Hypoglycemia Survey Results |
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A survey about all aspects of non-diabetic types of hypoglycemia, also known as Low Blood Sugar |
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Introduction
When our inexperienced group of hypoglycemia sufferers undertook the production
of a survey, initially, it seemed easy and straightforward. It was "obvious"
what we wanted to find out. We learned quickly, however, that it was a
complicated task open to many variations in interpretation. A fluctuating
team of up to twelve members from four countries was guided by a small
core of five from three countries for the one and one half years it took
to design and administer the survey. It attracted over 1200 respondents
from all over the world, far exceeding our modest hopes of getting 100
to take the survey! Throughout, we picked apart each other’s ideas, played
Devil’s Advocate, suggested, modified and turned each others’ ideas upside
down. Despite all this, we can still look back and see things we could
have done better.
Although our survey may not meet strict scientific criteria, we still feel that the numbers are significant, and we hope that the results will provide useful information that may help to improve the quality of life for hypoglycemia sufferers. If we can get the attention of some of those in the medical community who don’t understand or know how to treat hypoglycemia, or worse, those who deny hypoglycemia exists, then we will have surpassed our highest hopes.
It has been a long time coming, but the results are finally being analyzed. The first section, "Diets", is complete. What follows are some of the highlights along with our comments. You are encouraged to draw your own conclusions, and use the information as you think it will best benefit you. The percentages used in the text are rounded to the nearest whole number. If you would like to see the raw figures and percentages, as well as take a look at the original survey forms, and the forms for the other sections, they can be accessed at the main survey site: http://huizen2.dds.nl/~hypo/survey.
We remind you, this survey is not meant to be a diagnostic tool, nor medical advice. Instead, it is a means to find out if there are any unrecognized correlations between hypoglycemia and other seemingly unrelated factors. One goal is to find different causes of hypoglycemia, another to correlate successful remedies to those causes. We are not doctors. If you have questions about your medical status, consult a health care professional.
We do hope that you find the results useful.
The Hypo Survey Team
| Judie Benwick
Brandy Braddock Lisa Carey Meher Davis Jon Denn Alejo Hausner |
Lars Idema
Paula Kiley-Placko David Morrison Carole Raymond Dwight Shackelford Sue Shaner |
Contact
Us
If you’d like to share your own conclusions from this information, please
feel free to email HypoTeam@Yahoo.com.
When we do the final writeup of the entire survey, we’ll take your comments
into consideration. Meanwhile, we are working on the second section, Symptoms.
Copyright
Notice
Feel free to make copies of all results documents for your personal use
or for a friend or relative, including to share with health care providers.
If you want to make these documents available to others on an ongoing basis
(publication in print or on a website), please do *not* post or copy the
documents itself. Instead, provide a link, or post only the Introduction
Section (this section). This will enable others always to retrieve the
most recent version.
Advice given in these documents is never medical advice, as we do not have a medical background. If your symptoms show similarities with those of hypoglycemia, please see a doctor; several other serious (and even life-threatening) diseases may mimic the symptoms of hypoglycemia. Also, before making serious dietary changes we would strongly advise you to see a doctor or a nutritionist.
If you have any comments that may improve these documents we would be happy to receive your note at the address below.
Best regards,
The Hypoglycemia Survey Team
HypoTeam@Yahoo.com
Copyright © 1999 Hypoglycemia Survey Team. All rights reserved.
This document may not be sold for profit or incorporated
in commercial documents
ithout the written permission of the copyright holder.
| Archive-name | : | Hypoglycemia Survey Results |
|---|---|---|
| Archived-at | : | URL: http://huizen.dds.nl/~hypo/survey |
| Last-change | : | February 14, 1999 |
| Original-author | : | PK Placko <HypoTeam@Yahoo.com>. |
| Version | : | V 1.0 |
| Changes-posted-to | : | Hypoglycemia Mailing List server |
| First-draft | : | October 17, 1998 |
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