BugdocMom

Hi BugdocMon, Iposted the message below in the forum. I am sending the message to you directly becuase I follow your posts/responses and I feel that you are a subject matter expert in the Hypoglycemic area. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thx 

Need your Advice/Ideas:

Quick Background: Had my Gastric Bypass Feb 2016 primarily to get rid of my Type II Diabetes. Almost everything went well. Type II Diabetes-Gone, CPAP-Gone. All other Blood Tests Perfect. However, within 3 months of surgery, started having hypoglycemic events. My endocrinologist referred me to a Specialist Endocrinologist at a University Hospital. Got admitted to a Hospital for Insulinoma Testing. Results-Negative. Was diagnosed with "Post Gastric Bypass Hypoglycemia". Was told to manage through More Protein and less Carb diet. Have played around with diet for past 18 months but no significant improvement. Kept getting hypoglycemic events 2-3 times a week. She started me on acarbose but my stomach could not handle it since the Gas in my stomach was making my daily living miserable.  On Feb 23 of 2018, my specialist put me on Proglycem (diazoxide) suspension. 2.5 ml (Twice Per Day). Magic happened. Not even a single incident of Hypoglycemia. Medicine tastes awful but more than happy to take it. Well since things were going great, I had stopped measuring my sugars. I have having an Arthroscopy later next week and I had to go in for some pre-Op blood testing. My primary said that everything was fine except that my sugar was 282! Huh! I thought it was because I took the blood test without fasting. But then I have taken about 6 random blood sugars including early morning fasting. They are all above 200!! What a reversal from Hypoglycemia to High Blood Sugars!

Question: Is my high blood sugars because of Proglycem? Seems logical. Has anyone has kind of experience taking this medication?  Any alternative medications?

The only thing that comes to mind is that on March 27, 2018 I had an epidural injection of steroids in my C4-C5 for neck/migraine pain management. I know that steroid injections definitely increase blood sugar but it has been two weeks. Would the effect of high blood sugars from steroids remain there for 2 weeks? Anybody have this experience?

I have an appointment scheduled with my specialist next week but I feel gathering additional information from this splendid patient portal site is always a great idea.

Thank you In advance.

Hi! I am at the very beginning of my journey and was wondering about your process with insurance. I see that your beginning weight was similar to mine. Did you have any comortalities and did your BMI ever go below 35 during the prior two years? Thanks for any help