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There is a distinct difference between an outside influence causing hypoglycemia and the body's internal organs causing it.
I took an herbal formula that's supposed to regenerate the pancreas. No, not Christopher's. It's just called "Pancreas Formula". I took it, against the contraindications on the bottle, at the recommendation of a couple of friends.
The bottle specifically states it's not for hypoglycemics, only hyperglycemics as the herbs have insulin like actions, directly lowering blood sugar.
When I get "hypoglycemic" from a reaction to food, or an adrenal crash I get panicky, psychotic/neurotic, dizzy, can start seeing spots, get violently dangerous to those around because I'm irrational and some other weird things. Pancreatic pain as well.
When I took this "Pancreas Formula" I noticed my body started shutting down. At first I felt "hypoglycemic" as I usually do, but after a while I noticed that my adrenaline wasn't shooting out. I wasn't getting agitated, dizzy, panicky or any of that. My body was literally just shutting down and my adrenals weren't trying to compensate. My guess is that the pancreas formula was in the blood stream simultaneously with high insulin levels. Either it acted to supress the normal panic response by the adrenals to raise the sugar, or the body is unable to detect this type of hypoglycemia.
What I do know if that I started separating from my body, and could feel my brain functions shutting down so I had to eat some carbs immediately to keep from fainting.
It felt much more similar to the diabetics I've talked to in their description of insulin overdose.
Just wanted to share. I believe there are big differences in the two types of hypoglycemia and how they're experienced.
I will NEVER touch that formula again ever, by the way. That scared the hell out of me.