Hypoglycemia & Pituitary tumor

Hi All, Anyone develop hypoglycemia after 2 years out? My stoma is stretched and I know it is part of the problem.  My Surgeon's office now has me testing for hypoglycemia.  I know that this has been happening for a while as when I eat a snack or something I feel better. I also have been diagnosed with a pituitary tumor and was wondering if anyone has had weight gain with this as well? Any suggestions or thoughts would be appreciated. Deanne

Has your surgeon suggested a solution for your stretched stoma?

Yes, She has suggested putting on a lap band over the RNY to fix the problem.  She sure isn't in a hurry to fix it though.  She has been stalling big time. Deanne

Oh my.... I am 2 yrs out on the 16th of this month and I have fainted 4 times this year and my blood sugars were in the 40`s the doc said i had hypoglycemia,  without examing me !!!       so he sent me to am enderurolist(i cant spell it ). The specialist isnt sure that is the problem I am going in for nucular stress test on my heart and more blood work for this hypoglycemia????? Please let me know your systoms?? mine is  1. shakey 2. aniexty 3. fainty 4. passing out 5. crying 6. nervous 7. not wanting to be around others 8. hungry for sugar  9. hot feeeling keep in touch and best of luck how do you know you stretched your stoma???????? janice [email protected]

Hi I just have a series of tests and I am hypoglycemic with a lap band. I am totally disgusted . I had this surgery to prevent my developing diabetes and hear I am shaky and feeling lousy almost everyday. I had my surgery 8/23/05 and everything was going well lost 60 lbs and I only feel good when I eat!.  Let me know how it turns out.

Sorry to hear this.....I am really upset about this new problem after everything weve gone thru now another problem..Its not fun when your hypoglycemic........janice

My finace has had, what is called in the post-bariatric popultation, reactive hypoglycemia for several years.  I had surgery 16 months ago and have had about 5 attacks in the last couple of months.  They are very scarey and very dangerous, and so I have been looking on-line quite a bit.  THis article has some interesting info about the potential causes in bariatric patients: http://www.joslin.org/1083_3059.asp From what I have read, diet (basically the diet we have been told to eat - high protein, low carbs) can remedy most reactive hypoglycemia.  although the article above talks about a few people for which that didn't work and reasons why that may have been the case.  Here is another that talks about the importance of vitamin levels on our ability to process insulin: http://www.arltma.com/HypoDysDiaDoc.htm For some reason, my dr. did not order, or the lab missed the order for, an iron test when I got my labs done in oct.  I was chewing on ice constantly, mentioned it to a friend, and she said I probably had low iron.  I did.  I also started having night sweats sometime around Dec and poor body temp regulation in general (always cold during the day, go to bed freezing and wake up in the middle of the night sweating like crazy).   Body temp reg has to do with iron.    So for me, I am thinking the hypoglycemia has to do with low iron.  Also, I am watching what I eat...no simple sugars, alcohol, etc. and I am hoping this will help.    I have been wondering if people have been assuming they are just having a dumping syndrome when in reality they are having a hypoglycemia attack (the symptoms are similar).  I am sure someone who thinks they are dumping is not about to ingest sugar, which you need to do to correct hypoglycemia) so I wonder if they are not fixing the attack immediately and how dangerous this is, what kind of problems it has caused, in our population.    I would be intersted in hearing others experiences. Lisa  

I'm just a few weeks short of 5 years out.  Lost 110 pounds, got to goal weight, felt great.  Ran smack into menopause and gained 25 pounds in 5 months, which has now climbed to +40 pounds.  Have been having hypoglycemia problems for maybe 18 months, but did not have diabetes or blood sugar problems at my highest preop weight.  The way mine seems to occur is if I eat something with too much sugar, and though I'm usually pretty careful about knowing that 3-4 bites of something sweet is ok, but 5-6 isn't, I will usually dump and I know that feeling.  Then, about an hour after dumping, which is caused by the sugars dumping too fast into the digestive tract and into the blood stream, my sugar will plummet, causing me to be lightheaded, shaky, nervous.  Happened in a grocery store once, was trying to shop and couldn't read any of the packaging, the words and letters just didn't make sense.  I staggered (probably looked drunk) to the candy area and had a couple of small candy bars, which seemed to reverse it.   That was the worst attack I can remember.  My attacks actually can also be caused by too much carbs, as in pancakes with sugar-free syrup, or really greasy food.  With the grocery store incident, I had had an egg, piece of bacon and toast for breakfast at a greasy spoon place that my family frequents every Saturday morning.  I've had more than one reaction after eating there, so I've since decided to eat before going and just enjoy the company.   Anyway, I've done a little reading and attended an informational seminar on StomaphyX, which one of the bariatric surgeons (not mine) in the area is going to start performing.  I'm considering this for 2 reasons -  hopefully to help me lose some or all of the 40 pounds I've regained, and also because it seems to have the effect of improving or curing reactive hypoglycemia in some patients.  Still just considering it, but even if it helped with just the hypoglycemia, it might be worh it.  Anyone have any experience with StomaphyX helping hypoglycemia?  Thanks!

Well, I am 4 years post RNY surgery, lost 100 pounds and have kept all but 20 pounds of that off.  Over the weekend, while at work on a conversion, I all at once got extremely sweaty - sweat dripping off of me - and then became so very confused.  I did not understand what was on the computer screen or the papers in front of me.  Was dizzy, felt like I was losing consciousness.  I walked over to a co-worker's desk and he called paramedics.  My sugars were down to 64, they fed me a toothpaste type tube of some type of sugar and my sugars came up again.  By the time I got to the ER, my sugars were down again.  They took me right into the ER, and fed me a glass of OJ.  That seems to help.  They did a CAT scan and blood work on me.  I thought they'd send me home with instructions to see my regular doc, but they wanted to admit me.  They said that low blood sugars are usually a result of something else.  They did a workup for a stroke.  I had an abdominal ultrasound, a cardiac echo, brain MRI and carotid echo - all coming back negative.  I am assuming I have hypoglycemia, but do not know.  Started reading information about reactive hypoglycemia... and it soulds plausible.  I have never really had a problem with sugar.  I couldn't eat any first thing in the am, but as long as I had other things in my stomach, I could eat smaller amounts of sugar.  I am guessing I need to cut them out.  I just recently started drinking diet-dr-pepper again after not drinking pop for 4 years.  Maybe I should stop.  Maybe the fake sugar fakes out the insulin makers.  It was a very scary situation.  All the stroke tests came back negative.   Sue

I am almost 3 yrs out and have been diagnosed with hypoglycemia starting at about 1 year ago.  I passed out behind the wheel of my car at the dog park and ended up in the hospital for a few days.  Passed out about 3 months ago but was just hanging out at home so no hospital visit.  2 weekends ago, I passed out while playing outside with the dog and fell face first onto the concrete.  Ended up with 26 stitches on my browbone, a hugely swollen eye and a massively scraped up left side of my face (which is still in the process of healing, and I had a job interview last week that couldn't be postponed!).

Anybody else out there have success with diet modification?

Thanks!
-Heather