HealingWell
Search Close Search
☰

hypoglycemia from Lyme?

Support Forums
>
Lyme Disease
✚ New Topic ✚ Reply
❬ ❬ Previous Thread |Next Thread ❭ ❭
Posted 1/3/2015 8:34 PM (GMT 0)
My treatment has been going amazingly well. So many of my zillions of symptoms have either faded or disappeared completely. It's pretty awesome. I still get mini-herxes every once and awhile, but if I detox like crazy, they tend to go away in a day.

SO… I've started noticing one troubling symptom that is either new or has been going on this entire time and I just didn't notice because I was sick with so many other symptoms. So, I wake up feeling great. Then, about ten to twenty minutes after I eat breakfast, I become exhausted - totally warn out and tired. After an hour, it fades, and I am back to normal. I'm now realizing this happens after every meal. I eat a low sugar, gluten/dairy free diet. I've tried to eat different foods, and it makes no difference.

Just doing my own research, this sounds a lot like hypoglycemia. I'm going to talk to my LLMD about this at our next appointment, but I was just curious if Lyme brought on hypoglycemia for anyone else? If so, how did you treat it?

I'm HOPING this is just another symptom that will fade as I continue to get better.
Posted 1/3/2015 8:48 PM (GMT 0)
Hypoglycemia was one of my very first symptoms. Eating small frequent meals never helped me very much. I'd rather not eat sometimes because it makes me so tired after. I got these weird glucose supplement pills that are supposed to help. But I've never taken them long enough to find out.
Posted 1/4/2015 12:29 AM (GMT 0)
You shouldn't be getting into low blood sugar that quickly. Most low blood sugar happens when you don't eat for a while. There is a problem called reactive hypoglycemia but that usually happens within a few hours of eating.

At least for me, that's how it works...I've had hypoglycemia almost my whole life (diagnosed when I was 12).
Posted 1/4/2015 1:55 AM (GMT 0)
I've had hypoglycemia most of my life too and I have to say that Lyme has made it worse. At this time, I have to eat every 2 hours to keep my blood sugar from dropping too low. My doctor said it will get better as I get better.

I agree with Kurrykid - what you are describing sounds like reactive hypoglycemia or something with similar symptoms. I found the description below on the Mayo Clinic site:

Reactive hypoglycemia (postprandial hypoglycemia) is low blood sugar that occurs after a meal — usually within four hours after eating. Low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) usually occurs while fasting. Signs and symptoms of reactive hypoglycemia may include hunger, weakness, shakiness, sleepiness, sweating, lightheadedness, anxiety and confusion.

It's possible to have symptoms that are similar to reactive hypoglycemia without actually having low blood sugar. True reactive hypoglycemia symptoms that are caused by low blood sugar occurring after eating are uncommon. For the majority of people with postprandial symptoms, the actual cause of the symptoms is not clear but may relate to what food was eaten or variations in the timing of the food moving through the stomach and intestinal tract.
✚ New Topic ✚ Reply