I will hit "need food now" melt-downs that shows all symptoms of a hypoglycemic blood-sugar crash. Three hypoglycemics I've met who've seen this swear I am hypoglycemic... so I showed the symptoms before I knew there was a malady out there that collected those symptoms. I even go through something I call the "treeby-sugar-crash-and-burn"-- too big of a refined sugar sweet treat is my ticket to misery.
There's just one problem from a medical perspective. You guessed it-- I have absolutely normal, steady blood sugar levels.
I think that with so more of us going diabetic at a younger age every year, we've lost a broad focus on the complexity of ways food interacts with the body. I've watched a stunning revival by a someone with a super-fast-metabolism who was nearly non-functional until a friend had the bright idea of insisting she drink a potassium supplement shake. I'm no doctor, but on a websearch I see that low calcium brings on a tingling sensation, especially in the lips and extremities?
For myself, I think my own problems are "kind of" psychosomatic. I think my body came out of my battle with disease hyper-aware and paranoid, willing to go to great lengths to draw my mental attention to small things, and it's hard for me not to follow the pull of the puppet strings.
You, I'm concerned about, because I think it would be just like your life for this to be a *combination* of problems presenting a falsely coherent symptomology. A nifty puzzle indeed!
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Date: 2006-05-07 02:50 pm (UTC)There's just one problem from a medical perspective.
You guessed it-- I have absolutely normal, steady blood sugar levels.
I think that with so more of us going diabetic at a younger age every year, we've lost a broad focus on the complexity of ways food interacts with the body. I've watched a stunning revival by a someone with a super-fast-metabolism who was nearly non-functional until a friend had the bright idea of insisting she drink a potassium supplement shake. I'm no doctor, but on a websearch I see that low calcium brings on a tingling sensation, especially in the lips and extremities?
For myself, I think my own problems are "kind of" psychosomatic. I think my body came out of my battle with disease hyper-aware and paranoid, willing to go to great lengths to draw my mental attention to small things, and it's hard for me not to follow the pull of the puppet strings.
You, I'm concerned about, because I think it would be just like your life for this to be a *combination* of problems presenting a falsely coherent symptomology. A nifty puzzle indeed!
Anyway, good luck with today.