Diabetic Recipes
I had a very curious and unexpected conversation at work recently. An amusing person that I work with, who I'll refer to as "The Random Talker", will pour out mouthfuls of directionless information at the drop of a hat. I'm talking about a totally un-sequestered menagerie of anomalous comments. This time, however, something struck home with me and we had a more meaningful, if not still awkward conversation.
Random: "Sometimes I get really angry and confused when I don't eat enough"
Me: "Oh really, I know the feeling,"
Random: "I become hypoglycemic, but I bet you don't know what that is, do you?"
Me- (Sounding like a know it all): "Ya, your blood sugar drops, and you can get sweaty, hungry, nervous, jittery, not a good feeling"
Random-(Now stunned): "That's right, but when I get hypoglycemic, I mainly get angry and want to yell at people"
Me: "Do you have diabetes?"
Random: "No, I just get hypoglycemic sometimes"
Me: "I have type-1 diabetes so I know that feeling all too well, and of high blood sugars too"
Random: "Oh ya?"....
At this point the conversation turned to the pressing matter of current reality-TV drama and to the successor of a fight between Marvel and DC Comic characters. My mind faded to gray,.
I was intrigued by this conversation though. Were there really people who experienced serious low-blood sugars without being diabetic? Is it afflictive enough to impact daily life, like my co-worker? Do they carry glucometers and monitor blood sugar readings the same way people with diabetes do? I need to know more. I need to know if I have a bigger connection to Random than I realized.
Maybe I do, maybe I don't, but did you know that it's physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky? Curious.
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July 6th, 2008
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10-04-2007 3:40 PM EDT by Scott Marvel
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Food Highs & Lows Relationships Emotions Real Life
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Yup. It's possible to be just hypoglycemic. Interestingly, a lot of them end up diabetic because of their chronic over production of insulin.
The ones I know don't test very often though.
I was diagnosed hypoglycemic about 23 years before my Type 2 dx. The doctors never even suggested that I ever test. Nor did they let me know that it put me at increased risk for Type 2.
That's unfortunate. I hope doctor's are spreading the word now, and realize the connection between straight hypoglycemia and future diabetes.
i knew a girl in school who had hypoglycemic episodes occassionally... before i really knew what that meant.. she never tested though, just had little snack packs with her incase she felt low. but from what i know of her she hasn't developed diabetes.
Kudos to her for keeping snacks nearby. I hope she has been informed of the connection to diabetes and the risk it may impose. What a rough way to be introduced to diabetes and the lows that come with it.
I've been a type 1 diabetic for 22 years. And one of my best friends (who's father is type 2) has ocassional hypoglycemic episodes. One day she was at work & was so out of it that one of her co-workers called me to come help her. When I got there it was about 30 minutes later. She was still slurring her words and even though she had consumed 1/2 a candy bar & part of a pepsi, her blood sugar was in the high 70s. I know for a non-diabetic that's an okay blood sugar, but I swear we were so worried about her. She was having all the classic symptoms of a low. And man, it wasn't fun!
The trouble with the current thinking is that it goes by the wrong premise: If your blood sugar is 'normal to low' than there is no issue. My husband has been showing hypoglycemic tendancies for the last 3 years and is living under this premise. I keep telling him: "Baby, you've got to watch it. It will turn on you." But, unfortunately, he doesn't see it. And doctors don't either. So sad, because so many of the issues can be avoided later on if it's caught early.
Sammie
That's a great point you make about your husband. I wish you the best monitoring how things shake out. I surely hope it doesn't "turn on him".
Wow, being give that kind of taste of life with diabetes is not cool. Maybe it will stand as a warning that diabetes may be headed her way. If it runs in the family, I'm sure she has been exposed to other un-pleasantries bofore too. Lows are definitely not fun and I hope she has not had to experience more of that.
Wow, being give that kind of taste of life with diabetes is not cool. Maybe it will stand as a warning that diabetes may be headed her way. If it runs in the family, I'm sure she has been exposed to other un-pleasantries bofore too. Lows are definitely not fun and I hope she has not had to experience more of that.
For years I had that terrible "jittery"feeling. Shook all over. And yes for 18 months now I have carried a dx of diabetes II If just one doc had concentrated on the why and what this might lead to, I wonder if I could have avoided diabetes!!!
Hi Scott,
My youngest daughter is not a diabetic, but has to check her blood sugars at least 3 or 4 times a day. She is wheat, gluten and fructose intolerant. She used to crash very badly. I took her to my doctor shortly after my diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. He ran a lot of tests on her and found that she is severely reactive to the high insuluin levels she makes. He told me to keep her on a low carb diet and for her not to eat any sugary foods. She has been doing extremely well on this diet and hasn't been crashing any more. She eats three meals a day and has a protein drink in between each meal. She is very active and although she is very slim has lost another 5 pounds. Since there is a lot of diabetes in my family I am hoping that catching this early can keep her from becoming diabetic.
That's great for you to have such a proactive approach. Diabetes prevention is the key step to turning around this worldwide issue. My best goes out to both of you. It sounds like you are making the right decisions for a healthy future and that is something to be very proud of. Thank you for reading and thank you so much for sharing your story.
One of my best friends is hypoglycemic. Her doctor has told her that she should test on a regular basis but she can't because insurance won't cover it. So she feels like garbage almost all the time because she has such a difficult time controling her lows. She knows she could become diabetic but she feels there's nothing she can do about it. So she may not test the BS but she definitely deals with the BS of insurance same as we do.
Talk about a serious need for our health care system to focus on preventative care. This is a perfect example. It's terrible that insurance won't cover her testing. If she was able to control blood sugars more normally I think it could delay or prevent the onset of diabetes.
-My best to both of you