Hypoglycemia Symptoms with Coffee, Experiment Concluded

Posted On January 15, 2012

My organic brewed coffee experiment on myself showed that I am hopelessly allergic to coffee. It was not the raw honey as I previously thought. It was the coffee, the caffeine in the coffee that was causing me hypoglycemic symptoms whenever I take some brewed coffee for socials.

Searching on the internet showed me some interesting pages:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_hypoglycemia

and

http://www.livestrong.com/article/402727-hypoglycemia-caffeine/

and even a forum:

http://www.hypoglycemia.itgo.com/

and

http://www.zimbio.com/Low+Carb+Diet/articles/53/Understanding+Hypoglycemia+Blood+Sugar

and

http://livinlavidalocarb.blogspot.com/2007/04/is-hypoglycemia-hidden-low-carb-side.html

Very interesting. Of course this means a total cessation of coffee for me, even for socials. I’ll just need a good excuse.

I’ve known this for some time, just could not pin it down. I didn’t used to have this extreme reaction to coffee. 10 years ago I was gulping some 5 cups of coffee a day. Then there came a time a new product called called a Frape came along and that put me in the hospital with what I recognize now as extreme hypoglycemic symptoms, I don’t really remember what year that happened.

What is interesting though is that I have to be aware of hypoglycemia symptoms in other people in recognizing their disease, ailment. Must study more about hypoglycemia. Must know more.