Thinking it may not be normal that my blood sugar levels affect my mood THIS much.
Might there be some other health issue that could be found with a simple blood test?
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I hope my physical next month is productive. Or at least that I'm not dying of some non-obvious but extremely painful disease.
Thinking it may not be normal that my blood sugar levels affect my mood THIS much.
Do you suspect that the physical will reveal something?
Hoping it will, or will give me leads, yes. I'm starting to suspect there may be a medical cause behind how screwy my energy levels are, over and above how depressed I am right now, for a few reasons. The ideal would be a simple vitamin deficiency I could address with a supplement or dietary changes. I'm
hoping it's not diabetes. When I was on Zyprexa, I was monitored carefully for it and always came out OK, but in retrospect none of those were fasting bood sugars, so I don't know how accurate the tests really could have been.
The tricky thing is that I faint easily, which makes it impossible to get fasting blood sugar (or cholesterol, for that matter, albeit that concerns me less). They may be able to do a skin prick test just to get those levels, though. Anything that doesn't require fasting I can do, but I've learned to eat something immediately beforehand.