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CelesteMary
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Hello, hoping to get some advice on how to keep feeling well after seven pregnancies, twins who are 23 months and a newborn.
I had to have a c-section these last two pregnancies and my newborn is only a week old.
Over the years I have had to eat better and better and better. Now I am down to just about having to eat everything in it's natural form, no processed anything, needing to eat many small meals it seems or else I get light headed. The most drastic is when I weaned the twins pretty much cold turkey a little over a year ago.
I've had my sugar tested and all tests come out fine, but it's almost as though I feel hypoglocemic or am I just really depleted? I have upped my vitamin intake trying to add all the good I can, but still if I don't eat a good meal, I feel faint.
I'm praying for it to be this season in my life with giving a lot of my body to babies and maybe not enough calories? Worry about losing baby weight later?
Anyone else been through this? I would love to know as it's starting to make me crazy! Thanks and God bless to you all.
Celeste
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Have you had your blood pressure checked, Celeste? Low blood pressure can make you feel faint. And...even though you may check your b/p and it seems fine, b/p can fluctuate to extremes very quickly depending on the person and their circumstances/general health.
You know how sometimes if you've been sitting down and you stand up quickly the room starts to spin...that's blood pressure taking a nose dive.
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It sounds a lot like what a friend has.. you might want to check into "reactive hypoglycemia".. from what she has said.. it's really tricky to pin down.. and going on a low-carb diet is what helped her most.. basing the type and amount of carbs on how she feels after them.
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JodieLyn wrote:
| It sounds a lot like what a friend has.. you might want to check into "reactive hypoglycemia".. from what she has said.. it's really tricky to pin down.. and going on a low-carb diet is what helped her most.. basing the type and amount of carbs on how she feels after them. |
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I was thinking about mentioning this, too.
I had no idea how much of a problem this was for me until I put myself on a low-carb diet. I REALLY don't like using the word *diet*...but, I suppose that's what it was. I didn't avoid anything EXCEPT for those things my body would process as sugar. That ends up being: carbs. And of course regular sugar is out. So....no soda, no desserts, no rice, no pasta, no bread, no potatoes...nothing at all that is white, processed, carb -- nothing that the body processes as sugar.
And to be clear - there are no restrictions on things like butter, good fats/oils, meats, almost all veg. So....there is definitely NO GOING HUNGRY when doing this. You still get calories - the goal is to sort of hit your insulin reset button.
This seems extreme, and it is, but I only had to do this for a month or so, after that a simple maintenance level means just common sense healthy eating and avoiding regular sugary stuff like soft drinks and too many sweets (but even those I can eat in moderation and still be fine).
What happens is that over the years your body sees an ever increasing amount of sugar (whether it's refined or comes in as pasta or a sweet potato or fruit...so you might be eating healthy and still have this problem). The insulin receptors on your cells begin churning out an ever-increasing amount of insulin to deal with this....and after a number of years your body must send out a whopping amount of insulin to deal with any small amount of sugar....and you begin to have all sorts of problems. One of them is reactive hypoglycemia.
Our family history of diabetes along with my own trouble with hypoglycemia prompted me to look into this and I've never felt better (though this type of nutritional approach has many other benefits that I've read about - weight loss, lowering of cholesterol, hormone regulation, fertility assistance, etc). I have no desire to debate the evils of low-carb dieting, so thank you all for sparing me that!  Just wanted to share some of the legitimate physiological reasons that a common-sense diet which excludes those foods the body processes as sugar (commonly known as a low-carb diet) can offer....especially as it relates to something like reactive hypoglycemia.
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Thanks ladies. I checked it out and do seem to have the sumptoms that best matches reactive hypoglycemia.
I have been to the doctor about this a couple of times, but I will work with my diet to see what's what. I guess gone are the years of putting any old fuel into my body to keep it going.
Now I really need to think about it. Thanks again for your replies.
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