[poopoo]

This pass weekend i passed out suddenly and was rushed via ambulance to the emergency room for a seven hour ordeal that ended in my blood sugar level was 48 they gave me oral glucose paste and pushed lots of glucose via iv and sent me home 7 hours later i was very tired the day after and i feel okay today i have an appointment to see surgeon thursday and one pending for my primary
This fainting thing is so weird to me every so often throughout my life i just suddenly pass out this is the 5th time in my life and there is never any reason except this time my blood sugar level was low how strange

[Trulykath]

This happened to me about a month ago...the day I lost my job....I was walking in to the house...next thing I know, I woke up on the laundry room floor with a gash in my head....it's only happened once, but I know it was low blood sugar....I hadn't eaten all day....

[poopoo]

OMG ....Kathy sorry to hear of your job lose and your head being gashed ,but the funny thing is that i just ate like an hour before this happened thats why i don't understand why my sugar was so low

[tfrey]

I have had a few episodes like that since my surgery. My surgeon said it was because my diabetes is gone now but I was still taking the diabetes medicine. He has told me to start cutting out the diabetes meds one at a time. It has helped.

[mike]

I know the feeling all too well. I have aquired something called hypoglycemic insulinemic post-bypass syndrome. I think that is what the dietician told me. Scientific names. lol It is something different than just plain ol' low blood sugar from not eating, but its end result is basically the same. I was driving home one day after my wife had surgery last August...by myself, thank God, and when I did come to, I was on the other side of the highway and the a** end of the van hitting the gravel before going down the embankment and into the wilderness. Talk about scary. All I remember repeatedly saying was "OMG! OMG! OMG!" I can chuckle just a bit about it now, but at the time, it was very much not a laughing matter. Yes, I did total our van that we just had gotten 3 moths prior. I have to be very careful these days with what I put in my mouth. High carb foods will do it to me everytime. I will bottom out before having symptoms, with readings in the low 30's. Now that I know the symptoms better, and what to look for, I can usually catch it when it is in the upper 50 range. None the less, it is still scary for anyone that experiences this. Keep an eye on what and how often you are eating poopoo. It sure has helped me. mike

[kimtindall]

Oh yikes...def keep on top of that!!! I hope that you feel better and keep a check on it.

[qt82699]

sorry to hear this happened to you! i have not experienced this, but do get very lightheaded sometimes when getting up and have thought i would pass out, but it has passed

[Kenyar]

i was going to ask what you had eaten. i have had similar happen to me. i cant say if i actually passed out though. i dont remember LOL!
i hope you are feeling better. for now keep a log of what you eat. maybe if you track it you can figure out whats doing it to you?

[beckamarie]

Holy smokes, how scarey...I hope you get answers when you see your surgeon

[DeMarie]

I hope that doesn't happen again! What did you eat before it happened, was it too high in carbs and then maybe you bottomed out after? Too high in carbs now may be way different than too high in carbs before surgery.