Energy production and autonomic dysfunction: how are they connected?

It started over forty years ago when I did not understand the energy problems of ME and I became very frustrated because every time I felt a bit better and did more I would get attacks of feeling ill, dizzy and confused till I finally became completely unable to move.

When I asked my GP I was told it was panic attacks which was ludicrous. I explained that it was bad if I did not eat enough carbohydrates but was told curtly that a calorie was a calorie so that was me on my own.

I always carry an emergency chocolate bar though I eat very little of such things at other times (may as well enjoy it!)

It always happened when I went shopping with my husband. He would leave me in my wheelchair while he went to McDonalds (the only place selling lunch so early) A can of coke worked magic.

Once I was at a disabled centre waiting for a taxi home. I struggled to ask for a biscuit and was eating it when the taxi arrived. He helped me in as I looked very disabled but before I got home I was back to normal and he thought it was a miracle that a biscuit could do that.

Nowadays I have diabetes and my blood sugar machine tells me it happens when I have a hypo. Simple test no one ever did

From this thread I now wonder if the salt helped as well. Glucose tablet did not work for me yet works for my type 1 diabetic grandson.

We need doctors who understand ME enough to see these things in an ME context.