Posted by medlib on October 25, 2000, at 2:34:12
In reply to Re: Fainting, posted by Racer on October 24, 2000, at 22:11:13
> > Hope your internist is a good diagnostician and is able to pinpoint what's wrong quickly. If she orders blood work, having it done fasting (yeah, I know it's a pain) and including a CBC would rule out anemia or blood sugar problems as possible causes. Please keep us posted.
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> Actually, this wouldn't necessarily rule out glycemic trouble. My problems only became apparent with a four hour GTT, fasting glucose didn't show much of anything at all. The GTT did show strange results, though it was some years later that the full extent of the problem became clear. (It took a carefully controlled diet and exercise program, and faithful recording of food/exercise/blood sugar readings on a good glucometer to show everything that was happening.)
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> Regardless, I'm with you on sending noa good wishes.
Racer--You're right, of course. That comment was a last minute (clearly, not-thought-out) afterthought, and I shouldn't have been so glib, or so general. I was thinking more of frank diabetes than of hypoglycemia or other less clear-cut blood sugar abnormalities. For someone who passed out in the 4th hour of a 6 hour GTT at age 13 (and had 2 hypoglycemic kids), it's a puzzling error, to say the least.
Thanks for the heads up!---medlib
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