Does anyone else have this happen?

[Dboy]

Last night, I went out for my normal 30-35 minute high-intensity walk (not an oxymoron), at about 9:30PM. When I returned, I felt that my sugar was a bit low, as I was a bit shaky and lightheaded. Took my reading, and it was 92...The question I have is this: Whenever my sugar is 90 or below (maybe in the 80's, never really lower unless I am doing sustained activity), I can really feel it...for most this would be the high end of a desired bg reading, yet for me it feels like my sugar is low...Does anyone else have this happen?

Side note...After all of the good work I did yesterday, I binged on some of my son's cocoa puffs and corn pops, and expected to wake with a pretty high Bg, but it was 114, which is my lowest waking reading in months...

[duck]

You'll find that this will change. At some point in your relationship with this lovely disease, you'll be able to function normally at 70, but you'll realize you don't feel quite right and check and think to yourself "Wow. I should be shaking like a leaf." Then at some other point, you'll feel low at 114.

In general, you feel low at "normal" levels if you have been running high for a while, but that's not always the case. Another reason to embrace testing and lots of it.

[August]

Last night, I went out for my normal 30-35 minute high-intensity walk (not an oxymoron), at about 9:30PM. When I returned, I felt that my sugar was a bit low, as I was a bit shaky and lightheaded. Took my reading, and it was 92...The question I have is this: Whenever my sugar is 90 or below (maybe in the 80's, never really lower unless I am doing sustained activity), I can really feel it...for most this would be the high end of a desired bg reading, yet for me it feels like my sugar is low...Does anyone else have this happen?

After running out of control for years, it's normal to feel hypo when you first achieve normal blood sugars (under 95). In time this will pass as your brain adjusts to normal again. Nothing to be concerned about. Healthy active children can have a 'normal' BG of 75-77. Ditto for atheletes. Keep up those high-intensity walks, and you just might have cure.

August

[Cyborg]

Geez, I can feel normal in the 60's now. I make sure I always check my bg before I drive... :driver:

[NoraWI]

Every diabetic should check BGs before driving! I usually feel a hypo coming on starting at about 60 also. I always have glucose tabs with me. A really scary episode of a hypo while driving is described by James Hirsch (T1) in his just released book "Cheating Destiny." He had a whale of an accident while driving in a mental hypo fog. His diabetic 3-year-old son was in the back seat at the time. Luckily, neither one was hurt but the auto was demolished. I just finished the book and found it to be a very good read. Lots of good historic and current research information there, too, although I don't agree with some of his own control practices.

[xMenace]

I seem to feel low when I'm going low: I'll feel low, test fine, then sometime later go hypo.

[August]

I seem to feel low when I'm going low: I'll feel low, test fine, then sometime later go hypo.

Yes indeed!

That's because the brain is less insulin resistant than the rest of the body and registers a hypo long before the finger stick reveals it. Go with your feelings.

Maybe we need to do a "brain stick" instead of a finger stick. Hmmmmm. . . .

[duck]

Yes indeed!

That's because the brain is less insulin resistant than the rest of the body and registers a hypo long before the finger stick reveals it. Go with your feelings.

Maybe we need to do a "brain stick" instead of a finger stick. Hmmmmm. . . .

Is that what that is? I know that occasionally I will miscalculate a bolus, and I'll feel low even though a check will tell me I am in a good range. But knowing how much insulin is "on-board", I know I will go low if I do not correct. Interesting thought...

[Funnygrl]

Yes indeed!

That's because the brain is less insulin resistant than the rest of the body and registers a hypo long before the finger stick reveals it. Go with your feelings.

Maybe we need to do a "brain stick" instead of a finger stick. Hmmmmm. . . .
The brain isn't effected by body glucose levels usually, because it has it's own insulin supply. The brain's glucose level is often totally different from the rest of the body's.

[August]

The brain isn't effected by body glucose levels usually, because it has it's own insulin supply. The brain's glucose level is often totally different from the rest of the body's.

I'd appreciate it very much if you will point me to some documentation on the Internet or a book in support of the above statement?

August

[winterbanyan]

I don't know about the brain having a different bg. When I start shaking and can barely stand up (below 75) if I try to do a mental exercise -- say a Sudoku puzzle -- I will usually be horrified when I look at it later after things level out. It is soclear that my brain was malfunctioning and I didn't realize it.

An absolutely great reminder for me not to drive when there's any possibility of a low level.

[Funnygrl]

I'd appreciate it very much if you will point me to some documentation on the Internet or a book in support of the above statement?

August
Just google "brain insulin" and you will see multiple articles supporting the fact that the brain does indeed make insulin and that brain glucose levels are often different from the rest of the body.

I do need to renig a little though, and say that the brain is effected by hypoglycemia.

[trailrunner]

Lately, I have had fs in the mid 50's a feel fine. Which kinda scares the **** out of me.

[grace girl]

I've felt low at anything below 70, felt normal when below 70....felt hypo between 70-120....it's different at different times.
I personally think that the different types of insulins produce different hypos, and then there's that well, I'm low as opposed to it spiraling downward at a rapid pace....those two "feel" different.
I had what I call a "spiraling low" yesterday. I had no real symptoms, but I just knew I was going low. Tested 114. Had a snack. Tested 30 minutes later and I'm 100. If I hadn't eated I would have been in the dregs within 15 minutes.
I find that there is no SSDD with diabetes!

[shabbie6247]

(try saying that with no teeth in ha!)

my waking bg's are usually around 7.8 (140), if i go out for a 40 minute walk straight away (no breakfast) when i get in my bg is 8.8 (158) yet i feel famished!

something to do with your body producing sugars to feed your muscles when you exercise . after a while the body has used up this sugar and you need to 'top-up'

[Rekita2007]

I start feeling kinda weak and etc. when i get 100 and below, i don't know why but..............

[shabbie6247]

my hunger level anything lower than 5.5 (99), my hypo level is anything lower than 4 (72)

before i went on insulin i felt awful if i was lower than 7 (126)!

are you getting regular high readings?

[Kimber]

I sometimes feel shaky and test to see BG at 90 and have lately had 3 times I felt fine (really fine) and tested to find readings of 50. I don't know what to think of that. Diagnosed as type 2 in Dec, as type 1.5 end of March, am now on Lantus and orals.
Kimber