Posted by floatingbridge on August 3, 2011, at 11:35:27
In reply to And how can I forget, posted by Dinah on August 3, 2011, at 10:29:08
> Blood glucose and insulin resistance. My endocrinologist says I have a *very* extreme glucose response to stress.
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> Even hypoglycemic unawareness, which I also seem to have. Although if I understand correctly, that should be a symptom of the opposite cortisol problem.This is something I don't understand.. Though you have mentioned your issues, and so many medications affect glucose response ( if that is a working term.). Diabetes is on
both sides of my family.....But there is the opposite, isn't there? My friend does not make enough insulin. Stress exacerbates this and underlies
her particular form of presenting depression....Sometime I feel like I am working on some sort of medical degree.... The endocrine system is very, umm, complicated and under-understood. At least in practical medicine.
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