Blurry vision, nausea, headaches, nutrition.

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  • DebLaBounty
    DebLaBounty Posts: 1,172 Member
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    I'm glad to see you're getting the fasting blood test. I second the idea that you have an eye exam, too. You might as well rule out anything you can.
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,517 Member
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    I get similar symptoms, but only when I don't do strength training. I have no idea why this is the case but it is. Had every glucose test you can think of, even bought a glucometer, even did a challenge test with 10 minute testing instead of the long intervals a doctor would do - nothing.

    So I don't know what's causing it, but picking up difficult bodyweight training (or weight lifting) helps ever time. Just one single really hard session keeps this awful feeling off me for a few days. Training for several months keeps this feeling off me for a long time. Hey, I did the last workouts in July last year. This early July I was so annoyed by the constant crashes, feeling weak and headaches that I remembered what helped previous times, and the problem was gone.
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,517 Member
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    One note on vitamins and minerals: Some of them can scew blood results, making doctors believe you are fine while you are in fact not. Don't just pop vitamins and minerals if you don't know whether you're deficient in anything. Plus some of them can be overdosed fairly quickly, like potassium, vitamin B6 and a few others.
  • CharlieBeansmomTracey
    CharlieBeansmomTracey Posts: 7,682 Member
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    TheWJordinWJordin wrote: »
    In the US, a test for vitamin and mineral deficiencies could cost thousands. Insurance only pays if it's absolutely necessary. And insurance companies tend to be stingy with this.

    Ive never had an issue with these things being tested especially if I had issues like the op.
  • nickhennessey
    nickhennessey Posts: 26 Member
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    DebLaBounty wrote: »
    I'm glad to see you're getting the fasting blood test. I second the idea that you have an eye exam, too. You might as well rule out anything you can.

    Actually, I have had my eyes tested twice over the last 6 months, and they've been fine (other than getting reading glasses for the first time).

    Thanks for your thoughts.
  • nickhennessey
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    bluestarlight19 wrote: »
    Have you had an eye exam recently? Its how they found my IIH. I had blurry/blacking out vision and headaches, nausea on and off. But I thought they were just migraines, since I've had those since a kid. Went for an eye exam and they found my optic nerves swollen/enlarged. Was sent for an MRI and all came back normal. They did a spinal tap and it turned out my CSF in my brain is too high. Causing all the symptoms.

    Wow, that's quite a thing. How are you? How long ago did they find it?
  • nickhennessey
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    kimny72 wrote: »
    OP, about 10 years ago I started getting lightheaded and nauseous with a headache several times a week, usually in the morning when I first got to work. My doc had me get a fasting blood test and they found I had super low blood sugar in the morning. I guess as I ate and drank through the day it leveled up, so it was only noticeable on the fasting test.

    They told me to have a string cheese and a glass of juice immediately when I woke up in the morning, and the dizzy spells stopped. After a couple of months, I stayed with my brother for a few days and forgot my little morning snack and had no problems. So eventually I got back to not eating in the AM and haven't had any problems since. I have no idea why it happened and why it stopped being an issue, but I hope you get some answers with the fasted blood test!

    Thanks. Yes, I hope it makes things a bit clearer. I recognise over the last few years that I have generally much less tolerance of hunger, I go into flaking-out hungry quite quickly. I never used to have to eat before 10am, but now need something pretty much the moment I wake up.

    I'm a stage performer by profession so there's often quite a bit of adrenalin pumping through me, so I wonder about cortisol levels too. It does amaze me what's possible with adrenalin. All my symptoms disappear while I'm on stage, then creep back in afterwards.
  • mitch16
    mitch16 Posts: 2,113 Member
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    I used to get exercise-induced migraines, especially during brutal spinning classes... I found that replacing some of the water I drank during class (I usually drank ~48 oz) with Gatorade (the full sugar kind) mitigated the migraines.

    But mine was an immediate reaction--it happened during the class or in the car on the way home. That yours isn't coming until nearly 2 days later is curious. Hope your doc figures it out for you!

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