Hypoglycaemia symptoms

[Karisma853]

Hi, I suffer from Hashimoto's and I have experienced some symptoms which I think could be hypoglycemia.

Well, I've been getting a lot of nausea and headaches and come over drowsy but when I eat something sugary, within 15-20 minutes the symptoms go away. Whenever my blood sugar gets tested it comes back pretty much normal.

Previous blood sugar results (reference range <10.1 mmolL)

May 2013: 4.6 mmol/L
Dec 2013: 4.9 mmol/L

Recent ACTH test result has shown my baseline cortisol to be high at 622 nmol/L (138-635 nmol/L)

Thanks for any help.

[Karisma853]

Hi, thanks for your help.

I had a recent HbA1c test done and the printout I received today says it was 33 mmol/L.

Jo xxx

[jemma116]

With the symptoms that you present and feel better when you eat something, then this is very typical of hypoglycaemia.

Make sure that you eat regularly.  Rather than sugary foods which will give you a high sugar rush, your blood sugars will also drop quickly.  

Eat foods that are slow release energy foods, like porridge, nuts, brown bread, fruit like an apple with skin on, meat, cheese, fish, yogurt, and so on.
Keep refined and sugary foods to a minimum or cut them out and stick to a healthy and well balanced diet with fruit and vegetables.  Cut out or cut down on fizzy drinks.  Make sure that you have a healthy snack in between meal times to keep your sugar levels stable so that they do not drop so low to make you feel ill.  Also make sure that you drink plenty of water so that you do not become dehydrated.

Rather than a ACTH test, the HbA1C blood test would have shown the average sugar levels over a 3 month period and having a glucose test may have indicated that you may be pre diabetic.  

With a glucose test, your blood is taken when you have fasted for over 8 hours.  You are given a glucose drink and then the blood is taken again after a while and examined again.  A reading of 6.3 is indicative of glucose intolerance (pre diabetes).  A blood test reading 6.9 and above indicates that you have diabetes.

Hope this helps.