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[the_rck]

On the plus side, my body has finally settled down in terms of the migraine. On the minus side, I’ve gotten nothing done beyond posting and reading here and emptying the dishwasher. Well, I fed myself, too— Hamburger for breakfast and collard greens with salt and mustard for lunch. I’ve been eating lunch very, very slowly over the last two hours or so, and I still haven’t finished. I suspect I won’t. I think that drinking a lot of water is what finally killed the nausea.

I got myself together to email my doctor about the food/fatigue/brain fog thing. I didn’t explicitly ask about seeing an endocrinologist, though. I couldn’t quite get myself to. I poked around online a bit. I found not a single website, in pages of results, that talks about fatigue/brain fog that is resolved by eating. Almost every single thing talked about having issues after eating particular foods which is not my issue in the slightest. The closest I got to my issue was stuff talking about eating disorders causing brain fog and fatigue in teenage girls.

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[kyrielle]

I get hits googling "low blood sugar brain fog" if that helps?

[the_rck]

Yes, it does. Thank you.

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

Hopefully your doctor will have some suggestions.

[the_rck]

I have my fingers crossed. I've known that there was some sort of issue here for decades, but the doctors I saw in the late 1980s and early 1990s kept telling me that I was lying or, at best, mistaken, that things don't work that way. I just found my own workarounds and kept going. Maybe thirty years is enough time that someone will understand that this is actually a thing.

[evalerie.livejournal.com]

Celiac disease is notorious for brain fog.

I don't want to be a constant pest about celiac, so my goal is to not mention this more than once every 5-10 years, but I see a long list of ways where you seem like a match. And I don't think there are many people in Ann Arbor who know more about celiac than I do. I really think it would be worth experimentally going gluten-free for 2-4 weeks to see if it helps. Maybe it will, maybe it won't, but to me this really looks worth trying. Worst case scenario: You try it and nothing happens. Best case scenario: You try it and it helps. So there isn't much of a downside.

Also, many years ago you asked me if celiac could cause anxiety, and at the time I didn't know. Since then I have read articles that say that yes, it can. If you'd like, I can forward you a copy of the Lansing celiac support group's newsletter that has an article that talks about this.

Ok, I will drop this now, because I really don't want to make a pest of myself.

[the_rck]

This is very, very definitely a blood sugar thing. I only have brain fog when it's been too long since I ate last or when I haven't eaten the right things. Chewing sugary bubble gum used to help back before they started putting aspartame in all of the sugared gums.