shakey1961
06-12-12, 10:52
I have finally found the missing link to all my problems!
Cured eating a Victoria Sponge cake!
Now, that is perfectly true as you will come to see.
I have had panic and anxiety since I was 16yo, also having low blood sugar. After many years I found out that the low blood sugar (Hypoglycaemia or Hypos) was the cause of my anxiety and panic as when my blood sugar dropped the adrenal glands pump adrenaline into your blood stream to keep you conscious.
More I looked into this the more it fitted. But there was always the nagging question, the missing link - why does it drop as there's no diabetes in our family history?
Cue the Victoria sponge cake.
After all the baking programmes on TV I had the urge to do some baking again, as I used to bake when younger. So I buy all the ingredients, self raising flour eggs butter sugar etc etc and I make it. Success first time. So I have a slice, mmmm tasty, and a bit later another slice, then another, then another!
Next day, lets just say I was admiring the decoration in the bathroom a lot! Thankfully I wasn't being sick!
A few months previously I had Ryvita with egg sandwich filler very tasty also, but a few days later I had to once again rush to the bathroom.
Anyway, back to the days when I made the sponge cake. A friend asked me to make another sponge cake for some friends she had coming round. So I made one.
Had a small slice - 2 hours later guess where I was, in the bathroom!
Went to see my doctor. I asked him if it was the egg that could be making me go the toilet (ie the rye and egg sandwich filler that made me go). Unlikely he said, but try cutting out the wheat.
Hmmmmmmm I though. So I'd seen some wheat and gluten free flour in the health food shop. So I experimented with it and made the sponge cake again.
Had a small slice - 2 hours later guess where I was, sat in the living room NOT in the bathroom!!!
So I've cut out wheat and gluten! The doctor strongly suspects I have coeliac disease.
Since cutting it out of my diet I'm sooo relaxed, I have fewer hypos and they are a lot less severe. Wheat, Rye and Barley all contain gluten which in a person with coeliac disease the persons body attacks the lining of the gut. It is NOT an allergy it is an autoimmune disease. When the lining of the gut is attacked the Villi (little finger like "things" in the gut) become flattened. Once you have less of these villi you cannot take in enough nutrients. Come off the gluten and the villi return to normal after a period of time. Obviously when I was eating sugar I wasn't taking enough in and my insulin was driving my blood sugar down cos my blood didn't get the sugar it should have!!!
I believe it is an hereditary disease. Sadly my father passed away in 2003, but he had the same toilet problems,I had so I suspect he was a coeliac also. Also a cousin on the male side of my family has just been diagnosed with Coeliac disease.
I've not been tested for it properly yet, but it just so fits the missing link I've been looking for, for so long.
Coeliac disease can also cause breathlessness. Try searching for Coeliac link with anxiety or hypoglycaemia
http://www.diabetes.org.uk/Guide-to-diabetes/Introduction-to-diabetes/Other_associated_conditions/Coeliac_disease/What_are_the_symptoms_of_coeliac_disease/
Search out things, it may not be all in your head. I came to realise my problems came from my stomach.
I am so so so much better now. Hands are warmer, I don't gasp for air and I can do strenuous jobs without panicking or having a hypo!!!
Look into it and go see your doctor
Best wishes
Steve
Cured eating a Victoria Sponge cake!
Now, that is perfectly true as you will come to see.
I have had panic and anxiety since I was 16yo, also having low blood sugar. After many years I found out that the low blood sugar (Hypoglycaemia or Hypos) was the cause of my anxiety and panic as when my blood sugar dropped the adrenal glands pump adrenaline into your blood stream to keep you conscious.
More I looked into this the more it fitted. But there was always the nagging question, the missing link - why does it drop as there's no diabetes in our family history?
Cue the Victoria sponge cake.
After all the baking programmes on TV I had the urge to do some baking again, as I used to bake when younger. So I buy all the ingredients, self raising flour eggs butter sugar etc etc and I make it. Success first time. So I have a slice, mmmm tasty, and a bit later another slice, then another, then another!
Next day, lets just say I was admiring the decoration in the bathroom a lot! Thankfully I wasn't being sick!
A few months previously I had Ryvita with egg sandwich filler very tasty also, but a few days later I had to once again rush to the bathroom.
Anyway, back to the days when I made the sponge cake. A friend asked me to make another sponge cake for some friends she had coming round. So I made one.
Had a small slice - 2 hours later guess where I was, in the bathroom!
Went to see my doctor. I asked him if it was the egg that could be making me go the toilet (ie the rye and egg sandwich filler that made me go). Unlikely he said, but try cutting out the wheat.
Hmmmmmmm I though. So I'd seen some wheat and gluten free flour in the health food shop. So I experimented with it and made the sponge cake again.
Had a small slice - 2 hours later guess where I was, sat in the living room NOT in the bathroom!!!
So I've cut out wheat and gluten! The doctor strongly suspects I have coeliac disease.
Since cutting it out of my diet I'm sooo relaxed, I have fewer hypos and they are a lot less severe. Wheat, Rye and Barley all contain gluten which in a person with coeliac disease the persons body attacks the lining of the gut. It is NOT an allergy it is an autoimmune disease. When the lining of the gut is attacked the Villi (little finger like "things" in the gut) become flattened. Once you have less of these villi you cannot take in enough nutrients. Come off the gluten and the villi return to normal after a period of time. Obviously when I was eating sugar I wasn't taking enough in and my insulin was driving my blood sugar down cos my blood didn't get the sugar it should have!!!
I believe it is an hereditary disease. Sadly my father passed away in 2003, but he had the same toilet problems,I had so I suspect he was a coeliac also. Also a cousin on the male side of my family has just been diagnosed with Coeliac disease.
I've not been tested for it properly yet, but it just so fits the missing link I've been looking for, for so long.
Coeliac disease can also cause breathlessness. Try searching for Coeliac link with anxiety or hypoglycaemia
http://www.diabetes.org.uk/Guide-to-diabetes/Introduction-to-diabetes/Other_associated_conditions/Coeliac_disease/What_are_the_symptoms_of_coeliac_disease/
Search out things, it may not be all in your head. I came to realise my problems came from my stomach.
I am so so so much better now. Hands are warmer, I don't gasp for air and I can do strenuous jobs without panicking or having a hypo!!!
Look into it and go see your doctor
Best wishes
Steve