Sounds like you might be on the right track. I ran into someone else, on a lowcarb message forum, that is sensitive to fructose.

Fructose involves the liver have you had your liver checked recently? I think a CBC blood panel tests it.

Hmmm... now that I think about it, maybe I should have a few days of meat & veggies and no supplements to see if I can shake this blah feeling I've been wrestling with.

I know a group of people with a peculiar autoimmune disease do much better avoiding all starches (they test their food with iodine). It seems like maybe the human race really isn't evolved to eat constant sugar and starch all the time.

This from one of the web sites

A very small percentage of people have hereditary Fructose Intolerance (less than 1 in 10,000 people.)

Fructose Malabsorption is less well understood. But may be somewhat self-imposed by our modern diets. Humans have not yet evolved systems to cope with such high sugar consumption.

Like with celiac and other particular sensitivities and allergies like peanuts, its curious how just one little molecule can cause so many problems.

Kim, I read your post on the elimination diet , I think the bottom line is, ( I'm gonna go out on a limb here LOL ) , the best diet is the one that works for "you" , it just takes time to find out what that is .

That would be true.

However, people don't really know HOW to go about figuring that out. Or the way they WANT to do it is one food at a time, which doesn't give clear results or a faster improvement in their quality of life, if they are reacting to more than one of their most common foods... which seems to be the majority of the time.

So, IMO, the most effective way (speaking to both time and results) to isolate your best and worst foods, is to do a Total Elimination Diet... which naturally leads you into a good rotation diet... which will allow you to refine your diet more easily at a later date (identify new offenders and bring in new foods that you want to try again to see if you've healed enough to tolerate them).

Kim, I agree. I left out a lot of info, for the last 3 months or so my diet has been very simple, broccoli , cauliflower , some chicken and three fruits so it was pretty easy for me to isolate the culprit, oh and one of the fruits was pears which is on the avoid list but I hadn't eaten them for a few days. I guess I've been lucky in one respect (only one) when I went on Atkins and now the BTD, I stuck to it religiously, no cheating at all (really lol) , and my symptoms cleared up fast, as is with this fructose problem.

HI Bob,

Thanks for your post here. I am similar to you 8 years ago Protein Power, 2 yrs later BTD 6 years later gluten intolerant- but before discovering GS, my blood sugar was on a roller coaster and has been up until yesterday just fine and stable.

Then yesterday without warning or symptoms it crashed while I was driving. In the ambulance the sugar, an hour after breakfast was 62. Reading these reports you have posted, has me thinking about fructose.

I am of the red meat eaters so I get plenty of protein, but I don't do well with a lot of fruit- never have, feel very awful with honey- which I always thought was a mold issue- but looking at the rest of the list, I am not good with any of the fruits on that list. I generally eat more veggies than fruit. But that morning I had some raisins and a piece of apple with my breakfast- it was handy and I was headed out the door

My liver on the other hand doesn't have healthy albumin or globulin levels and while all my other stats have improved, this one has actually gone down .1 every year for the past several years. It is well below normal.

I see the doc on Tuesday so welcome to the forum and thanks again for your post.

Leslie

Raisins, like any dried food... is concentrated in all aspects... including sugars.

I guess that goes without saying, at this point.

What an alarming situation! I hope you are okay!

Hi Kim and all,

I am ok, but a little peeved at the docs who said they think it was an anxiety attack, but couldn't give an explanation for the low blood sugar except maybe that the anxiety shot it down that low. Is that possible? My question was this- is it possible the low blood sugar cause an anxiety attack,- as I would be more inclined to think that. No blood work was done except that which was done in the ambulance.

After reading the lengthy, but very informative and interesting series of posts begun by Jen from Austrailia, I have many of those head things/ear things going on and that is exactly how it began. A sharp pinching in my left ear, then a pain in my left shoulder followed about 7-10 minutes later by a tightening across the back of my head as well as bridge of nose and finally uncontrolled spasmic shaking of my right arm. I asked the emergency doc if it could have been a seizure and he said he didn't think so because I could remember the incidence pretty well. But I see my regular gp on Tuesday and I am not willing to let this rest until I get a more definitive answer.

Can all that really happen with anxiety?

Leslie