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Dizzy All The Time...

Sweetfudge

By Sweetfudge
in Coping with Celiac Disease

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Sweetfudge Community Regular
Sweetfudge
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Title pretty much sums it up. I'm dizzy all the time. Sitting here at the computer. When I stand up, I get really bad vertigo. Sometimes feel on the verge of passing out. This is really frustrating. I've been hypo for nearly 15 years, and been good at dealing with it...maybe it's this diet? I've been struggling with celiac disease, finding good food, filling food. But I thought I was doing okay. Just don't really feel like it.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

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marciab
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My hypoglycemia is out of control too. I've switched from eating raw nuts and something sweet (Bob's candy canes :rolleyes: ) when I would feel it get too low to pb and crackers and it is helping for now.

I have been through so many changes while healing on this diet, that I am hoping this is just one more. And this too shall pass. :)

I think part of mine is that I am soo much more active now than I have been in years. I don't really understand the biology behind it, but I know we burn calories and need more glucose when we are more active.

Sorry I don't have a definitive answer for you, but I figured I would comiserate ... marcia

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Ursa Major
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I have adrenal fatigue, and it can result in being dizzy all the time. That's the first thing my naturopath asks me every time I see him (now that he is treating the adrenals and the low thyroid), "How is your dizziness, has it improved?" Because, apparently, that is one of the most obvious signs of adrenal fatigue.

And no, I am still dizzy all the time, too. It takes a while to improve, apparently, especially if you're in as bad a shape as I am in (with me it's progressed to adrenal burnout, it seems).

marciab Enthusiast
marciab
Posted

Ursula,

Are you hypoglycemic too ? If this keeps up, I would like to learn more about adrenal fatigue. Marcia

BTW, my symptom that my blood sugar is low is shakiness more than dizziness.

Sweetfudge Community Regular
Sweetfudge
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When my blood sugar is low, I get shaky too. And headachey.

My hourly snack has been raw almonds and fruit...maybe I'll have to change that.

I am going to have to look into adrenal fatigue. That could very well be it. Especially when I eat all the things I usually eat to calm my hypoglycemia, and it doesn't work. :(

tl2277 Newbie
tl2277
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My hypoglycemia was much worse before the diet, and for spells as I was getting started (Been gluten-free since February 2006). For a while nothing I ate would last and I had a very hard time bringing my levels back up. I think it is that while we are still sick or still healing, we have a harder time digesting and absorbing food, especially proteins. Take out many of the products that give us sugars (breads, pastas, etc), even though they are the bad kind, and you compound the problem.

Nuts are notoriously hard to digest (and that had become my staple snack at first). As a replacement snack, a cooworker with Crohns suggested using boiled egg whites and that seems to help. So you may just need to experiment with foods and see what sticks with you and what doesn't. You also might want to try taking an enzyme pill when you eat to help you break down and absorb the proteins.

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CatandCanary
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Title pretty much sums it up. I'm dizzy all the time. Sitting here at the computer. When I stand up, I get really bad vertigo. Sometimes feel on the verge of passing out. This is really frustrating. I've been hypo for nearly 15 years, and been good at dealing with it...maybe it's this diet? I've been struggling with celiac disease, finding good food, filling food. But I thought I was doing okay. Just don't really feel like it.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

Title pretty much sums it up. I'm dizzy all the time. Sitting here at the computer. When I stand up, I get really bad vertigo. Sometimes feel on the verge of passing out. This is really frustrating. I've been hypo for nearly 15 years, and been good at dealing with it...maybe it's this diet? I've been struggling with celiac disease, finding good food, filling food. But I thought I was doing okay. Just don't really feel like it.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

Don't know if this helps but when I get dehydrated the same thing happens, I get dizzy and feel bad. I started eating the Pedialyte Freezer Pops and it seems to take care of the problem. I have a hard time beleiving I am dehydrated because I am drinking all day long, it could be the electrolytes. Maybe it will help you.

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Ursa Major Collaborator
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Yes, I am hypoglycemic, too. But that seems to have gotten much better with taking all the foods I am intolerant to out of my diet.

marciab Enthusiast
marciab
Posted

Ursula,

Bummer !! I don't think I can handle eliminating any more foods at this point. But, who knows what I will be motivated to do after the holidays. :P Marcia

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