Hypoglycemia

After I gave birth to Ella, I decided I should probably invest in some life insurance.  A nurse came to the house and did a full workup.  When she took my blood pressure she expressed her concern.  I have always had low blood pressure.  My dentist always comments on how low it is, but none of my family practioner's have ever said anything about it so I didn't worry too much.  The nurse asked me if I ever become dizzy or feel faint when I stand up.  My answer was all of the time.  She told me to go see my doctor immediately and that I should never go anywhere without some candy or cookies. 

I took what she said very seriously, but I had also just had a baby.  When you're pregnant, your blood pressure normally goes down and my dizzy spells began when I became pregnant.  Granted, they seem to have become worse post-partum but I had lost a lot of blood, labor is a tramatic experience and I had just spent the last 39 weeks going to my OBGYN.  It's safe to say I wasn't in a hurry to make an appointment with another doctor.  However, when my blood test came back, there was one abnormality - my glucose level was low.  I was advised to take the results to my doctor.  This time, I did as I was told. 

My doctor said I might be hypoglycemic but she didn't think my glucose level was nearly as bad as the insurance company had frightened me into believing.  She ran some more tests which came back fine, but of course I wasn't having any dizziness when I was there.  She said that I had just had a baby and to take it easy and that I would be fine.  Well, that was over 3 years ago and I kind of forgot about it.  Well, I didn't really forget since I still get dizzy from time to time - but I pushed it to the back of my head.

Today it came roaring back.  I woke up this morning with a bad headache.  I felt incredibly nauseous and I was famished.  I sat down to eat breakfast right away for fear that I was going to pass out.  I felt better after breakfast but my headache persisted all day.  I noticed that before I had lunch and dinner that I was getting really annoyed with Jason and the kids.  Everyone was severly irritating me and I knew it was pretty irrational.  (Nothing's more fun than being completely pissed at people for no reason and knowing it!)  But after I ate, my annoyance subsided and I didn't want to punch everyone in the face anymore.  Yay!

As the day has progressed, so has my headache.  It has gone from bad to severe.  Being the self-sufficient diagnoser that I am, I googled my symptoms.  Guess what??!!  They are ALL signs of hypoglycemia!!  I'm 100% sure that I have this.  Everything matches.  All of it.  Now I have to make another appt.  The only problem is, hypoglycemia is very hard to diagnose because you have to draw blood while you are having the symptoms which you can't plan for.  Hopefully I won't have to fast for 72 hours in a hospital!  On the bright side, if this is the worst thing I ever get, I will consider myself very lucky!