Hypoglycemia only after Lapband?

[celeste_ 0]

Basically, I've been trying to learn more about hypoglycemia, because I'm wondering if that might be what's wrong with me.

I keep reading on here about how people stopped having problems when they got their band. But I was wondering if anyone out there only developed hypoglycemia AFTER having the band surgery?

I recently found out that I have two small gall stones, and I have a surgical consult on Tuesday for that. But besides the (relatively mild - they caught it early) pain from that, about 3 hours after I eat, I get very light-headed, nauseated, cold, and panicky. I never had problems like this before my band surgery, and I can't find anything about dizzy spells being related to gall stones.

At this point, I'm afraid to eat anything! On Friday, I had a little bag of pretzels, which seemed to go OK, so for dinner I had a tiny little chef salad, which had half an egg, a pinch of cheese, 4 little cubes of ham, 2 Tomato slices, and 1/3 of a packet of light italian dressing. Almost *exactly* three hours later, I suddenly got a huge dizzy spell, and had to lean back in my chair and sit there for a bit. Felt a little bit better for about 20 minutes, and then everything went to hell and I was freezing, dizzy, nauseated, and in a total panic on my couch. I even yelled at my boyfriend who was just trying to take care of me, and I felt awful about it.

Like I said, I never had this kind of problem before the lapband, so I don't know what's going on. I guess I should just wait until the gall bladder thing gets taken care of, and then worry about the dizziness, but frankly, the dizzy spells worry me more, and I'm at the point where I feel like I can't eat anything at all. And I don't have insurance, so all these doctor's visits are totally killing me financially.

So. Hypoglycemia? Other ideas? :smile:

[celeste_ 0]

I can't believe it, but this seems to be the cause of almost all of my health problems for the last month. I have been miserable!

And now, I sip on orange juice here and there throughout the day, and I feel just fine, better than I have in weeks.

Part of me is ecstatic, and the other part is frustrated that I felt so awful for a month, and the answer was something so tiny!

Thanks, Jack :tt1:

[mbanja 1]

I am glad the OJ is working, do you take any meds for diabetes or high BP? If so, it might be time to have you PB and sugar levels checked to see if you need to cut down on those meds also. That could explain alot. If you are not taking such meds, I would still run it by you doc at your next check up just to make sure. I have been experiencing the same things, but I know its cuz I am on the too tight side and can't really get anything down until about 3p.m. So mine is from hunger. Hey though, at least you are not fat and getting it because it has been 30mins since you've eaten. LOL, its funny how even the stupidest stuff is like a NSV in our band world!