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I suffer a bit with low blood sugar ie I get the cyclists' "bonk" if I
walk too far or ride too far without food.
My main problem is that a couple of times per year I begin feeling ill
as if I am about to come down with something. I lay off the training,
but all the time I feel this lightheaded, almost dizziness, as if I
have gone ages without food. Eating doesn't seem to help (just makes
me weigh more and get more depressed as I am not training. Sometimes I
feel like my eyes are really diffiuclt to focus and sometimes I feel
really nauseous. I have an underactive thyroid but the doctor has
checked my blood levels and also checked for anaemia and diabetes and
found nothign. Yet this feeling persists sometimes for a month or
more.
It wiped out my whole triathlon season in 2001/2002 as I just was so
far behind with the training that I couldn't do the races I had
planned. It is now threatening to do the same again. Is it just a
tedious version of a virus (I no longer get proper colds) combined with
the Low blood sugar or can anyone suggest anything. All help very
gratefully received. Thanks Jackie
walk too far or ride too far without food.
My main problem is that a couple of times per year I begin feeling ill
as if I am about to come down with something. I lay off the training,
but all the time I feel this lightheaded, almost dizziness, as if I
have gone ages without food. Eating doesn't seem to help (just makes
me weigh more and get more depressed as I am not training. Sometimes I
feel like my eyes are really diffiuclt to focus and sometimes I feel
really nauseous. I have an underactive thyroid but the doctor has
checked my blood levels and also checked for anaemia and diabetes and
found nothign. Yet this feeling persists sometimes for a month or
more.
It wiped out my whole triathlon season in 2001/2002 as I just was so
far behind with the training that I couldn't do the races I had
planned. It is now threatening to do the same again. Is it just a
tedious version of a virus (I no longer get proper colds) combined with
the Low blood sugar or can anyone suggest anything. All help very
gratefully received. Thanks Jackie