I have all the symptoms of Hypoglycemia but I don't gain weight. I am not diabetic.Wondering if It could be something else. Hypoglycemics typically don't gain weight easily and it's not any form of diabetes... my guess is that you're not eating right, but in any case you should see a nutritionist or your doctor and have your blood sugar tested a few times.
By the way, unless you suffer from anemia or some related blood disorder, skip the visit to a hematologist. That advice was ignorant.
Skip reading all the crap that other clown pasted from the Wiki, it won't define or resolve anything for you!
Just see your doctor when you can and describe how you've been feeling, eating and sleeping. Please consult a hematologist for proper medical advice and be quick about it. Best of luck and good health. Signs and symptoms of hypoglycemia
Hypoglycemic symptoms and manifestations can be divided into those produced by the counterregulatory hormones (adrenaline and glucagon) triggered by the falling glucose, and the neuroglycopenic effects produced by the reduced brain sugar.
Adrenergic Manifestations
* Shakiness, anxiety, nervousness, tremor
* Palpitations, tachycardia
* Sweating, feeling of warmth
* Pallor, coldness, clamminess
* Dilated pupils
Glucagon Manifestations
* Hunger, borborygmus
* Nausea, vomiting, abdominal discomfort
Neuroglycopenic Manifestations
* Abnormal mentation, impaired judgement
* Nonspecific dysphoria, anxiety, moodiness, depression, crying, fear of dying
* Negativism, irritability, belligerence, combativeness, rage
* Personality change, emotional lability
* Fatigue, weakness, apathy, lethargy, daydreaming, sleep
* Confusion, amnesia, dizziness, delirium
* Staring, "glassy" look, blurred vision, double vision
* Automatic behavior, also known as automatism
* Difficulty speaking, slurred speech
* Ataxia, incoordination, sometimes mistaken for "drunkenness"
* Focal or general motor deficit, paralysis, hemiparesis
* Paresthesias, headache
* Stupor, coma, abnormal breathing
* Generalized or focal seizures
Not all of the above manifestations occur in every case of hypoglycemia. There is no consistent order to the appearance of the symptoms. Specific manifestations vary by age and by severity of the hypoglycemia. In young children vomiting often accompanies morning hypoglycemia with ketosis. In older children and adults, moderately severe hypoglycemia can resemble mania, mental illness, drug intoxication, or drunkenness. In the elderly, hypoglycemia can produce focal stroke-like effects or a hard-to-define malaise. The symptoms of a single person do tend to be similar from episode to episode.
In newborns, hypoglycemia can produce irritability, jitters, myoclonic jerks, cyanosis, respiratory distress, apneic episodes, sweating, hypothermia, somnolence, hypotonia, refusal to feed, and seizures or "spells". Hypoglycemia can resemble asphyxia, hypocalcemia, sepsis, or heart failure.
In both young and old patients, the brain may habituate to low glucose levels, with a reduction of noticeable symptoms despite neuroglycopenic impairment. In insulin-dependent diabetic patients this phenomenon is termed hypoglycemia unawareness and is a significant clinical problem when improved glycemic control is attempted. Another aspect of this phenomenon occurs in type I glycogenosis, when chronic hypoglycemia before diagnosis may be better tolerated than acute hypoglycemia after treatment is underway.
Nearly always, hypoglycemia severe enough to cause seizures or unconsciousness can be reversed without obvious harm to the brain. Cases of death or permanent neurologic damage occurring with a single episode have usually involved prolonged, untreated unconsciousness, interference with breathing, severe concurrent disease, or some other type of vulnerability. Nevertheless, brain damage or death has occasionally resulted from severe hypoglycemia. www.webmd.com I am Hypoglycemic, and you may be hyperglycimac you really need to take a sugar test to find ou. Please call your doctor you lost 5 points buddy... Patients do occasionally have episodes of hypoglycemia. A glucose tolerance test would tell you. The pancreas over reacts to a high carbohydrate meal and secretes too much insulin. A low carbohydrate diet works wonders after a diagnosis. I don't understand the answer to see a hematologist at all. An endocrinologist I could see. Nauesea ask your andochronolagist about canging the amount of insulin you are given Adrenergic Manifestations
* Shakiness, anxiety, nervousness, tremor
* Palpitations, tachycardia
* Sweating, feeling of warmth
* Pallor, coldness, clamminess
* Dilated pupils
Glucagon Manifestations
* Hunger, borborygmus
* Nausea, vomiting, abdominal discomfort
Neuroglycopenic Manifestations
* Abnormal mentation, impaired judgement
* Nonspecific dysphoria, anxiety, moodiness, depression, crying, fear of dying
* Negativism, irritability, belligerence, combativeness, rage
* Personality change, emotional lability
* Fatigue, weakness, apathy, lethargy, daydreaming, sleep
* Confusion, amnesia, dizziness, delirium
* Staring, "glassy" look, blurred vision, double vision
* Automatic behavior, also known as automatism
* Difficulty speaking, slurred speech
* Ataxia, incoordination, sometimes mistaken for "drunkenness"
* Focal or general motor deficit, paralysis, hemiparesis
* Paresthesias, headache
* Stupor, coma, abnormal breathing
* Generalized or focal seizures |
