I have anxiety about my gestational diabetes test?
Posted by admin on Nov 6, 2009
I have really bad anxiety and just by drinking soda or anything really sugary, I get anxiety attacks. I can kinda control them but I hate getting them. Is the drink really high in sugar?
don’t worry the drink they have you drink isnt great but it isnt to bad. It’s like a orange flavored sugar water. I just chugged mine to get it over with.
Dr Lason, hypoglycemia can cause anxiety and depression
Posted by admin on Oct 6, 2009
For 30 years, Joan Mathews Larson, PhD has been treating addiction, anxiety and depression with natural supplements in order to correct the underlying biochemical problems which cause these conditions.
In this video clip, she notes that hypoglycemia, that is low blood sugar were severe fluctuations in blood sugar, can predispose a person to depression and what only appears to be deep rooted emotional and psychological disorders.
She also notes that nearly all alcoholics have hypoglycemia.
Although she does not mention this in this video clip, if hypoglycemia is causing depression, drugs like Prozac cannot possibly solve the problem.
The only way to solve its is to control blood sugar by restricting easily absorbed carbohydrates.
“Early on, when we started treating hypoglycemia, mainly because of Bill W. [ Bill Wilson, cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous ] raving in his communication to AA [ Alcoholics Anonymous ] physicians that almost all alcoholics were hypoglycemic.
“We tested and tested, and he was right.”
Dr. Larson is the author of “7 Weeks to Sobriety”, “Depression Free”, and “7 Weeks to Emotional Healing”.
Duration : 0:3:19
Dr Lason, hypoglycemia can cause anxiety and depression
Posted by admin on Oct 6, 2009
For 30 years, Joan Mathews Larson, PhD has been treating addiction, anxiety and depression with natural supplements in order to correct the underlying biochemical problems which cause these conditions.
In this video clip, she notes that hypoglycemia, that is low blood sugar were severe fluctuations in blood sugar, can predispose a person to depression and what only appears to be deep rooted emotional and psychological disorders.
She also notes that nearly all alcoholics have hypoglycemia.
Although she does not mention this in this video clip, if hypoglycemia is causing depression, drugs like Prozac cannot possibly solve the problem.
The only way to solve its is to control blood sugar by restricting easily absorbed carbohydrates.
“Early on, when we started treating hypoglycemia, mainly because of Bill W. [ Bill Wilson, cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous ] raving in his communication to AA [ Alcoholics Anonymous ] physicians that almost all alcoholics were hypoglycemic.
“We tested and tested, and he was right.”
Dr. Larson is the author of “7 Weeks to Sobriety”, “Depression Free”, and “7 Weeks to Emotional Healing”.
Duration : 0:3:19
Gestational Diabetes/Stress During Pregnancy?
Posted by admin on Sep 30, 2009
I am almost 32 weeks pregnant…I have had by far one of the most stressful pregnancies. First, with the uncontrollable morning sickness. Second, the horrible infections that have not and will not stay away. Third, the daddy of my baby is currently in jail and facing a good amount of time. The list goes on and on… Bills, trying to pay for a huge house alone, struggling with anxiety disorder during pregnancy. The doctor is a little worried about the size of the baby… It seems to be SMALL! From stress maybe?? Now after taking my glucose test they said my results came back in the 160′s and are supposed to be under 140. I can’t stand this anymore!!!!! It’s like one thing after another, I feel like having a mental breakdown. If anyone has been in any type of situation like this or even situations similar to… please, please let me know.
Your sugar being around 160 I wouldn’t worry too much about. Yes it’s high but not too too high I’ve seen much worse.. There is nothing you can do about the diabetes so take a breath. But because of the diabetes you are more likely to have a larger baby who can’t handle it’s blood sugar after birth. The good thing is most of them adjust well pretty quickly. I’ve been taking care of a gestational diabetes baby the past 2 days at work and he adjusting well and don’t expect him to stay much longer. But his mother’s glucose was well into the 200′s. You are almost done. It seem like forever but you are almost there. Try not to stress to much because you will stress out the baby too. As for anxiety your OB should be able to give you samples of Zoloft or Cymbalta which are safe during pregnancy and will help with the anxiety and depression. You are doing everything that you can possibly do and stressing about it won’t help. It will just make you feel worse. You don’t need high blood pressure too. Calm down. Stick your feet in a hot bath and try to relax. Good Luck and hang in there.
Dr Larson hypoglycemia, her own experience
Posted by admin on Sep 22, 2009
Hypoglycemia can cause all kinds of symptoms many of which feel like a psychiatric disorder.
This according to Stephen Gyland, MD who he, himself, had suffered the devastating effects of hypoglycemia, had sought medical treatment, but was misdiagnosed and mistreated.
Hi, this is Larry Hobbs @ fatnews.com.
A few of these symptoms include:
Nervousness
Irritability
Exhaustion
Faintness, dizziness,
Depression
Vertigo,
Drowsiness
Headaches
Digestive problems
Forgetfulness
Insomnia
Constant worrying / Unprovoked anxieties
and many more which are I listed in another video on this subject.
Joan Mathews Larson, PhD, who has been treating people with addictions, anxiety and depression with natural supplements for 30 years, notes that she experienced this herself and was misdiagnosed and mistreated.
Let me read from her wonderful website, HealthRecovery.com, which, I believe, is taken from her book, “Depression-Free”.
Hypoglycemia is a word many doctors hate.
Some doctors call it a FAD disease and refuse to do the lab tests necessary to prove or disprove your suspicions.
I have never been able to figure out this block in their scientific thinking,
especially because the American Medical Association awarded its “Distinguished Medal of Honor” for the discovery of hypoglycemia to Seale Harris M.D. in 1929.
At that time the sugar intake in the United States was modest.
Now we are averaging one hundred forty pounds per year, per person and our carbohydrate sensitive (hypoglycemic) population is at an all time high.
My own interest in this metabolic disorder is experiential.
As a busy young wife and mother of three, I skipped meals and snacked on cookies and mugs of coffee all day long for energy.
Eventually I began to get “spells” of light-headedness.
I felt anxious and jumpy.
By early evening, I hardly had enough go-power to make supper before collapsing.
Finally, I saw several different physicians seeking answers.
None asked me how I was eating.
Instead I was given assorted prescriptions for tranquilizers and anti-anxiety drugs that only made me feel worse.
One internist told me I needed cortisone.
His high dose prescription sent me to the medical section of the public library for more facts.
I discovered I could expect cortisone to bestow a moon-face, a buffalo hump on my upper shoulders
and very unstable mental state.
As my original symptoms were still with me, I quickly discontinued the prescription.
At that point, this same medical doctor called my husband to advise him that, if I would not continue his prescription, I should see a psychiatrist.
Fortunately, by that time I had found a book on hypoglycemia by an endocrinologist, Dr. John Tintera.
As he described the symptoms of unstable glucose metabolism and its corresponding adrenal exhaustion, I felt like I was reading my own autobiography.
His message was clear:
no more cookies, sweet snacks, or caffeine.
Clean up my act or the medical doctors would have me drugged up and miserable.
I know how hard it is to get off refined sugars with no support.
It’s a miserable struggle!
But just at that time in my life, my husband died suddenly from a heart attack.
I knew then I had to have a clear head and some energy to support three young children alone.
The chips were down!
I found another M.D. who himself was hypoglycemic and he agreed to test me.
My glucose level soared into the diabetic range and then dropped like a roller coaster down to insulin-shock levels.
I was trying to read during this six-hour test, and after three hours I kept rereading the same lines over and over with no comprehension.
The insight that lab test gave me, saved me from becoming a life-long diabetic.
I immediately took the refined sugars out of my cupboards and my mouth.
Slowly my lightheadedness faded and my energy returned.
My shakiness and loss of concentration disappeared.
At a time when I had to work, go back to college, and raise my family simultaneously, my brain was up to the task.
It seemed like a miracle.
For 30 years, Joan Mathews Larson, PhD has been treating addiction, anxiety and depression with natural supplements in order to correct the underlying biochemical problems which cause these conditions.
Dr. Larson is the author of “7 Weeks to Sobriety”, “Depression Free”, and “7 Weeks to Emotional Healing”.
Duration : 0:6:1
If you have hypoglycemia can it cause you to have major anxiety problems ?
Posted by admin on Aug 31, 2009
I think I may have hypoglycemia and I find in the morning I could throw up after eating breakfast. But I know I have to eat it or I will be really hungry later. I can sleep through alarms easily, and become tired and light headed easily. I can get dizzy easily. I crave sugar like in juices and drink juice alot. I am constantly hungry and I also crave things like carbs whether is bread or crackers etc. I also cannot keep my hands still. It shakes, and the shaking varies from a little to almost uncontrollable. I also find if I am about to do something that creates pressure like and exam or a presentation I shake uncontrollably. As well every once and a while I want to say something but I pronounce or say the word wrong. Could this be hypoglycemia? Could it cause uncontrollable trembling and shakiness went it comes to the pressure situations? I mean I have done lots of exams before but it always occurs.
My daughter has hypoglycemia as well.. I also suffer from this. Here is the scoop on hypoglycemia. It is caused by a less-than-normal am’t of glucose in the blood because the pancreas is secreting to much insulin. or by dietary deficiency. The condition may result in weakness, headache, hunger, visual disturbances, anxiety, personality changes and if untreated,, delirium, coma and death. The treatment is the administration of glucose in orange juice by mouth if the person is conscious or in an IV glucose solution if the person in unconscious. There are meds that treat this condition and you should see your MD as soon as possible. you don’t want to let this get out of hand. I am the same way about eating in the morning, it makes me sick, but you’re right, you do get hungry. I too have problems pronouncing words, and shake, I am not as bad as you are. but please get it checked out
