Fri, Jan-02-15, 14:50
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Plan: Atkins, Newcastle
Stats: 260/221.8/165
BF:Highest weight 260
Progress: 40%
Location: Northern California
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Originally Posted by coachjeff
I think there's a lot of truth to that notion. I used to, and still get, "hypoglycemia" attacks if I eat a high carb meal. Especially if it's Italian bread at an Italian restaurant, or white rice at Asian one.
But if I actually measure my BG when having such an attack it's NEVER been in a truly hypo range of less than 70. I'll be having such an attack with sugars in 80's or 90's even.
Reason being, that such meals quickly raise me to 190's, so when my over-active pancreas drops it back to a semi-normal level (Thank God my panaceas still at least pumps out insulin.), I get hypo symptoms from the relative drop, rather than due to actually being in a clinically hypo-state.
The rapid drop is perceived as a dangerous drop, so body kicks in counter-regulatory adrenaline, etc to bring sugar back up. The excess stress hormones then make me a shaky, jittery, irritable train-wreck. Especially if I'm also under the influence of caffeine.
I believe this is commonly called false-hypoglycemia.
But it's very real in terms of feeling very hypo-like, even though you're technically not.
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Now that is very interesting. I'd never heard of 'false-hypoglycemia' before, but it sounds like a reaction I used to get all the time at about 11 am or so many mornings. I don't get it nearly as often these days, perhaps because of eating fairly low carb all the time? But even back when this often happened I almost always had only cream/coffee for breakfast, so it wasn't due to a crash after a high carb breakfast or anything like that. I would just feel slightly shaky and 'off' just before lunchtime.
When I started testing my BG a couple of years ago I was eager to see if those 11:00 blues I got were associated with low BG. I was disappointed to find that my BG wasn't very low at all, so the cause remained a mystery. You've got me wondering if it might be this false-hypo thing you've described.
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