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Hi everyone, I'm not sure what to do but maybe someone has some ideas what might be going on with me. I have had lyme since May of 2010.
I have been on antibiotics this round since Nov. 2011. The last one was tindamax which I took for about 6 or 7 weeks. I've been off for a week and 1/2 due to yeast.
I have been taking nystatin since I'm now diflucan resistant. I'm probably nystatin resistant too. Use Ultimate Flora between 100 - 200 IU each day.
The yeast is slowly getting under control but I have been really faint and dizzy feeling with heart palpitations or quickly changing rates lately after about noon each day. I had prior skipped beats so I'm on a holter monitor right now.
It seems as if I eat it does get better but just not for very long. I'm trying to stay away from sugar but it's hard when you are about to faint.
Did I go off sugar too quickly? Do I have hypoglycemia? Could I have a tumor on my pancreas making it produce too much insulin?(okay that's more of a joke) Please help!!!
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There is no such thing as going off sugar too quickly. It would not cause a medical problem for anyone if they stopped eating sugar immediately.
If you have hypoglycemia, the last thing you are to eat is sugar. My husband was diagnosed with it and the rule was NO SUGAR (and alcohol is pure sugar). Sugar just brings on another hypoglycemia attack.
So, you absolutely have to stop eating sugar when you are about to faint. You could be making yourself have more attacks.
Each time a hypoglycemic eats sugar, it makes the pancreas produce too much insulin in response which then makes you go into a low blood sugar state where you can pass out.
Do this for enough years and you will wear out your pancreas and become a diabetic. You don't want that.
To avoid hypoglycemic attacks, you eat frequent small meals, no sugar, no simple carbs, no caffeine. You only eat complex carbs. If you have lyme, you don't eat carbs at all or you will have lyme and yeast to boot.
So, stop eating sugar and simple carbs and see how you do. Get the old book "Hypoglycemia; the disease your doctor will refuse to treat" out of the library and look at the symptom list. That will tell you if you have it or not.
The treatment for hypoglycemia is frequent small meals, so carry food wherever you go. It can be cans of veggies with pop tops, nuts, cheese, etc. Don't wait until you get hungry.
Eat every 2 hours. If you are doing extreme physical work, eat more often. Once you are hungry, it is often too late. If you feel faint, eat, but not sugar. If you get irritable or crabby, check your watch. If you are hypoglycemic, that irritability indicates that you need to eat. Eating food will get rid of the irritability if you are hypo. Seen it work a million times.
This is what the endocrinologist and nutritionist advised us and it worked for my husband. He was falling asleep at the wheel driving home from work.
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nonna05
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So part of this extreme fatigue could be the food I'm getting??? and not Mepron or LD....
How in the Lord's namre does anyone figure this all out..
Then you're so sick ,where's the energy to get all this tested, figured out, changed...arg
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TF - You are the BEST! This info is exactly what I need but couldn't find. I went to the health food store and they told me I could use Sunwarrior protein shakes (I checked the label and it looked clean for this diet). I think I m going to drink those at work when I can't get to something else. It's just amazing, disease on top of disease for so many. Like I need another thing to manage, but I'm grateful for what I've got and really grateful for help from you! Thanks so much!
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