Hypoglycemia is rarely an anxiety cause
Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) can cause a variety of emotional and physical anxiety symptoms. These include anxiety as well as headache, lightheadedness, palpitations, sweating, shakiness, weakness, hunger, fatigue, nausea, and vomiting. It is important to realize that most people with anxiety disorder do not have hypoglycemia, despite the overtendency of some health care “professionals” to blame many physical and emotional problems on low blood sugar.
The unfortunate tendency to overdiagnose hypoglycemia may in fact hide the correct diagnosis and lead to inappropriate treatment. The diagnosis of hypoglycemia can be made conclusively only by actually finding abnormally low levels of sugar in several blood samples when symptoms are present. Clear relief of symptoms when blood sugar is raised to normal helps to confirm the diagnosis. In the rare instances in which anxiety is due to hypoglycemia, there are specific, effective medical treatments that are available to correct hypoglycemia.
If you feel anxiety on a regular basis and you can say to yourself that you indeed have some problems in social situations or out of the ordinary anxiety issues, then clearly there is some cause that’s making you feel this way. Hypoglycemia can simply be a byproduct of what you are doing that is causing you anxiety. Anxiety is a much stronger symptom, because it shows that there are areas in your life that are not taken care of.