Are you or think you might be hypoglycemic ?

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I just found this:

"Potential Hypoglycemia Symptoms:

Feeling hungry or needing to eat very often
Feeling anxious or nervous
Feeling light headed or foggy
Sweating, palpitations or rapid heart
Chronic fatigue
Poor sleep
Anxiety and/or depression
Feeling faint
Hyperventilation or shortness of breath
Overweight
Migraine and Tension Headache"

Nope.

Are you wondering whether hypoglycemia and ASD may be somehow related?

Dunno what this has to do with autism, but I was diagnosed with reactive hypoglycemia in college. I need to eat about every four hours, and if I go too long without eating (even by just a few hours), I will get a migraine.

I don't think I'm hypoglycaemic. I think nothing of having no food or carbohydrate-containing drinks at all until early afternoon, yet I don't get any of the symptoms on that list, apart from anxiety (which hasn't happened since I quite my job, and was never a problem unless there was an external reason to be anxious) and moderate fatigue when I get up (which exercise helps, but not sugar). I had a glucose tolerance test when I was about 28 years old, and my fasting blood glucose was normal then.

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I wouldn't be surprised if I'm hypoglycemic. I have a lot of those symptoms. But it might be explained by something else.

Olympiadis, have you looked into pyroluria as a possibility?

I'd be fnord and say, get it tested if you want a diagnose. Do not play around with hypothetic diseases and cures as they might actually be worsening things.
Pyroluria (or malvaria from the term mauve factor) involves hypothetical excessive levels of pyrroles in the body resulting from improper hemoglobin synthesis...Few, if any, medical experts regard the condition as genuine, and few or no articles on pyroluria are found in modern medical literature.
Source-checking.
Get over the magical thinking.