I do have blood sugar problems. Growing up I had hypoglycemia and had to go to the school nurse for a snack mid-morning. I hated juice and candy and such as it would make me ill. That has shown up at times on labs as an adult, sometimes low, sometimes normal but my normal baseline has crept up and my doctor interprets that as insulin resistance with some of my other labs.
I do not know if I have ever had reactive hypoglycemia.Years ago I described to a doctor what happened/happens after I eat and he said, "Well if that happened
before you ate we would bring you in and test you before and after a great big plate of spaghetti." So I always assumed he though it sounded like hypoglycemia, though he probably didn't have much idea that it could occur after eating. Now I mostly just have major brain fog without the sleepiness and nausea after eating, but glucometer looks fine.
On the other hand, there is evidence I have been swinging high as well. I don't really understand it. On a day when I am hungry and feel like eating carbs I can eat a pile of biscuits and gravy (this is an unusual meal) and have a postprandial reading of 85. Other days I have felt fat, sluggish, and gross and end up with postprandial glucose off something like a single piece of Ezekiel bread that will be something like 114. At one point my HBA1c actually came back high.
Interestingly, carnitine improves insulin sensitivity in Type-2 diabetics so this is probably all related.
I was told to take lysine for EBV and have gone on and off of it a few times over the years; I can't see that it makes a difference with these issues even when taking supportive methylation vitamins. I have been shown to be deficient in methionine as well which makes sense (carnitine-wise, overlooking the fact that I crave and eat meat and shouldn't be low in these things at all), but when I have labs done in conjunction with supplementation my carnitine doesn't change. Instead, glutathione rockets into a 'high' lab reading.
I wonder if we are so toxic that methionine is all turned to cysteine instead of carnitine to mop up a mess? That is my leading theory. Or, could it be that a functioning carnitine cycle is perceived as so dangerous that it is shunted into glutathione as a sort of storage? Maybe it is only my own body that works this way... It is probably something else entirely; I have no idea how these systems
really work, I only have the internet's For Dummies version in my very damaged brain.
How high do your urine ketones get
@jpredsoxdude00 ? Does your diet matter at all? I seem to get them going high after about 12 hours without a good source of carbs. I can't really figure out how dieters take days of extremely low carbs to get trace mounts of ketones and I will have them shoot through the roof if I accidentally have a low-carb breakfast after macaroni, cake, and ice cream the night before. Aren't most people's livers still providing sugar at that point? And why can't I seem to use the ketones
at all? When I have used a body composition calculator I see that I often lose about up to 2 pounds per day - mostly of lean mass.