Love Diabetes: Dangerous Liaisons of Cheating and Hypoglycemia
Posted by admin on Oct 15, 2009
How does blood glucose affect our emotions? As a person with diabetes and self-professed emotional dyslexia – these are uncharted waters I’d like to navigate. On “Oprah” today, she met with a therapist who wrote a book on why people cheat. The majority of cheaters felt they were not being duly appreciated rewarded in the relationship. Hypoglycemia impairs the middle brain from dispatching important “feel good” messages. I feel thieved! So how does one master the duplicity of intentional suppression of blood glucose (hypoglycemia) at the cost of an impaired emotional reward system? SUBSCRIBE to future vlogs and to share your comments at http://www.alliesvoice.com
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I have reactive …
I have reactive hypo and it was awful until I learned how to control my blood sugar. Thankfully, I don’t have diabetes but it does at least compel us to eat properly.
I used to have daily depression and that’s gone now.
Your description …
Your description FLIES IN THE FACE of that bogus research done in 2007 that says hypoglycemia does not impair cognitive function in the long-term. The research cites “hypoglycemic episodes may have a negative impact on cognitive function in the short term”.They must think that since it’s a different “hypoglycemic episode” 19 years later.. it’s a short-term complication that happens for the long-term. Why should we trust these turkeys for their ‘play on words’?
couldn’t add up the …
couldn’t add up the number of carbs I had to eat to balance out my sugar. The other thing happening with hypoglycemia, whether you notice it or not, is the blood doesn’t have enough energy to complete everything. Imagine thoughts are like skipping stones one a lake. Some thoughts might take 5, 6 or 18 skips in order for the memory or thought to be retrieved. Each skip requires energy. You run out of sugar, the stone doesn’t skip very far. Millions of stone skips at the same time.
I wouldn’t go for …
I wouldn’t go for any of Oprah’s pseudoscience junk. There’s two processes that are going on during hypoglycemia. One is if you get an adrenaline rush. The adrenaline rush is what turns down some of your cognitive functions, forcing you to react quick. The ideal situation is you’re about to fight and you have to take in your surrounds quickly and pump sugar into the blood for mortal combat. This can be the dumbness where stuff just stops working. Once I took too much insulin and…above
Hey Ivan, if it …
Hey Ivan, if it makes you feel any better you can whine here. I know I have
Sometimes its good to let it out rather than suck it up.
With type one we …
With type one we can only give, and the only posative feedback is not getting complications. So, no good feedback in the system. There have been times where the depression was pretty bad. Of course, I am against fighting it with chemicals that will make controll more difficult ( weight gain ) and, since no one like to hear me whine, I have learned to suck it up and keep moving.
Ivan!