momintexas
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Has anyone ever gotten dizzy and nauseous from cutting back on carbs in the beginning?
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scorpiogirl
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Yes for me it is! I become very weak, woozy and irritable. I'm barely 95lbs so cutting that out and I'm weak as a kitten. No can do.
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quote:Originally posted by scorpiogirl: Yes for me it is! I become very weak, woozy and irritable. I'm barely 95lbs so cutting that out and I'm weak as a kitten. No can do.
Same here! And I've got about 10 lbs. on scorpiogirl!
That type of eating plan works well for some, but not for others.
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Yes. I need carbs, I can't do all protein and veggies. I ate healthy carbs all through treatment without limiting them at all.
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I got weak after cutting back. I get dizzy but didn't notice it getting worse after cutting back on the carbs.
I had to cut a lot out because I ate mostly carbs prior to getting diagnosed with lyme. Most did come from veggies but a good amount came from grains. I ate pasta like 3 or 4 times/week. Very little meat as I had previously been a vegan but decided to just stick with eating healthy overall.
After I started treating for yeast, I had to cut way back. I did and at first felt awful. I would get weak and shaky. I believe this was related to blood sugar issues in my case.
For awhile now, I had been having hypoglycemic episodes all the time. During the 2-3 days my hypoglycemic episodes were out of control. My sugar kept dropping and I had a very hard time keeping it above 70. I decided to add some grains back in for a little while and I gradually cut them out. I did this over the course of about 10 days.
It seems to have worked well for me.
Since I've cut back on the grains, I haven't had another hypoglycemic episode. I've checked my sugar numerous times and it is actually more stable than it has ever been. Always around 85.
My experience also makes me wonder if yeast plays a role with blood sugar issues. It seems to me that if we're cutting off the yeast supply of sugar, then it is going to go after what we have left. Of course, I have no idea if this is true or not, but it makes sense in my mind.
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Let's say you were eating 500 grams of carbs a day and you cut back to 250 .. you shouldn't feel horrible on that. (IMO)
Now if you cut back from 500 to 50 ... yeah, you're gonna feel like crap.
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The brain will not survive for very long without glucose and without fats.
Simple Carbohydrates don't serve us well = burn and crash. Complex Carbohydrates do and are necessary for life. If you google, you will find listings of either.
Take care.
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I have a question I am trying to cut out all carbs, and at the same time I started Rifampin and Diflucan, well my last dose of Rifampin was at 9pm last night and around 1 today my arms are heavy and weak and I am very anxious, No I am barely eating because of lack of things to eat, today I drank a glass of V8 ate an apple and have been snacking on sunflower seeds, when I get home I will eat some meat and salad, I don't know if its yeast or Rifampin trying to figure it out. Also my xanax is not working like it should ever since starting Rifampin
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I had a hard time on Diflucan. It could be a combination of that and adjusting your diet (maybe yeast die off)..? However, Rifampin is a tough drug, too.
It's hard to say since you started both drugs and adjusted your diet at the same time.
Yes, do eat complex carbs like lymetoo said! It will only help you.
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Jamers
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Mrs.Scampi-I had the very same reaction with the heavy, weak arms and anxiety since starting Bactrim for Bartonella. I guess this is part of Bart? I was wondering the same because I could make a fist but barely tighten it.
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momintexas
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Thank you very much for all of the replies!
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nefferdun
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Complex carbs are not just vegetables. Eat brown rice, barely, quinoa etc. which are medium glycemic carbs. It takes a while for them to digest so your blood sugar does not spike.
Your body needs carbohydrates. I have a diabetic son and he can control his blood sugar as long as he does not eat more than 90 carbs per meal - complex carbs. You can even eat bread if you buy Ezekial bread which is sprouted grain and lower on the glycemic index than whole wheat.
Meat is toxic especially red meat eaten in huge portions. It is hard on your kidneys. When you are taking massive amounts of abx, you do not want to stress the liver and kidneys.
The Atkins diet is very unhealthy. Atkins died at the age of 72 from bleeding on the brain after a fall. But he had been suffering from congestive heart failure and high blood pressure and had already had a heart attack.
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If you are eating too much sugar, you can and will definitely get headeches, etc when you originally cut those out. This is because your body needs time to adjust your insulin levels. Mark Furhman, on his book Eat to Live, explains this well.
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AZURE WISH
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Are you eating enough calories? if cutting carbs caused you to limit your caloric intake to much that is bad. another thing....how is your sugar. do you have diabetes or hypoglcemia (some sugar issue)?
also if you are taking things to kill yeast with this new diet there can be die off.
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