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Old 04-12-2009, 08:17 AM   #9 (permalink)
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It may be worth getting a glucose meter and checking your blood sugar, particularly when you have a mood swing or feeling very tense.

After thinking for years that I had some weird combination of my Father's hot temper and my own variety of madness, I found that my anxiety, mood swings, etc. were virtually all the result of hypoglycaemia. I do have a hot temper, but I can manage that so easily now.

Your brain runs on the sugar in your blood and if there isn't enough of it then it seems to get in a constant fight or flight mode. If you are having hypos then the meter will show your blood sugar is low when you are most anxious or tense.

I take medication for hypoglycaemia now and I'm a different person. If you don't want to take medication then hypoglycemia can be controlled by diet fairly successfully by someone willing to be very careful about their diet.
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