Hypoglycemia???

[Sparky]

Team estrogen is a wonderful website!! Everyone is so helpful.
Thank you Susan I appreciate the info about your sister. I will have to check that out. I have been browsing the nutrition threads plenty of interesting reading there.
BouncyBouncy I use the endurolyte capsules by hammer but have not tried their other products. The other day I was on the hammer website reading up on the products I almost ordered the perpetuem, now I might have to. I do get the major headaches. I guess it might be worth checking on. I honestly do not know much aboout hypoglycemia yet. I found out I have it because of a blood test for something else. It all made sense though. I had been struggling to figure out how to fuel myself properly for long rides and failing miserably most of the time. At least I have a better starting point now.

[batsheva]

i have yo yo sugars and would bonk with hypoglycemias in response to the high sugar intake i was having to fuel myself when riding - i switched from cytomax to Gu2O which has less sugar/lower glycemic index and the perpetual bonking was cured overnight - the lower glycemic Gu2O works for me supplementing with their Gu gels - all the Hammer products caused the yo yo sugar thing also and would make me feel very ill and wiped out-- i guess it might be a case of trying some different products and just assessing your body's response to them and seeing what gives you enough sugar to fuel effectively without ending up hypo.

there are many causes of hypoglycemia, but the most common one in non diabetics is 'reactive' hypoglycemia - ie. in response to seeing sugar coming into the bloodstream, the body kind of overreacts and mops the excessive sugar up TOO effectively (talking simplistically), resulting in the paradoxical situation that eating sugar gives you LOW blood sugar-- your problem may or may not be this one - if your symptoms are 1.5 to 2 hrs after intake of high-carb food, it is likely to be this scenario.

i also have medication to stop the hyper/hypo glycemia thing seeing as my hypos only happen in response to high sugar intake and the consequent high blood glucose levels. the medication is acarbose and slows carbohydrate absorption in the gut so as to achieve more stable blood glucose and insulin response, colloquially called a 'carb blocker' although this is a prescription med usually presribed for diabetics, not a health food shop type 'carb blocker'.

maybe just a referral from your family physician to a diabetic endocrinologist if you are insured might be an economic way to get some help on blood glucose management and exercise, just for the cost of a 'co-pay'?? although it seems on the surface that hypoglycemia is the opposite to diabetes, management of them both in terms of diet (as one of the posts above said), is very similar-- so googling 'diabetes and exercise' might also give you some helpful info--

sorry to be a long winded post!

batsheva

[batsheva]

something else i have found--

i know fructose/high fructose corn syrup gets a real bad rap-- BUT metabolism of these sugars does not require insulin in the same way as glucose metabolism - so choosing products with fructose or high fructose corn syrup as the primary ingredient rather than ones with dextrose or glucose as the first ingredient has also helped.

if i get hypo on a ride, I always found a can of full 'sugar' Pepsi, which is HFCS sorted the problem wonderfully - got the fuel into me without the subsequent 'bonk' that happens with glucose intake--

i wouldnt dream of eating stuff with HFCS in usually - but on a ride it works fabulously for me to keep me going without bonking--

bat