Posted by bleauberry on January 15, 2010, at 18:28:04
In reply to Depression caused by hypoglycemia?, posted by janejane on January 12, 2010, at 9:25:31
This is very easy to test yourself. You'll have to spend a little money at WalMart to get a glucose meter and the thingies to prick yourself with for drops of blood.
I've done that before. It doesn't hurt hardly at all. Very easy to do. You can test yourself whenever you want, keep a log, make a chart, and see what's going on, so as to rule it in or rule it out. Test before a meal, after a meal, between meals, wake-up time, bedtime...see what's going on.
I did that for a few weeks when I thought for sure I had some blood sugar things going on. That entire two weeks I recall having one spike reading that suprised me, quite random and didn't repeat, but other than that it all was well within normal. But at least I knew for sure. Without doing those tests, I wouldn't know and would still be wondering.
No matter what the disease happens to be in a discussion, a common base strategy is to eat 5 smaller meals per day rather than 3 big ones, eating something about every 2 hours, and to keep sugar intake to a minimum. Every meal needs a balance of protein and carbs with veggies and fruits. Even without any particular diagnosis or suspicion of disease, this is a good strategy for health preservation anyway.
Whether it be hypoglycemia or any number of other things going on, they do lessen the efficacy of any psych meds we take.
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