Diabetic Hypoglycaemia - the accepted medical definition is the wrong way round
In years to come you can say you read it here first
For various reasons I’ve been researching diabetes and how to treat it for Mrs Awkward a lot recently as her “specialists” are making a right balls-up of it and not listening to anything she is telling them as they know best, not her who’s body it is and who knows how she is feeling and reacting to things.
Their ONLY solution is more and more drugs - which Mrs Awkward does not want to take - plus other drugs to counteract the side-effects of the first lot of drugs.
Anyway the standard definition of a diabetic “hypo” is that you have not eaten enough and that your blood glucose levels have dropped too low and you must eat to bring the blood glucose level back up “to normal”.
Having a bit of a warped way of thinking about things this hasn’t sounded right for a while and certainly something was not making sense and my spidey sense and bullshit detector have been ringing in my subconscious for a while now.
I finally figured it out what I was finding wrong with this standard definition.
A diabetic “hypo” is NOT too little food BUT is actually an insulin overdose that has lowered the blood glucose level to a level that is too low and the “antidote” is to eat to bring your blood glucose levels back to a more normal level.
Raise this with one of the diabetic “specialists” and they just look at you with a blank look on their face - best way I can explain the look is their brain has that little whirly wheel thing Windows shows while the computer tries to work things through but is getting nowhere before an error message is shown and a “does not compute” error is displayed.
But think about it for a minute or 2 and tell me I am wrong.
If you had eaten your normal amount AND had not injected that amount of insulin your blood glucose level would NOT have dropped as much as it had.
Therefore the problem is too much insulin, not too little food.
The standard “hypo” symptoms and insulin overdose/poisoning symptoms are identical.
Don’t believe me?
Look them up yourself:
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/low-blood-sugar-hypoglycaemia/
“Symptoms of low blood sugar can include:
feeling hungry
feeling dizzy
feeling anxious or irritable
sweating
shaking
tingling lips
heart palpitations
feeling tired or weak
changes in your vision such as blurred vision
feeling confused”
And here is insulin overdose:
https://www.healthline.com/health/diabetes/insulin-overdose#od-symptoms
“Symptoms of low blood sugar may include:
sweating and clamminess
chills
lightheadedness or dizziness
mild confusion
shakiness
rapid heartbeat
hunger
double vision or blurred vision
tingling in the lips or around the mouth
Severe symptoms of hypoglycemia, sometimes referred to as diabetic shock or insulin shock, include:
Spot anything in common?
Plus using insulin to kill people is an ideal way to have a higher probability of it going undetected as insulin level are NOT routinely checked.
I know this as Mrs Awkward’s specialists refused to do the required test as they do not believe in insulin resistance nor metabolic disease.
Mrs Awkward has “hypos” but when she checks her blood glucose level they are not low but very high, anything from 22-30 mmol/L but other than NOT having low blood glucose levels she has all the other symptoms.
This shouted out 2 thing to me:
She is insulin resistant as the body is not reacting to it any more so it is not lowering blood glucose levels as it should
She has high insulin levels meaning she is overdosing and/or being poisoned
So against doctor’s recommendation and orders I paid for a fasting insulin level test and sent it off to the USA for analysis (I’ve since found a UK company that does them).
Unsurprisingly, to me anyway, it came back with a high reading - not dangerously high but certainly above normal readings and with the comment on the report:
Lab Comments
INSULIN (fasting) is within normal range, but higher than the optimal range of 2-6, suggesting an evolving insulin resistance. Insulin resistance predisposes to significantly increased lifetime risk for developing more serious health conditions such as metabolic syndrome (high blood pressure, excessive weight gain in the waist, elevated blood lipids), diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Stress reduction, exercise, proper diet (reducing consumption of excessive carbohydrates), and balancing hormones within normal physiological ranges are important for prevention of insulin resistance/metabolic syndrome and long term risks to health.
Which tallies with what her specialist told me I was talking rubbish about and they knew best.
This means that her treatment needs to be revised and tweaked so that she improves and if all goes well she can come off insulin in the next 2 years or so.
Did her specialist want to know?
Not even willing to listen.
But the strange thing is I have found out in recent weeks that insulin levels begin to rise 5-10 years BEFORE blood glucose levels start to rise so regular insulin level tests will show a problem beginning well in advance of any sort of medical intervention and medication being require and that lifestyle and dietary changes started back then would mean that the problem does not become a serious medical problem in 99% of people who are now developing diabetes.
BUT there is no money in this early intervention and the lifestyle changes cost nothing more than a little bit of tweaking how you eat, some exercise, maybe a gym membership and some supplements.
Certainly a lot cheaper and with less profit than lots and lots of medications for life from pharmaceutical companies.
So why are insulin level tests NOT routinely carried out?
All I can think of is money and profits.
Anyone think I’m wrong?
Plus if you want me to post some of what I have been looking at, reading and watching in recent months let me know in the comments and I’ll do a post when I get chance.
On a slight tangent but pharma and profit linked, a couple of years ago our Burmese cat needed taking to the vets due to inflammed gums, a “common” inbreeding caused issue apparently. Of course the solution was an injection, steroid based which initially seemed to dramatically reduce the symptoms. But noticeably she would drink much more water and her fur seemed to lose lustre. After a couple of these 3 monthly ( expensive but insured) injections, one day the cat was found in a comatose state and rushed back to the vet where diabetes was diagnosed. We then began a twice daily routine of injecting our feline with insulin which the vet has stated would be for the rest of her life! ( also expensive and insured)
Every month or so we had to take her at more expense for a glucose monitor test where we would drop her off in the morning fed and they would periodically monitor her levels throughout the day. Each time they would say she is fine but recommended a slight increase in the amount of insulin given.
Fortunately I was getting more sceptical for various reasons as the weeks went by and did not increased the insulin dosage as advised and then after a while purposely reduced the injections to once a day(We had coincidentally stopped the steroid injection for a natural approach)
The next glucose curve visit the vet very surprised announced that our cat had miraculously recovered from her diabetes! Something she had only ever experienced once before!
I’m no vet or doctor but (but particularly because of the events of the last four years)I am convinced that many medical interventions are knowingly administered to cause a cascade of other profitable illnesses. With the veterinary industry being no different. Although I am open to an explanation if someone so cares?
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