Shocking!!!! GTT came back normal, but symptomatic

[Quirky]

Hi Everyone,

Finally took the plunge today, well, partially.
Instead of taking the glucose tab, I did some kind
of weird dates soup. I have serious multiple allergies,
and its the only sweet thing I could tolerate.

The calcs were based on 50 g of glucose (dates contain
32 g of glucose per 100 g. I could not take more, it made me ill.

The results came back normal!!! I can't believe this. Severe hunger pangs all the time,
cold sweats, dizzy, fainting, palpitations till I eat something sweet, and relieved
when I eat dates (high in glucose). I was told by a doc, these are typical of diabetes
or hypoglycemia.

The lab will send me the results for fasting glucose, insulin and A1c towards the end
of the week. These may be more accurate.

See below the test results. I am clueless as to what to do, I heard this can happen
in spite of being diabetic.

Similar happens to thyroid tests, sometimes hypo, sometimes subclinical hypo
other times, normal. I take no meds, instead, diet and sometimes, Ayurvedic
compounds, less toxic.

Well, I will see what the A1C, insulin and glucose test reveal, meanwhile, its
back to more reading...I wonder if results from those tests flucutate as do
other tests such as for thyroid?

Its a worry, because the symptoms are there, relieved by eating something
sweet, and still no firm diagnosis. Not sure if this is some type of false hypoglycemia
or other metabolic syndrome not yet diagnosable?

I just sent an email to the lab and said, that I thought, I took 50 g of glucose,
but it seems I took probably 40 g, hopefully they will recalculate.

Fasting glucose : 6.11 mmol/L 3.05 - 6.38

Glucose : 50 gr

GLUC 60' : 5.42 mmol/L

GLUC 120' : 5.0 mmol/L < 7.8

 

[AMBrennan]

The results came back normal!!! I can't believe this. Severe hunger pangs all the time,
cold sweats, dizzy, fainting, palpitations till I eat something sweet, and relieved
when I eat dates (high in glucose). I was told by a doc, these are typical of diabetes
or hypoglycaemia.

Well, they are symptoms of hypoglycaemia, true, but the classical symptoms of diabetes are increased thirst, increased urination, blurred vision and so on.

More specifically, the hypo symptoms are a result of adrenaline released in response to low blood sugar, so if I had to take a guess I'd say that reactive hypoglycaemia or some hormonal problem is more likely to be the cause of them than diabetes.

Edit to add: At the end of the day, it's the diabetes medication (injected insulin and drugs taken to increase insulin production) that cause hypos, not the condition itself.

 

[Quirky]

Thanks for the input.

I just sent a second email to the lab,
it seems I had about 30 g of glucose
and not 50!! I can honestly, say, that
under no terms could I take more. It made sick,
sweaty, faintlike, and very uncomfortable at 30 g

Symptoms can vary, fluctuate and some don't
have symptoms...

Perhaps the recalculation will shed more light, as well
as the AC1, and other tests.

 

[Daibell]

Hi. The symptoms you list are mostly not those for diabetic Hypergycemia i.e. high blood sugar. As AMBrennan says these should include thirst, frequent urination, blurred vision, candida prior to severe hyperglycemic symptoms which add confusion, sweating etc. Hypoglycemia has some symptoms in common but if you had Hypoglycemia without any diabetes medication you would not be diabetic.