Hi all,
I was diagnosed with cc about six months ago and have being trying to get a handle on it (with very limited medical assistance) since then. The GI symptoms I have are lower right quadrant discomfort and light sticky stool once or twice a day, so nothing compared to some of you. But thrown into that I have neurological symptoms that generally occur after eating (anything), I came across something call "reactive hypoglycemia", which kind of covers what I experience, I'm not a diabetic. So the question is is sugar the enemy trigger or am I overly sensitive to insulin or am I producing too much of the stuff causing a glucose crash.
I've recently stared to tweak my diet, reducing alcohol(which wasn't a lot to start with), cutting out coffee and gluten( which is hard).
I know I'll have to visit my doctor to have it checked out but I get the impression that he's a bit stumped over my condition, he's treating me for stress(although I don't feel stressed) with an ssri and I think if I throw this at him I think he'll think I'm becoming a hypochondriac and not someone who's desperate to understand and improve their condition.
I've had the usual neurological tests including an MRI so they know there is nothing structurally wrong with my brain.
I've also had colonoscopy, abdominal CT and Ultra Sound and the usual round of blood tests (normal except for a slightly higher than average liver function).
Thanks again.
reactive hypoglycemia
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Hi,
Neurological symptoms are very common with gluten sensitivity, so that makes them common with MC, and many of us here have to deal with them. For some people, the neurological symptoms are the primary mode of reaction, and GI issues are either minimized or missing altogether. Here's a link to a medical reference describing some of the neurological issues associated with gluten sensitivity, written by the leading researcher in the field, Dr. Mario Hadjivassiliou, who is a doctor located in the U.K.:
http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/72/5/560.full
When our gut is inflamed, we tend to lose the ability to properly digest many types of sugar. So yes, sugar is the enemy (for most of us who have MC). I don't have diabetes either, but I have occasionally experienced hypoglycemia when my diet was compromised (cross-contaminated with gluten).
Your doctor is playing with fire by prescribing an SSRI for you when you already have a diagnosis of MC, and apparently he doesn't even realize it. SSRIs are a somewhat common cause of MC. Like many medications, they can not only trigger a flare, but for some people, they can cause the disease to develop in the first place.
Tex
Neurological symptoms are very common with gluten sensitivity, so that makes them common with MC, and many of us here have to deal with them. For some people, the neurological symptoms are the primary mode of reaction, and GI issues are either minimized or missing altogether. Here's a link to a medical reference describing some of the neurological issues associated with gluten sensitivity, written by the leading researcher in the field, Dr. Mario Hadjivassiliou, who is a doctor located in the U.K.:
http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/72/5/560.full
When our gut is inflamed, we tend to lose the ability to properly digest many types of sugar. So yes, sugar is the enemy (for most of us who have MC). I don't have diabetes either, but I have occasionally experienced hypoglycemia when my diet was compromised (cross-contaminated with gluten).
Your doctor is playing with fire by prescribing an SSRI for you when you already have a diagnosis of MC, and apparently he doesn't even realize it. SSRIs are a somewhat common cause of MC. Like many medications, they can not only trigger a flare, but for some people, they can cause the disease to develop in the first place.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.