Updates
Well boyz 'n girls, the fun just keeps on keepin' on.
As some of you know, I started having these weird sugar crash type issues last April. It was kind of like bonking hard on the bike, but only 20-40 minutes into the ride. Bought a glucometer and confirmed that my blood sugar was tanking even though I was eating well. On top of this, I weigh 15+ lbs more than I did in December in-spite of eating reasonably well and riding.
Went to the doc and had some basic blood work done. Everything looked normal. 'Found a paper entitled "Exercise Hypoglycemia in Non-diabetic Subjects". Sounded exactly like what I was experiencing.
So, I did what the paper said to do to manage it. This consisted of eating a high-carbo, low glycemic index meal a couple hours before riding and supplementing with a carbo drink while riding. I did this, and for the most part, it seemed to do the trick. Fawk the docs, I got this handled.
Then in early August, I started having some periods of retaining water and pissing like a race horse. And, okay control yourselves children, a spell of nasty body odor--shower, soap, deoderant, repeat...'still not rosey. Some other minor oddities were experienced as well (night sweats, etc.). Anyway, most of this stuff was intermittent or down right stopped.
Odd. 'Thought about going to the doctor, but never got around to it.
Then I went riding with Matty, Ruth, Chris and Mare at Stephens. The management strategy I'd been doing didn't seem to work. If it hadn't of been for Chris giving me some Shot Bloks, it'd be a total disaster.
Okay, time to go to the doc.
I update the doc on the new symptoms and he mentions a "very small" possibility of a tumor on my pancreas :scared: You bet your ass I made the first appointment possible to get the CT scan w/IV contrast. Clean as a whistle
Whew!
Then I went for a three-hour glucose tolerance test. The fasting, 1 hour, and 2 hour samples were normal. Barely. We're talking single digit mg/dL above the lower end of normal. Then at some point between 2 and 3 hours, I crashed...44 mg/dL. 'Had no idea when I left the lab, though I was "big time blah" and pretty much a waste of a human being for a good part of the afternoon. Oddly, my insulin levels were dead-nuts normal for the entire test.
My GP pretty much shrugged his shoulders and is sending me to an endochronologist. He did say that it wasn't an unreasonable leap to think that the stress of intense-ish exercise could push me hypoglycemic even when I've eaten well based on my reaction to the glucose test. The test was almost normal, but kinda' not...
So the good news is that it doesn't seem to appear that I'm imagining things. The bad news is more poking and prodding. I've spent more time with doctors in the last two years than I have the rest of my life combined (excluding orthopedists, of course
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