I just recently found out that I am hypoglycemic. I have since learned that there are several types of Hypoglycemia. I am a functional hypoglycemic. I have been looking for several bits of information on the subject and haven't been too lucky in finding out much. That is one reason I have decided to make this page. I am now 19 years old and I have to change everything about me that I once did before. I know it will not be like this forever, but as of now it is. Everything I once new as normal is now being turned upside down. I must change all of my eating habits. I have to change my lifestyle and work it around this disorder that I have.
With Functional Hypoglycemia I must follow a strict diet and eat 6 small meals a day. My first thought was this is going to be impossible. I am slowly adjusting to it however, I guess it just takes a while. I visited the grocery store for the first time since I found out about it and let me tell you grocery stores are not a Hypoglycemic friendly environment. I could hardly find anything without sugar in it! Its not diabetic friendly either. I hope that this page helps me to deal with this and maybe it will help someone else also. Its not easy. I'm dizzy all the time and when my blood sugar drops I may pass out. There are so many things you have to watch and make sure you don't do anything wrong. I just hope it doesn't last forever...
Well its been a week and I feel the same except I have developed a headache. Friday I must go in to the doctor and have a gtt done because my blood sugar level was not as low. The only good side to the GTT is 3 days before you have to take it you can have all the sugar you'd like. My point of view on that is I'm gonna have what I want then because I may not be able to have it again for a very long time. I have been to 5 doctors in 2 weeks trying to figure out what was wrong with me and have had some pretty strange responses like "your having migrane headache symptoms without actually getting migrane headaches". Don't think he was right because I have had a headache its sugar withdrawl:) Then one doctor based his diagnosis on 1 stick of the finger "You are hypoglycemic." This didn't set to well with my parents so I am having a gtt done to find out if I was misdiagnosed again.
Well the results are in and I am borderline Hypoglycemic/Diabetic. Let me explain what this means. In the mornings my blood sugar level is normal. Then it shoots up then it drops down back and forth all day long I don't have stable sugar levels. My blood sugar doesn't go up high enough to be Diabetic and it doesn't go low enough to be hypoglycemic. However it does come close to both. I think I am just weird.:) Now I am back on a hypoglycemic diet for 2 weeks and then I guess we'll see from there.
Well I stayed on the hypoglycemic diet and I don't really feel any better. The dr told me to remain on it. He didn't tell me how long to remain on it. I guess I will just wait and see what happens. Its going to be extra hard during the holidays because my family always makes great food with sugar in them:( None for me though.
So I made it through the holidays with out any problem. It wasn't as hard as I thought. I limited myself to one soda per day and no sweets. It takes some getting used to..but I think I have finally gotten used to it. I was suprised it wasn't harder. I'm glad it wasn't. I know that if I do not take care of myself though that it will turn into diabetes and I will have to give myself shots of insulin..I don't want that.