by MandyUK on Sun Jul 18, 2004 7:49 am
I had really bad hypoglycaemia (low blood sugar) until a few years back, and the main symptom if running low for me was a kind of nauseous giddiness. Never had the dry heaving you mention, but I also used to get quite bad headaches too.
Heat used to be a major problem too, and while my glucose tolerance is now said to normal, this sticky humidity we're currently having would have burnt up my sugar very quickly, exhausting me and causing an attack - I'd feel sick without actually doing so (perhaps in others it can cause dry vomiting), giddy and, if I didn't built up the sugar again quickly with sweets or a drink, I would be prone to passing out.
What you have does sound a lot like low blood sugar, at least from my experience - have you had a glucose tolerance test to find out?
But I would also say, and it was never proven medically, that after I had my glucose tolerance test and was found to be normal, I had a couple of attacks that were similar but were obviously not glucose related. I was dieting extensively and I think it was actually the result of getting used to lack of some proteins. If I reintroduced meat or fish (not, interestingly, milk, eggs, cheese or soya) into my diet, then I was usually the better for it. I had to wean myself off certain things, rather than drop them altogether.
You're not dieting are you? Or have stopped eating something you're used to, quite suddenly?
