My dr. suggested a glucose test (3 hours in the drs office !)
I thought i was going to die!!
My blood sugar level peaked at 95 and then dropped fast to 43 .
I thought the nurse was going to run me over bringing me a soda to make me drink it .
But it seems to be reactive hypo I cant hardly work out or anything ( not that i feel like doing that now anyway) without it taking a nose dive .
If any one has had this problem please let me know .... and let me know if it improved during your treatment for lyme .
Thanks !!!!
Posted by venus (Member # 16991) on :
I wasn't diagnosed with it, but i was having crazy fluctuations before I was diagnosed with lyme. My body was not regulating at all. I lost considerable weight. Now I know it was from the lyme. It has gotten better.
Kathy
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Lyme plays havoc with the entire endocrine system. For more about that, authors below get into explaining that and what you can do about it.
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THE REQUIREMENTS OF PROTEIN & AMINO ACID DURING ACUTE & CHRONIC INFECTION . . .
Anura V. Kurpad - Institute of Population Health & Clinical Research, Bangalore, India
129. Indian J Med Res 124, August 2006, pp 129-148. Review Article.
Excerpt: " . . . In general, the amount of EXTRA protein that would appear to be needed is of the order of 20-25 per cent of the recommended intake, for most infections. . . ."
- Full article at link (or google the title if it does not go through).
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Posted by Leelee (Member # 19112) on :
lymessc, I have hypoglycemia, too. It is an awful feeling.
I have had it for years and years although, like a lot of things, many doctors dismissed my complaints.
Finally, a friend suggested I see a nutritionist. I brought her my blood work. She took one look and said I was hypoglycemic. My fasting glucose level was 49.
She gave me an eating plan and I have followed it diligently for several years. It helps a lot, but even so, I crash for no known reason.
I had my first LLMD visit last week. He made a clinical diagnosis of Lyme and Bartonella. We are awaiting my test results from Igenex and Fry.
He said hypoglycemia can be a symptom of Lyme. That makes sense to me. I guess the bacteria eat up all my food stores.
Posted by Geneal (Member # 10375) on :
I have it now too. I always had issues with sugar though.
When I was initially diagnosed my blood sugar was high.
Of course I felt like my sugar was low and kept putting sugar in.
Diflucan and florinef can cause low blood sugar too.
When my stomach growls, if I don't eat I feel I am going to keel over.
Small frequent meals help a lot.
Hugs,
Geneal
Posted by Kreynolds (Member # 15117) on :
Yes I was diagnosed Hypoglycemic after the diagnosis of LD
Posted by lpkayak (Member # 5230) on :
i was dx before i knew i had lyme...but i might have had it then.
with tx and diet changes it is so under control i'm not sure if ii have it anymore
Posted by electrolite (Member # 16404) on :
Yes, I was also diagnosed with hypoglycemia after being diagnosed with Lyme.
I don't know what all it takes to be diagnosed, but I had a glucose level of 60 (non-fasting), so my doctor said I was probably hypoglycemic.
Other times I had a glucose level of 80 or 85 when fasting. Any thoughts?
Posted by tdtid (Member # 10276) on :
I was actually diagnosed with it before I was diagnosed with Lyme Disease but for five years of being undiagnosed, I was testing positive for all sorts of random things but being told, "something else is still going on".
So whether the hypoglycemia was due to lyme or would have happened anyway, it's hard to say, but yes, I do have both and wonder about the connection.
It's no fun and yes, that 3 hour fasting test where you have to drink the sweet stuff had me shaking and tremoring before the test was even completed. Ugh.