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Feeling low when blood sugar is fine

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I am a type one diabetic and i was just wondering if any one else has felt like this before. Just lately i have felt like i had low blood sugar but when i test it my b.s. is fine but i still feel like i need to eat something even though i don't rerally need to then when i do my next test before my meal my b.s. is obviously high i don't know why i am starting to feel like this. Has anyone else felt like this before i am on humalog and lantus insulin.
 
Have your numbers been running slightly higher than usual recently? If so it could be that your body has 'got used' to those levels so normal levels now feel low.
 
Steve said:
I am a type one diabetic and i was just wondering if any one else has felt like this before. Just lately i have felt like i had low blood sugar but when i test it my b.s. is fine but i still feel like i need to eat something even though i don't rerally need to then when i do my next test before my meal my b.s. is obviously high i don't know why i am starting to feel like this. Has anyone else felt like this before i am on humalog and lantus insulin.
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Hi Steve , yes I have actually , I have excellent hypo awareness and sometimes will feel hypo , test and I'm not , I think its usually because I am dropping faster than usual and so I am getting the hypo warning signs before I am technically hypo. Its hard not to eat when you feel like that though !! I always eat and then end up high and have to correct :(
 
Hi, I'm on tablets and not on insulin. Sometimes I feel like this when the sugars are on their way up or I'm feeling stressed out by something. It may be different for insulin users.

I hope you are feeling better soon.
 
Hi,
Over this last week i have felt low quite a lot but when i test im ok. but bgs have been up and down really quickly too, think i might just be coming down with something.

Julie x
 
hi,
im the same as caroline im on metformin and if im stressed or i am worrying over something they slowly shoot up
 
Hi Steve, this happens to me quite frequently, in fact it happened yesterday! I felt low, but was 7.0 which is actually quite high for me. I've come to realise that the reason is...I feel hungry! Yesterday I should have expected it as I had fasted for a blood test, but I think the thing is that you get so used to thinking that it is diabetes that is making you feel a certain way you forget that there are often other reasons. Everything that the others have said are possibilities, but just thought I'd throw in this one - sometimes we miss the obvious!🙂
 
Sounds to me like it could be a liver dump. Its possible to get hypo symptoms when BG is high, low, rising rapidly or falling rapidly. The clue is the later high, I think. So when you drop a little low, the liver dumps glucose into the bloodstream, causing a rapid rise leading to minor hypo symptoms. By the time you test it may not have got particularly high yet and is still on the way up.

Is it happening around a particular time after a meal? Could be that you are overdosing the bolus and dropping too low.
 
I'm too new at this Type 2 thing to be sure, but yes, I'm getting these symptoms too. Part of it could be stress due to my move home tomorrow, but most, I'm sure is down to the change in diet and lifestyle since diagnosis. My body wants sugar and isn't getting it as it used to. My BGL's all over the place at the moment too, though thankfully the general trend is down not up.
 
Hi Steve,
I've had this problem in the past before it is horrible because there is bascially not a lot you can do about it sometimes I find a glass of milk helps me after a little while to feel a bit better. It tends to happen also when my blood sugar is still dropping post meal it makes you feel terrible but you have to get used to it i suppose!

Emma
 
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