Light headed (?) after meal

(Michael) #1

I hate to ask another question but I’ve searched and couldn’t find any answer. Maybe I don’t know what to search for.

So I’m almost through week 2. Went out for my daughter’s birthday, and was nervous but where we went has wings with no breading (so they claim). I ate 5 wings and a piece of seared tuna over a salad for my meal. I tasted a single drop of the dressing before pouring it over my salad and realized it had sugar so went back and grabbed blue cheese.

I say all that bc it may or may not help solve what was going on. Probably 10 minutes after eating I got almost light headed or foggy or something. It hasn’t happened before so I started wondering if I had hidden carbs in the wings or maybe it was even that extremely small amount of the sweet Asian dressing that came with the salad?

Has anyone else experienced this or have any theories as to what that could have been? Maybe idk what brain fogginess feels like. Could be describing wrong. Sort of feels like I’ve had a couple beers and starting to feel buzzed.

(Jennifer) #2

Lightheadedness usually has more to do with low electrolytes than anything. I wouldn’t think that any foods in particular would cause that kind of reaction?

(Michael) #3

I’ve been drinking a Powerade zero each morning. But that’s ab it other than using the light salt on my food. Might make up some ketoade this weekend

(Cheryl Hall) #4

Hi Miiike!

Question: Are you diabetic? If so do you check your sugars? I know when mine drop low it makes me feel all spacy and dizzy. If they drop too low I get really shaky and weak.

Just a thought …

Cheryl

(Michael) #5

I have no idea honestly. I’m 29 and haven’t been to a family doctor since I was maybe 13 and that was because I had bronchitis. I have to have physicals each year for my current job and this last one I was creeping up into the high blood pressure range, and what sort of worried me was in the urine sample they detected sugar (I guess it didn’t worry me enough to make it to a doctor yet lol). This is what prompted me to search for a lifestyle change.

Maybe once every two months I would get what I think is low blood sugar though, where I would get extremely weak and dizzy and have to sit down and eat something and would feel better after maybe 10 or 15 minutes. I wouldn’t doubt if I was in the pre-diabetic or at least metabolic syndrome range. When work slows down this fall/winter I plan to finally find myself a doctor. I pay (a lot of) money for insurance and have yet to use it!

(Cheryl Hall) #6

Gotcha! Well if you keep up the Keto you won’t have to worry about those kind of issues in the future!

Not sure what caused the lightheaded episode though. Maybe someone else on the forum will have some thoughts on that.

I use Trace Minerals and Electrolyte Power along with Pink Salt. I recently did a 2.5 day fast (my first one) and tried the trick Carl talked about on the podcast of putting it under my togune – worked like a charm!

Take care Miiike and, as they say, “Keto On”!

#7

Yes, this is a symptom of diabetes. Your kidneys will excrete excess sugar from the bloodstream. I recommend you see a doctor about it as soon as possible. A glucose meter will tell you what’s going on in the meantime.

You may have had some reactive hypoglycemia to the protein-rich meal, possibly with hidden carbs. Being only 2 weeks into keto, you haven’t had a chance to fully utilize fat and ketones yet. Please use extra caution and tell the people close to you what you are doing in case of an emergency situation.

(Siobhan) #8

Yes, sugar in urine is bad bad bad.
Go to a doctor asap.
Sure, keto has helped people with diabetes… in the long term. But in the short term you want to make sure it doesnt get out of control and become dangerous.
Your doctor will know best how to make sure you remain stable, and keto long term may help too.

Also yes tell family in case something happens so they know to take you to a hospital (not saying you will but better to be safe).

(Richard Morris) #9

Mike - sugar in urine is a symptom of diabetes. It used to be diagnosed in the middle ages by the doctor tasting the patients urine. They don’t do that any more.

The day you had the blood taken you had so much glucose in your blood that your kidneys were trying to protect you by dumping it.

The symptoms you describe are very similar to a hypoglycemia (low blood sugar).

If I were you I would find a family doctor you trust, and get scheduled for blood tests, and be prepared to learn a lot about diabetes. I would also buy a gluccometer and get to know what my glucose is before and 1 and 2 hours after a meal. If 2 hours after a meal it is higher than it was before the meal - you are likely diabetic. Anything over 6.1 mmol/l (110 mg/dl) means that you are likely killing the cells in your pancreas that make insulin faster than you can grow new ones.

A ketogenic diet is a low insulinogenic diet that stabilizes blood glucose by manufacturing it on demand in the liver - you do this by not eating sugar or starch. BUT you need to be able to make adequate insulin, or inject it if not - whether you go on a ketogenic diet or not. On a ketogenic diet however you need less than on a high carb diet.

(Michael) #10

I said sugar but I meant protein. There was protein detected which I read was related to big blood pressure and/or diabetes. Sorry about that!

(Richard Morris) #11

Oh phew. It’s still not a good sign, but it’s less dangerous than glucose so high it’s spilling into urine.

It may be a sign that your kidneys are having trouble keeping large particles like proteins from ending up in your urine. High blood pressure for long enough will do this kind of damage to the kidneys. And Diabetes does raise insulin which can not only increase blood pressure, it can do damage to the blood supply to the kidneys.

Regarding your original light headed issue, it could be low sugar, or electrolytes. I would still get a gluccometer. But also use that insurance of yours to get a general practitioner and a proper kidney panel done.