Q & A archive—Reactive Hypoglycemia

Question: My wife has spells where she gets too tired to function, can't stay awake, slurring speech, throwing up, and her knees hurt very bad, plus headache. This usually lasts for 2 or 3 days, accompanied by low blood sugar of 60 something and pressure of 86 over 58(average). The rest of the time, she is very quick-tempered, does not sleep very well at all, very minor little troubles set her off on an explosion for quite a few hours. She has long-lasting headaches for long periods of time. She is always very tired. She is 40 years old( everything is gone, but the ovaries). She weighs about 108 pounds. She smokes and drinks about 6 to 8 cokes a day and is always eating candy. I am losing my mind and the doctors are not helping! She says it is stress, but, my God! We are torn up here!

Answer: You won’t get much help from the average orthodox medical doctor on this one. Symptoms like this are very typical of Reactive Hypoglycemia and most doctors don’t put much credence in this diagnosis and try to treat it with nerve pills and sleeping pills and antidepressants and this approach doesn’t work.

Treatment for Reactive Hypoglycemia is very successful IF the patient has the desire to get well and is willing to change her eating and drinking habits. It takes some will power but if they are truly anxious to get well, they can do it. The first thing I would suggest is to have her read my book to learn the general philosophy of health and particularly the chapter on Reactive Hypoglycemia. I can tell you with certainty that no patient can overcome this kind of a problem and continue to drink soft drinks and eat candy and sweets (including food sweetened with artificial sweeteners.) If such a patient will give up all sweets for two months and eat plenty of good foods such as eggs and meat and fresh fruits and vegetables, they will see a drastic improvement in their health In fact, it won’t take more than a couple weeks to see a big difference. The big problem is resisting the sugar addiction.

Look at some of the questions and answers on this subject on my web site also. If you are anywhere near this area, I would be glad to see her personally if she really wants to get well. There could be some other problems involved here also but the above would have to be done in any event. Good luck.

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