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kewl.  all is forgiven.  :0)  sorry to have snarled. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I’m very sorry – I didn’t mean to insult you! I’m not suggesting at all that your symptoms are not real or that you don’t  have hypoglycemia.

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I dunno about that. I only answered "yes" to two of them: "I feel drowsy after a sweet/starchy meal" and "I wake up in the middle of the night and can’t get back to sleep" The rest don’t sound like me at all. — Debbie Cusick "When I get a little money I buy books: and if any is left over I buy food and clothes. "  - Erasmus Check out the asdlc FAQ at: http://www.grossweb.com/asdlc – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I would be very wary of this list of questions. They are designed so that almost everyone will answer yes to most of them.

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Great, Debbie.  That’s a good thing.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -I dunno about that. I only answered "yes" to two of them: "I feel drowsy after a sweet/starchy meal" and "I wake up in the middle of the night and can’t get back to sleep" The rest don’t sound like me at all. — Debbie Cusick "When I get a little money I buy books: and if any is left over I buy food and clothes. "  - Erasmus Check out the asdlc FAQ at: http://www.grossweb.com/asdlc I would be very wary of this list of questions. They are designed so that almost everyone will answer yes to most of them.

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Ah-HA … but you haven’t thought about my dangling a cat soaked in beef – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Jackson said: kewl.  all is forgiven.  :0)  sorry to have snarled. isn’t snarling the symptom of a hypo episode? <ducking and running with a huge naughty grin <pulling Bruno the 80 lb GSD with a ball in his mouth in front of her for "protection" — diabetes Type 1, L & R HbA1c: 12.1/5.6/<6.0 increasingly Paleolithic "never never give up", Winston Churchill…"or look for another way", wombn

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MY GOODNESS!! That all describes me!!!! Serena

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Man I just saw a treatise on hypoglycemia symptoms from the HAI (Hypoglycemia Assn. Inc.).  If ever I had been uncertain as to whether or not I had it, after reading the list of symptoms I would have been absolutely sure.  I appeal to some of the newbies here – or to those who have never been tested – to look at these.  FYI  :0) Bulletin #44 (free to download; no copyright) Hypoglycemia Association, Inc. Box 165 Ashton, MD 20861-0165                                TYPICAL COMPLAINTS The light hurts my eyes. My mouth is so dry I feel as if I could spit cotton. I feel drowsy after a sweet/starchy meal. The pain in my neck is murder. I feel best after the evening meal. I frequently have nightmares. I wake up in the middle of the night and can’t get back to sleep. My hands perspire when I have to make a speech in public, or take a test. Preparing for a trip is terribly exhausting, leaving me sick and distressed and sometimes I cry. I have to drink coffee or caffeinated soft drinks to keep going. I have frequent abdominal pain or gas. When I introduce people, I panic and forget their names. I was considered a good student, but I almost failed several subjects. Studying was a tremendous effort. I avoid social engagements with all sorts of excuses. Sometimes I wake up in a sweat at night. I think I am especially sensitive to color, sound, and odor. I insult people without meaning to. I regret it afterward, but it happens again and again. This itching and crawling of the skin is nerve racking. I just can’t get organized. I either feel guilty or I blame others. I can’t handle stress. I cry easily. I get angry easily, which may result in my yelling at the person. It takes a long time to recover. When I get up quickly from a reclining position, I get dizzy. Sometimes I black out or everything becomes dim. I sleep so hard, as if drugged, with a feeling of sinking, sinking; I try to wake myself up but can’t. I have a history of constipation problems. I often feel tired or blue, but after eating ice cream or candy I feel well and happy for a short time. I have always had trouble with motion sickness. Often when I go to get something, I forget what I went for. I know I’m a doormat. I don’t know how to stand up for myself. I can’t get to the bottom of my breath. I get frequent colds. My insides feel weak and trembly. It was six months before I felt happy and really able to take care of my new baby. I have difficulty keeping a job. I get irritated with people I work with. My heart beats too fast sometimes. My heart beats too slow sometimes. The day I go shopping I just have no strength left for anything else. Of the 40 complaints listed, 26 were perfect descriptions of my daily life. In the year or so I’ve been low-carbing, all those symptoms have remarkably diminished, and most of them have disappeared altogether.  A miracle diet? Nah.  Life-changing?  You bet your last macadamia nut.  I challenge any of the low-fatties to deny (and support with evidence) the connection between this bizarre turnaround and LC. — Linda My Low-Carb Renaissance http://www.jaxworld.com/lowcarb/linda.html

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I would be very wary of this list of questions. They are designed so that almost everyone will answer yes to most of them. There was a test done at a university several years ago to test susceptability to charletons, and it went like this: A class was given personnel horoscopes based on their birth date and time of birth. The horoscopes included things like "you get nervous when you have to speak in public," "you have deep inner thoughts that you never share with anyone," etc. They were asked to rate how well the horoscope matched their personality, and whether they now believed that the stars influenced their personality, and the average score was extremely high (I dont’ remember the exact number). They were later told that the horoscopes were just distributed randomly…. -Adam Selene – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Man I just saw a treatise on hypoglycemia symptoms from the HAI (Hypoglycemia Assn. Inc.).  If ever I had been uncertain as to whether or not I had it, after reading the list of symptoms I would have been absolutely sure.  I appeal to some of the newbies here – or to those who have never been tested – to look at these.  FYI  :0) Bulletin #44 (free to download; no copyright) Hypoglycemia Association, Inc. Box 165 Ashton, MD 20861-0165                               TYPICAL COMPLAINTS The light hurts my eyes. My mouth is so dry I feel as if I could spit cotton. I feel drowsy after a sweet/starchy meal. The pain in my neck is murder. I feel best after the evening meal. I frequently have nightmares. I wake up in the middle of the night and can’t get back to sleep. My hands perspire when I have to make a speech in public, or take a test. Preparing for a trip is terribly exhausting, leaving me sick and distressed and sometimes I cry. I have to drink coffee or caffeinated soft drinks to keep going. I have frequent abdominal pain or gas. When I introduce people, I panic and forget their names. I was considered a good student, but I almost failed several subjects. Studying was a tremendous effort. I avoid social engagements with all sorts of excuses. Sometimes I wake up in a sweat at night. I think I am especially sensitive to color, sound, and odor. I insult people without meaning to. I regret it afterward, but it happens again and again. This itching and crawling of the skin is nerve racking. I just can’t get organized. I either feel guilty or I blame others. I can’t handle stress. I cry easily. I get angry easily, which may result in my yelling at the person. It takes a long time to recover. When I get up quickly from a reclining position, I get dizzy. Sometimes I black out or everything becomes dim. I sleep so hard, as if drugged, with a feeling of sinking, sinking; I try to wake myself up but can’t. I have a history of constipation problems. I often feel tired or blue, but after eating ice cream or candy I feel well and happy for a short time. I have always had trouble with motion sickness. Often when I go to get something, I forget what I went for. I know I’m a doormat. I don’t know how to stand up for myself. I can’t get to the bottom of my breath. I get frequent colds. My insides feel weak and trembly. It was six months before I felt happy and really able to take care of my new baby. I have difficulty keeping a job. I get irritated with people I work with. My heart beats too fast sometimes. My heart beats too slow sometimes. The day I go shopping I just have no strength left for anything else. Of the 40 complaints listed, 26 were perfect descriptions of my daily life. In the year or so I’ve been low-carbing, all those symptoms have remarkably diminished, and most of them have disappeared altogether.  A miracle diet? Nah.  Life-changing?  You bet your last macadamia nut.  I challenge any of the low-fatties to deny (and support with evidence) the connection between this bizarre turnaround and LC. — Linda My Low-Carb Renaissance http://www.jaxworld.com/lowcarb/linda.html

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I would be very wary of this list of questions. They are designed so that almost everyone will answer yes to most of them.

Oh yeah?  Who told you this? *sigh* A.  Though I am imperfect indeed, I’m not a gullible airhead who reads a survey and immediately takes it as gospel.  I resent the inference. B.  My symptoms are/were REAL.  Excuse my little hissy, but I had been told for YEARS that what I was feeling was all in my head.  Don’t you even go there, sonny. C.  Your point is recognized.  There are, indeed, "surveys" which powerfully suggest certain issues to the participant.  Believe it or not, I have seen a few in my 40+ years on the earth.  However, don’t lump them all in one pile. These symptoms are not just funky little things someone came up with to see how many folks would jump on the hypoglycemia bandwagon.  They are the result of decades of research, beginning in the 1950s. L. Jackson

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I’m very sorry – I didn’t mean to insult you! I’m not suggesting at all that your symptoms are not real or that you don’t  have hypoglycemia. But, come on, you have to admit that "getting nervious before public speaking" is hardly indicative of any disease! It simply means that you’re human. Many of the questions in that list were of this type. -Adam Selene – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I would be very wary of this list of questions. They are designed so that almost everyone will answer yes to most of them. Oh yeah?  Who told you this? *sigh* A.  Though I am imperfect indeed, I’m not a gullible airhead who reads a survey and immediately takes it as gospel.  I resent the inference. B.  My symptoms are/were REAL.  Excuse my little hissy, but I had been told for YEARS that what I was feeling was all in my head.  Don’t you even go there, sonny. C.  Your point is recognized.  There are, indeed, "surveys" which powerfully suggest certain issues to the participant.  Believe it or not, I have seen a few in my 40+ years on the earth.  However, don’t lump them all in one pile. These symptoms are not just funky little things someone came up with to see how many folks would jump on the hypoglycemia bandwagon.  They are the result of decades of research, beginning in the 1950s. L. Jackson

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