Shakey when I woke up

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Bonnie23

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Hi,

I've been diagnosed T2 for just under a week. I think I've been doing well. One portion of carbs a day e.g. a small jacket potato, no processed sugars, lots of veggies, fruit and protein and I've been feeling so much better until today.

I woke up late today and found myself really shakey and dizzy and I hadn't eaten in around 14 hours. My testing meter hasn't arrived yet and I'm not sure if I could have been the start of a hypo or just low blood sugar in general? I had a sugary drink and some food and feel better but it has scared me a little.

I have had this in the past but I wasn't diagnosed at that point. I'm just wanting to check if people agree that it could have just been low blood sugar.
 
It could have been just yr bod reacting to BG lower than what it's come to expect. It's pretty common when you start to get things under control & probably not anything to worry about - should pass.

But obviously if it recurs more than occasionally or it gets worse, talk to yr doc.
 
by saying your blood meter hasn't arrived yet I would be correct in presuming you aren't on any glucose lowering medication so it was probably just that you were a tad lower than what your body is used to, hypo's don't generally occur unless your on the likes of insulin, gliclazide etc, when feeling like that you can try and trick your brain by eating something like cheese etc to stop the shaking etc or even just a biscuit but I wouldn't suggest full sugar drinks for someone in your position as that would just put you the other way xx
 
I felt like that a few times to start with. It does make you feel rubbish but it passes pretty quickly I just put it down to my body having a strop because it wasn’t getting the sugar it usually did. I was told to have a cup of tea and a biscuit and it really did help. After the first week or so it has t happened since
 
I find it far better to avoid high carb foods in small amounts and go for low carb foods in general - you can get a 'ping pong' effect of eating just a small amount of a high carb food, the pancreas responds by over producing insulin, your blood glucose drops rapidly, you feel wobbly, eat more carbs - levels up and down like a fiddler's elbow.
Be careful of fruit - it is easy to overdo the carbs from that too.
 
If you’re newly diagnosed your blood sugar was probably running higher than normal for quite a while, the human body is miraculous really, it adjusts to the new normal quite quickly, so a sudden drop in blood sugar can be very uncomfortable. There’s something called a false hypo, which is a phrase I hate, because it implies it’s nothing, but it’s your body reacting to the drop in blood sugar the same way it would if it went to dangerously low levels. So even though it isn’t dangerous because your blood sugar is still at a safe level, your body is experiencing the same reaction it would when it’s very low. Generally it settles down within a few weeks, but it might help to reduce your food intake a bit more slowly. When your meter arrives it will most likely feel a bit more comfortable because you’ll know if your blood sugar is low, so that will help. In the meantime if it distressing you then do what feels comfortable for now and reassess when you have a better picture of what’s really going on. I had really bad “false hypos” after diagnosis, but I’d been rocking blood sugar in the high 20s and insulin reduces levels very quickly. Diabetes is a long game, so slow and steady is my preferred approach, but obviously you do what works best for you. Kaylz suggestion of eating something that isn’t carb based really helps with false hypos, but again I understand if you want to see numbers before you try that.

Hope it settles quickly for you 🙂
 
just been reading this post i am only on the second week of medication for t2 and last week seemed okay but now feeling what i call rough so presuming that i may be going through the same phase, just hope it passes quickly and begins to settle down., went undiagnosed for a long long time.
 
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