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I have diagnosed and treated patients with low blood sugar for 35 years, and over this time I have learnt that a simple diagnosis of ‘low blood sugar’ is rarely helpful for the patient and not always accurate. Indeed the diagnostic challenge with low blood sugar symptoms is to provide satisfactory answers to the following questions:

1 Are the symptoms of low blood sugar seen in a patient the result of poor stress handling or a faulty diet, and therefore transient and probably reversible? or

2 Are the symptoms the result of a chronic glandular imbalance, long-term stress, excessive reliance on caffeine, tobacco, alcohol and other drugs, or the many other factors associated with dysglycaemia?

In fact, many people with the symptoms of low blood sugar have several causes running parallel. As low blood sugar masquerades as so many different conditions, and can create such a diversity of symptoms, diagnosis can be difficult. For this reason, and others that will be discussed later, it is not wise to diagnose low blood sugar without professional help. Low blood sugar mimics very many serious diseases and it is therefore essential that the possibility of more serious causes for the symptoms is ruled out.

The clinical diagnosis of low blood sugar falls naturally into several stages.