think it could be a cyst on your pancreas forcing it to produce too much insulin all the time ? don´t accept him rejecting you, say to him it is about you having a life at all... you truely need some doctor that take you serious now.. along with that try to find some slow realease carb-foods that you like and try to eat some every 2-3 hours..to try to at least keep your blood glucose up.. and at the end of these meals finish with a little amount of faster carbs.
also ask for a test to see if your metabolism is too high if it could be hyperthyroidism

https://www.livestrong.com/article/331564-list-of-slow-burning-carbs/

https://livinglovecommunity.com/201...coaster-treatments-for-reactive-hypoglycemia/
 
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by the way also make sure you eat enough proteins, a young man like you would probably need around 80 grams of pure protein in a day, 1 egg is only aroung 7 grams of protein, meat, fish and legumes and cheese is very high in proteins and eggs of cause
 
Was there any follow up to your glucose test?

You need to be referred to a specialist endocrinologist.

It is not diabetes. But could be another condition that you have too much insulin circulating.

you are having episodes if hypoglycaemia, but what is causing it, only tests can diagnose you.

Best wishes
 
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