I feel like my blood pressure drops and I get really dizzy, any time I don't eat for long stretches. Was just wondering if this happens to anyone else.
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If you haven't eaten for many hours and begin to feel dizzy, wobbly, sweating, jittery or confused, these might be symptoms of low blood glucose (low blood sugar). It means your blood sugars are low because you haven't eaten. Your body requires steady doses of food, such as complex carbs, which it uses as energy. I am diabetic and if I forget to eat every 3 to 4 hours, I get those symptoms. Ask your doctor to check your blood sugar for diabetes. But don't load up on complex carbs: too much carb foods can be as bad as eating too few in a day. Why are you going for long stretches of time between meals? Is your pouch having issues with food?
I had a diabetes scare a few years a go, they saw an increase of sugar in my urine. It was the pred. They didnt connect the two for a week. I will get checked for diabetes again. Though I don't think that's it. I'm considered underweight. I seem to just gain a lot of flab under my arms and legs and I don't gain weight on the scale. It's weird. Yeah I'm having pouch issues and really just tired of going going and going, even taking 8 loperamide per day I'm going 8 times. I'm too tired for this. Most of its diarrhea no matter what I eat.
Have you tried Metamucil? In my early days I used the orange powder. It helped solidify things. I used slightly less water than recommended, and drank it fast before it could gel in the glass. Try to eat something, a complex carb, every few hours. Oatmeal and banana, whole wheat bread with tuna, hummus with peeled cucumber, if you can tolerate, so you don't get dizzy.
Yeah I tried that. I have tried everything now.
I will try those foods, thanks.