Why do people label hypoglycemia as bipolar?
Question by mcguirefolks: Why do people label hypoglycemia as bipolar?
I have hypoglycemia and yesterday someone labeled me as bipolar. It’s amazing how people with the same health problems label each other so quickly. My question is, why does hypoglycemia and other health problems get labeled as bipolar? In Connie Bennet’s book “Sugar Shock” http://www.sugarshock.com, she points out that hypoglycemia is a “Great Imitator” and mimics diseases and conditions.
* Bipolar disorder
* Schizophrenia
* Neurosis
* Migraines
* Parkinson’s syndrome
* Chronic bronchial asthma
* Paroxysmal tachycardia (rapid heartbeat)
* Rheumatoid arthritis
* Cerebral arteriosclerosis (hardening of the brain’s arteries)
* Menopause
* Mental retardation
* Alcoholism
* Hyperactive disorder — and even
* Senility
Most of the time, the symptoms are just our bodies crying out for better nutrition, to eat less sugar and junk food and to take a good supplement. I am able to control my hypoglycemia with a good calcium source. It makes all the difference in the world.
It’s sickening to see innocent people taking drugs as the remedy, only to add on a host of terrible side affects and a dependency and drug overuse because invariably they need more and more to control their symptoms. (Somebody’s making a heap of money on all those drugs!) Think nutrition, exercise and prayer!
Best answer:
Answer by Einstein’s Dog
You make it sound like the medical industry was designed to take advantage of those in weakness. Like the medical and pharmaceutical industry needs more sick folks to make more money. You also make it sound as if we often put others responsible for our own health instead of being proactive with our fitness.
Hypoglycemia is the clinical syndrome that results from low blood sugar. The symptoms of hypoglycemia can vary from person to person, as can the severity. Classically, hypoglycemia is diagnosed by a low blood sugar with symptoms that resolve when the sugar level returns to the normal range.
The foods we now eat have less nutrition and we have more creature comforts that give us more time to earn more money. The virtues of this are countless and meaning less. I now have three remote controls to juggle when I sit down to eat my Big Mac to watch the Fox news channel that gave me the idea to but my happy meal that will do me no good other than to make my butt bigger and keep my blood sugar levels down for the moment.
Who can I make responsible for this? Maybe if I sue someone I won’t have to play the lottery for the rest of my life in the pursuit of my dreams.
Wait here. I’ll be back, I have to go jogging. Just five miles, back soon. Go eat something!
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Anna C says:
I thought hypoglycemia was what happened when a diabetic has dangerously low blood sugar?
And they feel very tired/shaky and lightheaded, and if it’s not sorted fast then they can collapse and go into a coma.
But you described what sounds like a chronic disease. Am I thinking of something else?