Interestingly enough, I am trying this and today ( March 13, 2010 is my first day. Three opills a day for ten days. My rosacia on my chin has been medium to severe for two years after a sunnden onset. Countless other antibiotics have failed, as has different courses of Metronidazole and clindamycin. Common triggers have been avoided – no luck. If anyone is interested, I’ll report in a few weeks what my personal resultes are.

What the book claims is that hyperinsulinism is very prominent and that besides the slight pain on the upper left side of the abdomen, in order to find out if one is indeed hypoglycemic, the 6 hour glucose tolerance test has to be done.

They usually do a 2 hour test for diabetes (the opposite of hypoglycemia), but 6 hours are needed for low blood sugar.

Here is how the test is done:

1) Nothing is eaten or drank after 6pm the previous day.

2) Upon awakening, one takes their fasting blood sugar level.

3) One then proceeds with a 100g. glucose solution.

4) You then take your blood sugar level at intervals of 30 minutes during the first hour and every hour thereafter until you reach 6 hours.

5) No food is consumed at any time.

6) You can look online for the different curves you will get. I like: http://hypoglykemie.nl/gtt.htm

7) If you, at anytime, but usually after the 4th of 5th hour, go below your initial fasting blood sugar levels, hypoglycemia is diagnosed.

** I personally didnt want to go to the doctors office, having to wait many hours for the chance of speaking with one who would be perhaps unaware of the hour test (most know about the 2 hour diabete test) and take up most of my time and DAYS trying to locate one, so I got a blood sugar level device diabetics use to measure their levels with a drop of blood. It may not be as precise as a lab, but it can still provide an idea.

By the way, excellent book this ‘Body, Mind and Sugar’

Good luck

“Have you noticed if this pain happens mostly when late at night (4am ‘ish) or later afternoon? (when blood sugar levels are lowest).”

There didn’t seem to be really any specific time it would happen, but more likely after food or drink. A burp, for example, would be followed by the pain. So, I think it’s digestive related. Would you agree?

Regards,
Dave

I am considering giving it a try.

“It was located on my left side, a bit above the mid-point of my torso)”

I just finished reading Body, Mind and Sugar
~ E.M. Abrahamson (Author), A.W. Pezet (Author)

Where they explore blood sugar levels and particularly hypoglycemia (or hyperinsulinism).

They repeatedly mention how a “an occassional mild, pain which came on quickly, but not quite quick enough to be considered ’stabbing’. It was located on my left side, a bit above the mid-point of my torso” is often misdiagnosed by doctors and how often this has to do with the pancreas (located precisely there).

Have you noticed if this pain happens mostly when late at night (4am ‘ish) or later afternoon? (when blood sugar levels are lowest).

If so, perhaps you could investigate the hyperinsulinism aspect of it.

A pharmacist told me he thinks doxycycline causes acid reflux burning. When I asked my doctor he said the problem is only when you take it without much water. He said you would expect to see a large ulcer on the esophagus where the pill was stuck. I’m not sure.

Stuart