Hi
@robertbanking and I hope you are not too tired from shopping, and this will come in handgun the future, when you decide and discover which food you can tolerate and not spend money on junk food. Ha! My grandsons going back to school tomorrow after isolation.
Thank you very much for your response Lamont, i truly appreciate your reply.
I apologise for the delay in my response, sadly a relative of mine got Coronavirus so i had to help them with their shopping while they self isolated.
Its very interesting to hear you intermittent fast i think that is a very clever idea. I kindly wondered though how come many people can live to 60 with poor diets, drinking alcohol and many sweet snacks and never get low blood sugar symptoms please?
All my blood tests including HbA1c and Insulin fasting and after sugar have been normal. I have never had any stomach surgery, Do you have any thoughts please on what may be different in my body to cause these symptoms? What would a cure look like for this condition please obviously its a rare condition and i appreciate its underfunded and not much is known about it.
Thank you very much for your responses Lamont, you are a true gentleman, i really appreciate it. Enjoy the rest of the week.
I have wrote about my IF before, I have named it, the idiot diet!
It's easy, hence the name. But the basic reason is to limit my concern over food, due to the limitations of what I allow myself, I could actually keep control. When in my mad testing phase and recording everything, the amount of details, writing testing every few hours day in, day out, and my endo would suggest something different, or ask me to trial, different timings, fasting different times, eating small meals at different intervals and so on.
After all this, my thought process realised that all this was meal organisation. And regardless of time scale and that I had become brainwashed into thinking had to eat three meals a day, and was back to breakfast, lunch, dinner and even supper, and I was challenging my body to be healthy again by following rules, which I knew was counterproductive to how RH is treated by food limitations and discoveries such as my body is better and healthier on a daily basis, not eating at all.
Obviously, I need to eat sometimes even if it is once a day, just to get enough nourishment to keep me healthy. Also, because of all the discoveries I had found out inspired me to try something outside the box.
And after weighing up the possibilities, this was my plan, my treatment, my lifstyle, my likes, my tastes, when I want, how I want and cooked the way I want, portion control, carb free, or my favourite, something akin to gammon, eggs, mushroom, onions and tomatoes fried in a small amount of goose or duck fat, you could use coconut oil or 100% virgin olive oil. But not vegetable oil!
Again, my diet, is my diet, designed for me, not you!
But that doesn't mean, you can't have something similar suited to your lifestyle. Because what might work for me, might not work for you and vice versa.
What is different, is like saying your fingerprints are similar to mine.
How you got here, what you eat, where you live and so on, your gut biotics contain millions of good and bad bacterium which is being helpful or not to process your intake, the hormonal response is different in how much insulin you have for the initial insulin response, how much insulin is overproduced, the speed of the hyper, the spike, the overshoot, the hypo and how low the hypo goes. In that respect, we are all different.
And the science of how your brain gut trigger, and the brain organise the hormones even before you eat, insulin resistance, can be a major factor or any other endocrine conditions you may know about or not!
I'm sorry, but there is no cure, but as you have read, control and knowledge is key to a healthy future.
But, when first diagnosed and my endocrinologist had a study of all things RH, he knew about the gliptin, because of diabetes. And put together a study, with the two patients around here he had under his purview, and I and a woman with similar symptoms with her RH. So he ran a series of tests, initially 50 mg of the gliptin which is used for T2, because it increases the initial response of insulin, to offset insulin resistance and low insulin during digestion.
However, it reduced the hyper which reduced the overshoot, but it didn't stop the hypo. And the hypo
wasn't as bad. And then I was given 100mg. Not much difference in the oucome.
I will finish by giving an opinion.
Due to my experience, results and my health, I would advise a course of action, that suits you, that eliminates the carbs and sugars that trigger the symptoms and hypo, to prevent hypos and diminish symptoms by control and knowledge.
Good luck with all that, I have not had the complete success that comes across. But I have had periods where I can safely say, that I have it where I want it, and intermittent fasting is a huge part of my life.
And if you can't get the control, , a gliptin .might help get some control.
And don't call me a gentleman, I worked for a living!!!!!