Blood Sugar Dropping

Hi All I am having trouble with my blood sugar dropping.   Sometimes during a work out, sometimes if I get stressed out or I am rushing around and sometimes for unexplained reasons.  I would appreciate some suggestions for dealing with the problem so that I am not eating just to fix that.  It interferes with how I plan meals. Thanks in advance Madeline

I had to start replanning meals to include snacks.  That was the only fix for me.  My nutritionist liked only 3 meals aday, but after this problem happened the surgeon wanted to add three snacks.  My snacks are almost always the same and they are pretty small.  I have three apple slices and an ounce of cheese.  It just had to become apart of how I planned things out.  It solved it all.  There is a woman here who had worse hypoglycemia so if replanning isn't what you are looking for, perhaps you can talk to her

Hi, Madeline!  Sorry about that!  I, too, have that problem.  It's every day around 8:30 a.m. - 1 1/2-2 hours after breakfast and while I'm walking on the treadmill.  Fortunately, my surgeon has always wanted us to eat 6 times a day so I just have a nsa lf yogurt or a pack of pb on wheat crackers and that does the trick.  Once in a while, it'll happen in the late afternoon or the late evening - but those are rare.  If it happens then, I have an 8 oz. glass of skim milk and that seems to help.  It's undoubtedly a pain, though!!  Hope this helps a little!

Hi Madeline,

The other poster might have been referring to me.  I have severe hypoglycemia and eating hasn't fixed the problem.  If I eat only protein, I feel fine for a couple days but then get fuzzy headed due to lack of carbs.  If I add carbs, I get fuzzy headed due to wild swings in my insulin levels.  So I can't win.  My sugar is good if I don't eat at all but that doesn't work for very long. 

I'm being treated at Mayo in Rochester for this.  There is a syndome they are seeing more and more after gastric bypass that involves the pancreas beta cells increasing in mass and secreting way too much insulin inapporpriately.  It's called NIPHS.  Noninsulinoma pancreatogenous hypoglcemic syndrome.  Contact me by email at [email protected] if you would like more info on this.

 

Lyn

 

 

Madeline; Sorry you're experiencing this, too. I've been under a lot of stress the last 3 weeks and have been experiencing a similar phenomena. I drive an manual transmission car and have stalled more in the last three weeks than in the previous 19 years I've been driving. I start shaking so bad, I can't keep my left foot on the clutch at stop lights. Foot comes off the clutch, car stalls. I've always eaten a string cheese before workouts, so I haven't experienced a problem there, but especially when I have to deal with the people that are creating the stress and when I'm driving (I'm assuming because I have time to sit alone and think about the situation that's going on), I tremble uncontrolably. I saw my PCP two weeks ago and all of my lab work was good so I've been writing it off as nerves. I've also lost 5 lbs. in the last two weeks. I was already 11 lbs. below goal when I started losing again, so it's not an ideal situation. I've been adding a protein bar 30-45 minutes before I have to drive. It hasn't seemed to help much, but I'm ever hopeful. If you find out any additional information, please share it as I seem to be very much in the same boat right now.