Talk:Reactive hypoglycemia

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This material is a duplicate of material found at http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/hypoglycemia. This material is not copyrighted and may be freely distributed; however, I think a citation is appropriate. MJSkia1 00:03, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Redirect?

Should Sugar crash redirect here?

==Yes it should== please merge

[edit] obsessive behavior and how to impale yourself on your own citation

Natehdogg, I will stop deleting the "obsessive behavior" so you don't have a meltdown, but will offer you some education. First, you have apparently miss-cited the full article, which was published in Diabetes, not Am J Psychiat, in 1973. This leads me to suspect you haven't any idea what it says. Second, the article does not claim obsessive behavior is a "common symptom" of reactive hypoglycemia (which is what the list is entitled). I doubt even you consider it a common symptom of it. Third, and more importantly, the article does not claim that reactive hypoglycemia causes the symptom of obsessive behavior. Read it. Fred Hofeldt was one of the senior authors and has published a book (Preventing Reactive Hypoglycemia, St. Louis:Warren H. Green, 1983 ISBN 87527-214-2) and several articles on reactive hypoglycemia since then. He was an endocrinologist known for his special interest in reactive hypoglycemia, not one of those who doubted whether there is such a disease. He was particularly interested in the psychological profiles of people with the condition (he presented a review of the topic "Psychological profile in reactive hypoglycemia" at the 3rd International Symposium on Hypoglycemia in 1987; it is available in the published proceedings). His most recent full review of the topic likely to be accessible to you if you have access to a medical library was published in 1989 in Endocrinol Metab Clin N Am 18:185-201. In both the review articles and the book he references the 1973 Diabetes article with Anthony but not an Am J Psychiat article. If you actually read what he has published, it is that there is indeed a strong association between a variety of psychiatric and personality disorders and a self-diagnosis of reactive hypoglycemia, but that none of the research studies have been able to demonstrate that the psychiatric disorders are caused by low glucose levels, and most of the patients with psychiatric symptoms did not even have demonstrably low glucose levels. So put it in the list if you have to have your way, but why not add all the other MMPI characteristics of the self-diagnosed patients? I can give you "citations" that blame hypoglycemia for arson, UFO sightings, and a long list of antisocial behaviors but most of them are basically unsubstantiated crank assertions, not scientific research. alteripse 05:45, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

haha! sounds like we might be suffering from blood sugar related ocd. only joking! i think i was reacting to my very first addition being removed so quickly - i am sorry i referenced incorrectly - the study was actually one by Ford et al. at the Mayo Clinic. If you would like the full reference let me know. i agree - it is not a common symptom and the evidence is based not upon spontaneous symptoms but upon those induced by an oral glucose test. The link is tenuous at best but I was speaking from experience of sufferers - considering the controversy around the condition and the fact that we could quite rightly include all of the MMPI characteristics and a whole host of other vague symptoms maybe speculation is not a good idea. I will remove 'obsessive behavior' as a symptom but I intend to expand the r. hypoglycemia section, giving more practical advice to sufferers and may include a section about reactive hypo. in relation to personality where I may mention it again. Apologies for the confusion - your expertise will be much appreciated if I do indeed make any further changes. regards