I been dealing with a lot of hypoglyemic symptoms due to prolonged valium withdrawl and adrenal fatigue issues. Additionally my low testosterone + estrogen may be leaving me with poor blood sugar control.
I honestly cannot think straight most of the time, on and off anxiety, bad reactions to many foods I eat especially fruits (hyperinsulin production causing lower BS rather than higher??),
What supplements, herbals, or common meds may help reliably increase my blood sugar or help modulate it? It's not as simple for me as just eating a sugary food. I have horrendous reactions and feel so dreadfully tired, mentally I feel in a stupor, and sometimes strong anxiety manifests, cold body chill sensations after eating apples etc. I really can't think properly and my memory/recall is usually so poor. I also develop some very severe anger and irritability. One of the biggest issues I have is that it becomes very difficult to process information. Reading even becomes difficult at times. Lot of poor energy and fatigue as well. Blurry vision and slow info processing especially after any extended physical activity such as grocery shopping. I absolutely loathe doing so. I end up having to lay down for a while to recover. My mind slows down to such a crawl it feels like a slug. An important factor to note is that on and off I have intense hunger sensations, even after having just eaten a full meal, usually this is worse if I eat anything with high sugar content. Just constantlyyyy unbearably hungry so often if I do. And I keep developing this severe acidic belly burning sensations. Not sure what this relates to. I been having it more now when reducing my Vortioxetine. Maybe that relates to IBS rather than blood sugar. I am not certain. If it is IBS I would appreciate any advice on the matter. I been having those problems for many months.
Gabapentin helps to some degree but I don't know what else to take. Makes me feel less in a stupor yet ironically it's a bit of a dumbening medication.
I take about 40mcg of Chromium these past few days. Is ALA worth it? Have some on me. Magnesium has some rapid effects but very unreliably causes me to have better or worse cognition. It's very inconsistent. Sometimes improves my mood so much and lets me think at a more rapid pace but many other times leaves me so apathetic and even more anhedonic than usual possibly due to dopamine antagonism.
I need a way to regulate and balance my blood sugar most of all, because sometimes my symptoms are very clear high blood sugar, other times low.
Edited by AlexCanada, 11 May 2015 - 02:27 PM.
