benjamind2010
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I suffer from unstable blood sugar. I've been monitoring my sugar intake for a while now, but recently I've been cutting out most carbs and sticking to mostly vegies and oats, and I had no idea it ever got this bad.
At first I felt a bit uneasy, sort of stressed out, then I started getting paranoid, felt like everyone was talking about me behind my back, etc, started freaking out, wanting reassurance, etc, and almost felt like I was going to go psychotic. Then I got nausea, and started feeling like I was going to black out, everything went grey, pictures disappeared off the walls, I couldn't see them or the windows. At that stage I decided to gorge on about 60 grams of chocolate because I assumed (rightly so) that my blood sugar was low. Spoke to a friend who is a diabetic and she said that I could have easily died today.
And so the story goes - I've made an appointment with the doctor, this isn't the sort of thing that should be happening to a 32 year old man. Yes, I've been under some stress, mostly minor, but with someone who has PTSD even minor stress can be very difficult at times, but I can't see how that could cause dangerously low blood sugar levels. I could have died without even knowing what was wrong, it was only thinking about my grandmother who suffers these turns from time to time that I suddenly thought maybe my sugar is too low. I was right, the chocolate nipped it in the bud.
I hate to think of what would have happened had I not thought about it. I was told shock, coma, perhaps even death, could have occurred. I'm not too thrilled about that.
Does anyone else here suffer from these conditions? I know a couple of diabetics, but they don't seem to have too much trouble, apart from needing insulin all the time. This thing really scared the hell out of me. I think that's maybe why my behaviour hasn't been spectacular in the past couple of months. I've been cutting out too many carbs and turning myself into someone who freaks out all the time.
Time to go back to the diet I was on previously. I don't care if the 5kg I lost suddenly comes back, I'm sick to death of these mood swings - and now blackouts. So it's no joke anymore. Whatever diet it is I'm doing it's wrong. Period.
UPDATE: Still in an extremely crappy mood. Like I want to knock someone's head off. Looks like I need to eat more chocolate, so I'll finish the rest (about 140g) of the block. See what this low-carb diet does to you...back to square one before you know it...sometimes I don't know why I even bother with this diet crap. It obviously doesn't work. I try different things, to no avail. Spoke to a friend who said we all need carbs, but just need the right ones, well, I've been eating the right ones - the ones with a GI below 50 and vegies. Maybe I'm one of those "skinny-fat" type people who need to eat lots of carbs and like 250g of protein a day. I get enough in my diet, so I don't know what extra protein I need. I thought 90g was enough for someone of my size.
At first I felt a bit uneasy, sort of stressed out, then I started getting paranoid, felt like everyone was talking about me behind my back, etc, started freaking out, wanting reassurance, etc, and almost felt like I was going to go psychotic. Then I got nausea, and started feeling like I was going to black out, everything went grey, pictures disappeared off the walls, I couldn't see them or the windows. At that stage I decided to gorge on about 60 grams of chocolate because I assumed (rightly so) that my blood sugar was low. Spoke to a friend who is a diabetic and she said that I could have easily died today.
And so the story goes - I've made an appointment with the doctor, this isn't the sort of thing that should be happening to a 32 year old man. Yes, I've been under some stress, mostly minor, but with someone who has PTSD even minor stress can be very difficult at times, but I can't see how that could cause dangerously low blood sugar levels. I could have died without even knowing what was wrong, it was only thinking about my grandmother who suffers these turns from time to time that I suddenly thought maybe my sugar is too low. I was right, the chocolate nipped it in the bud.
I hate to think of what would have happened had I not thought about it. I was told shock, coma, perhaps even death, could have occurred. I'm not too thrilled about that.
Does anyone else here suffer from these conditions? I know a couple of diabetics, but they don't seem to have too much trouble, apart from needing insulin all the time. This thing really scared the hell out of me. I think that's maybe why my behaviour hasn't been spectacular in the past couple of months. I've been cutting out too many carbs and turning myself into someone who freaks out all the time.
Time to go back to the diet I was on previously. I don't care if the 5kg I lost suddenly comes back, I'm sick to death of these mood swings - and now blackouts. So it's no joke anymore. Whatever diet it is I'm doing it's wrong. Period.
UPDATE: Still in an extremely crappy mood. Like I want to knock someone's head off. Looks like I need to eat more chocolate, so I'll finish the rest (about 140g) of the block. See what this low-carb diet does to you...back to square one before you know it...sometimes I don't know why I even bother with this diet crap. It obviously doesn't work. I try different things, to no avail. Spoke to a friend who said we all need carbs, but just need the right ones, well, I've been eating the right ones - the ones with a GI below 50 and vegies. Maybe I'm one of those "skinny-fat" type people who need to eat lots of carbs and like 250g of protein a day. I get enough in my diet, so I don't know what extra protein I need. I thought 90g was enough for someone of my size.
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