My mouth goes numb

[type1db]

Something started happening very strange. When my blood sugar drops my mouth goes numb now. Anybody else every had this with lows?

[notme]

Yes db, that happens to me. Not always, but on some of the bad lows that I a have, my tongue and mouth goes numb. The low will be treated, but it takes quite awhile for the numbness to go away.

[KCP]

Yea i get that too.. have done for years! its gosh darn annoying cos it affects the taste of food so i dont even get to enjoy the food im using to increase my BS!!!

[Tiger Lily]

yup, my lips tingle and my mouth goes numb

and YES, i can only taste 'cardboard' when i'm having a 'treat' to treat my hypo......... most annoying!

sigh

[Stuboy]

yep same here... i get that with really low number of less than 2.5...

[morrisma]

I've had that a few times too. Most recently when my bs was 80 and I bolused for a pizza dinner that took WAY longer to arrive than expected.
Mike

[palefacegirl03]

I still get the numbness too. It takes awhile for it to go away.

Then I have the low blood sugar recovery hangover, those are lots of fun.

[patricia52]

Me too. Did not know what it was until after I was Dx. I would wake up with my lips tingling. Now when I feel my lips beginning to tingle I know I am going hypo.

[notme]

apparently, I get dumb also. ;) :o

[xMenace]

Yup. I know I'm in deep doohdah when it happens.

[sable_032592]

yeah, i get them too, but only when i'm really low... like under 3.5 (63)... at first, i thought it was something else, like an allergic reaction to something, but the numbness went away after i had some sugar & carbs, so it couldn't have been an allergy... it's just darn annoying though...

[parrotletzoo]

The numbing effect of lows went away when I started having hypoglycemia unawarenss but before that it happened during most of my lows.

Made orange juice taste like @$$. :)

[maya0606]

I never had that before that's weird... but when i go to bed and i had lows in teh middle of the night omg i have bad nightmares its crazy!!!! and I shake i cant even walk sometimes

[Type1Ely]

I get the numbness and tingling in my lips and tongue also when I'm really low. I don't even get the shakes anymore, so I only know that I'm low when I get the numbness/tingling or I get a sudden headache! However, one time I did get the numbness/tingling and my lips turned blue and so did my fingers and toes-turns out I was having an allergic reaction to a muscle relaxer(Flexeril), but I didn't think that it was an allergic reaction because I get the numbness/tingling when I hypo. Now I know to check every 2 hours even if I don't eat since I don't get the shakes anymore.

[Jill-O]

My lips will feel numb and also my finger tips.

[Cormac_Doyle]

My mouth goes slightly numb, but I also get a strange, almost metallic taste in my mouth.

It all goes away once you eat something ... but it sure makes the food taste weird!

[barbarac]

That is where I feel it first. Mouth feels numb or just plain funny--hard to describe. Then comes a sort of "high" as in an extra margaritta--not drugs!!

[mell1682]

Ooh mine does that too and my tongue goes numb. It's crazy

[drummingfool]

Yea, I can relate to this. I got that feeling wen I dropped down to 40 (2.2) about a week ago, I couldnt feel my freakin tounge!

[sugarsub]

my lips and hands.my arms feel prickly,i shake and sweat.usually 50 to 30 range

[lorilei]

yep, taste then tongue and right pinky and ring(?) toes..why the right, i simply don't know!

[xXKelliXx]

Yup it happens to me 2, and I hate it.
~Stacy.

[starrdbes]

This happens to me too - its rare, maybe it has happened two or three times? Both times I was out of the house, so I wonder if I had inadvertently missed the earlier signs of hypo on those days... I read about it afterwards, it is a normal, noted sign or symptom of low BG.