Re: Doing the happy dance! (for once!)


JasonJayhawk wrote:
She
said it had something to do with a tumor that was producing a substance
that looks like insulin in the body, but that it isn't.

Could have been an insulinoma - it's a pancreatic tumor of (I think)
the islet cells and pretty much goes freelance, producing a bunch of
insulin willy-nilly.

The response of your body to food makes it apparent that there's either
too much insulin, or too much sensitivity to insulin, or too much of an
incretin memetic, or too much or presence of a hormone that looks like
insulin.

In my case (and maybe that of the other ladies, though I don't know
their numbers) it appears that the first gush of insulin you are
supposed to get when you eat is either slow, missing, or damaged in my
body so my bg goes too high. Then when the 2nd phase comes in it comes
on hard and fast and overshoots the mark, taking care of all of that
spiked glucose and then some, sending me low or at least down very
quickly.

I've probably had it awhile but have been "feeding the crashes" - when
I got hungry or shaky, I'd eat again (lots of carbs, too) not realizing
that I wasn't going from normal to low but probably from high to
normal.
Needless to say this probably caused more damage, plus colossal weight
gain.

Hopefully one of the three of you (Oz,LQ, and Susan) will get a
positive diagnosis and treatment, so that the other two can follow that
same path!!

The other gals have had it awhile, been diagnosed, and have figured out
how to deal with it. I'm new to it (found that I had too-high fastings
(104) 2 months ago with a cheapo meter and the RH showed up in a big
way once I stopped feeding the crashes) and am still wrestling with it.
Docs haven't been much use other than as roadblocks.

I'm pretty severely low-carb right now (mostly following the Protein
Power plan - I really like that book) with only about 7-10 g of carbs
per meal and 6 per snack and it's working ok right now. More than that
and I risk an "incident". Even a half cup of cottage cheese for snack
today had me low at 1 hour (only 6 g carbs in that).

But I'm actually having my 2nd decent day in a row, this is a new
thing!! For whatever reason the bg movement isn't causing me as much
problems now, I don't seem to feel every little twitch as bad. Not sure
if I should thank the acupuncturist, the vitamin manufacturer, God or
whatever, but I'm grateful.

And I do thank the other shaky ladies here (Ozgirl and Susan) who have
been extremely helpful.

LQ, almost feeling human again

.

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