werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) (01/04/86)
> In a reactive hypoglucemic, the blood sugar starts out normal, > then shoots way up, then comes crashing down, and several hours later > finally levels out. When the blood sugar is high, you have a lot of > energy and feel great, when it is dropping, you feel tired, have headaches, > and are very iritible(sp?). A good good test should have samples > at least every half hour, every 15 minutes would be better, and should > last for six hours, not just three. The morons who did my test > refused to do it properly, so the numbers didn't show a problem, > but the symtoms were definitely there. (Imagine the nerve of a > mere patient thinking that they might possibly know something!) [Spelling = irritable] I sense an attitude problem here. What is the situation: we have non-specific subjective symptoms, which some people might even consider a variant of normal and an "alleged" disease which is billed as extremely rare by some and as affecting 10% of the USA population by others. Please note that most who advocate its commonness cannot prove it one way or the other, because they are not licensed to draw blood. However in order to detect this "disease" one has to undergo a labor intensive mildly invasive test that probably runs a few hundred dollars. When this is done, however, the results are inevitably normal. However, look at the above, Snoopy refuses to believe the normal results. Look, whatever makes you happy, no amount of convincing will talk you or any true believer out of the diagnosis. And as long as your treatment (eliminating Sugar), although distasteful (Pun intended) does no harm, go for it. But don't advocate your paranoia (and a little paranoia is a healthy thing) as the basis of Public health policy. -- Craig Werner !philabs!aecom!werner "Why is it that half the calories is twice the price?"