OK, trying to identify if I have diabetes as quickly as I can.
At certain points in the day I have illogical self-destructive thoughts, can't think clearly or get anything done and/or get rushed / panicky or shaky, dropping things. These behaviors go away once I'm feeling better.
Been seeing therapist and psychiatrist about this and it seems like unipolar mood swings, basically Bipolar minus the manic swing. I said, "Hey, could hypoglycemia explain it?" and my psych basically said "Actually yeah, let's get you tested".
So the day of my fast, before I had my blood drawn, I was in a bad mood and overate at 8PM that night. At about 8 AM next day when the blood was drawn I asked the nurse if that ruined the fast and she said it was OK. I came back negative for hypoglycemia after the fast.
Now here's the thing. I went on a mood stabilizer (abilify) that is not supposed to have this side effect, and changed something else. Some mood swings went away, but as I took the drug a sense of constant restlessness crept up on me until my work felt like torture and I couldn't enjoy anything. I blamed the abilify, stopped taking it. It's supposed to go 0out of your system in 3 days, instead, slowly over time the restlessness went away, now it is completely gone. Being antagonized this long after discontinuation is not a documented side effect of abilify, the point of trying it was that I could get off it fast if I needed to.
My doc has given me a mood stablizer scrip for a different drug and said, "Take it if you feel like I need it." I am a bit afraid to take another mood stabilizer because of how seriously the previous one hurt me.
Anyway, I'm actually very stable. Young, male, great job, management candidate, I try really hard to just not say much when my mood blows out but it is a huge burden on me and one day I could slip up and blow my whole life out (like say something just horrible to my girlfriend that I don't mean or feel at all once my mood is healthy again).
I'm thinking before I try another mood stabilizer, in light of my hypoglycemia test looking shady and how badly another mood stabilizer went, of buying a Glucose meter and checking my blood sugar when I feel bad.
It does seem like if my mood goes to crap eating something and taking a break helps a lot. And I get the sense that my mood tends to go bad at specific times of the day.
I have a few questions:
-I want to try to eat a "hypoglycemic diet" even if I dont have hypoglycemia to play it safe for now. It's probably better than what I'm doing anyway. But I just cant (due to time, energy, other constraints) cook for myself right now, but I can afford slightly expensive groceries and to eat out once a day. Can we pull something together with that?
-I'm going to get a cheap blood sugar meter and check my blood sugar regularly, especially when I crash mentally. Are the cheap meters reliable? If it's falling outside normal ranges I am going to take that to the doctor.
-Since I'm gonna do that, what is a decent way to prick your finger, will they sell you a needle? I have a high pain tolerance but prefer convenience and no mess...
Sorry for the wall of text. Thanks!
At certain points in the day I have illogical self-destructive thoughts, can't think clearly or get anything done and/or get rushed / panicky or shaky, dropping things. These behaviors go away once I'm feeling better.
Been seeing therapist and psychiatrist about this and it seems like unipolar mood swings, basically Bipolar minus the manic swing. I said, "Hey, could hypoglycemia explain it?" and my psych basically said "Actually yeah, let's get you tested".
So the day of my fast, before I had my blood drawn, I was in a bad mood and overate at 8PM that night. At about 8 AM next day when the blood was drawn I asked the nurse if that ruined the fast and she said it was OK. I came back negative for hypoglycemia after the fast.
Now here's the thing. I went on a mood stabilizer (abilify) that is not supposed to have this side effect, and changed something else. Some mood swings went away, but as I took the drug a sense of constant restlessness crept up on me until my work felt like torture and I couldn't enjoy anything. I blamed the abilify, stopped taking it. It's supposed to go 0out of your system in 3 days, instead, slowly over time the restlessness went away, now it is completely gone. Being antagonized this long after discontinuation is not a documented side effect of abilify, the point of trying it was that I could get off it fast if I needed to.
My doc has given me a mood stablizer scrip for a different drug and said, "Take it if you feel like I need it." I am a bit afraid to take another mood stabilizer because of how seriously the previous one hurt me.
Anyway, I'm actually very stable. Young, male, great job, management candidate, I try really hard to just not say much when my mood blows out but it is a huge burden on me and one day I could slip up and blow my whole life out (like say something just horrible to my girlfriend that I don't mean or feel at all once my mood is healthy again).
I'm thinking before I try another mood stabilizer, in light of my hypoglycemia test looking shady and how badly another mood stabilizer went, of buying a Glucose meter and checking my blood sugar when I feel bad.
It does seem like if my mood goes to crap eating something and taking a break helps a lot. And I get the sense that my mood tends to go bad at specific times of the day.
I have a few questions:
-I want to try to eat a "hypoglycemic diet" even if I dont have hypoglycemia to play it safe for now. It's probably better than what I'm doing anyway. But I just cant (due to time, energy, other constraints) cook for myself right now, but I can afford slightly expensive groceries and to eat out once a day. Can we pull something together with that?
-I'm going to get a cheap blood sugar meter and check my blood sugar regularly, especially when I crash mentally. Are the cheap meters reliable? If it's falling outside normal ranges I am going to take that to the doctor.
-Since I'm gonna do that, what is a decent way to prick your finger, will they sell you a needle? I have a high pain tolerance but prefer convenience and no mess...
Sorry for the wall of text. Thanks!