At what point does it get easier?

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At what point does it get easier?

Although reading this link below on the impacts of glutumine on glucose levels (as well the great post from Eve11 below) I think I'm just creating havoc on my blood sugar balance and possibly worsening a more serious underlying problem. Feeling a bit light- headed and shaky today, but not as bad as yesterday as I've started taking more glutamine again...so, not sure really


Glutamine and Your Blood Sugar | LIVESTRONG.COM


Effects on Blood Sugar
Glutamine plays a critical role in the control of blood glucose, or blood sugar. When levels of glucose are low, a condition called hypoglycemia, your body converts glutamine in the liver and kidneys into glucose to help bring levels back in balance. If you’re diabetic, however, you have an abnormal glutamine metabolism in which excess amounts of glutamine are broken down into glucose. This in turn leads to higher levels of the pancreatic hormone glucagon, which raises blood sugar.


Eve 11
https://www.mywayout.org/community/f2...rks-33457.html

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At what point does it get easier?

STL

I'm glad you're dealing with a doctor about all of this. Diabetics (high glucose) are very susceptible to rebound hypoglycemia (low glucose with the weakness, shakes, etc.). A key element of all of this is having very unstable blood sugars. In the short run, the low blood sugar is very dangerous. The high blood sugar is bad for you over the long run.

For both getting your blood sugar and triglycerides down, I hope your doctor suggests reducing dietary carbohydrates, especially sugars and carbs that are metabolized to sugar quickly. Both of those blood values are very responsive to dietary changes.

Your brain can metabolize L-glut in place of sugar so if it was doing that and then you suddenly reduced your intake, I suppose that could have made you feel like you did the other day if, at the same time, your blood sugar was low.

Anyway, it is important for you to get all of this figured out. I hope you are feeling better today.

NS

Cross post: I'm not sure all of that Livestrong article is correct about what is going on. But, like Turnagain, I'm not a medical doctor and don't want to be telling you what to do other than to get medical assistance. Take care.

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At what point does it get easier?

So I just hit a wall, at work.

No, I didn?t relapse, or get passed over for a promotion. I literally just walked right into the frickin? wall in my office because I saw 2 of them and misjudged the distance. I called my wife to pick me up from work because I don?t think I should drive. Couldn?t get a blood test appt. from my doc until tomorrow afternoon, and those results usually take a few days. Thanks NS, for your thoughts? you guys are probably right on the glucose thing.. It felt like withdrawal symptoms at first, now it?s more just dizziness and confusion ?I have more glutamine at home I?m going to take tonight, as well as get some rest, water and healthy food. Guess I deserve this after punishing my body for so long, but I still rather it be this than the drinking?

[Turnagain]

At what point does it get easier?

Hi STL -

It's a good thing you are able to get into a doc to get some testing done to get to the bottom of this. I don't know if you're in a position to be completely honest with your doctor about your history with alcohol - but the more your doc knows, the better chance you have of finding out what's up. NS brings up a great point about the rebound effect of blood sugar levels. I had a doc who warned me about that from the other end explaining that my low blood sugar could 'boomerang' around to become high blood sugar once my cells become completely resistant to insulin. I am still dealing with the consequences of what alcohol did to my metabolism and blood sugar levels. BUT - I can take comfort in knowing that the damage is no longer continuing.

You don't deserve any of your symptoms. You didn't choose to become addicted to alcohol - a toxic, carcinogenic, addictive, legal drug. You ARE choosing to break free of this horrid addiction and for that - you deserve understanding, encouragement and the medical support to help you deal with the consequences of detoxing your system of this drug. Bravo for holding tight to your resolve to no longer drink...no matter what.

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At what point does it get easier?

STL

You can pick up a blood glucose meter and strips at any drugstore (and later, get the strips more cheaply off Amazon). Check your glucose when you're feeling this way - it might be extremely low and it is important for you to get it up with a little juice or something like that.

I think it would be a good idea for everyone to have a meter- there are a huge number of undiagnosed diabetics who are ruining their health unnecessarily because they don't know. And just because a person's fasting value is ok (what gets measured annually by the doctor), what happens to you after you eat is very important and can go wrong long before the fasting values.

If you eat sugar/carbs and your blood sugar goes way up, your body will secrete insulin in response. If you're diabetic, the amounts won't always line up right and your blood sugar will go too low. So, if this is happening an hour or so after you eat, that might be what is going on.

Good luck, NS

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At what point does it get easier?

The Gift of AL

Good Morning and congrats to everyone also fighting temptation and staying AF?

So I had to be picked up from work yesterday after having some dizziness, blurred vision, bumping into walls, etc. over the last few days ( I posted some of this yesterday below). I fainted at home last night after dinner, so we went to the emergency care center.

https://www.mywayout.org/community/f1...ml#post1693256

They suspect from some tests that I am now pre-diabetic (which did lead me to be at least mildly hypoglycemic..thx Turn/ NS) with a high chance of becoming fully diabetic. I have an appt. with my doc the evening to run other tests. They also suggested that my liver appeared to be shot or close to it, but that was not that much of a surprise. I?m glad I have been able to stop drinking this time for this long?just wish I had stopped earlier. That?s the beautiful thing about AL..it?s the gift that keeps on giving?.