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03-10-2007, 05:58 AM
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| |  No taste ......
I had a bad low last night. The food I was eating to bring my sugar up tasted horrible nothing like it should taste. Did this ever happen to anyone, that you lost your taste during a low ?
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03-10-2007, 06:24 AM
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| | That has happened to me before, but not in years. I read a book many years ago about a British girl's experience with diabetes and working with Mother Teresa called Metal Jam, referring to the way jam tastes during a hypo. And when she would go low teaching her class, she would take all her clothes off.  |
03-10-2007, 06:39 AM
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Originally Posted by flash  Did this ever happen to anyone, that you lost your taste during a low ? | Yes, but only if I'm really low (which I am this morning, coincidentally) . Everything seems to have the same taste - almost like your tongue is numb.
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03-10-2007, 07:53 AM
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| | | if I have a really bad low that has slipped in without the normal warning signs, then I can get a metallic taste.
I always assumed it was due to the low (usually around the 2mmol/35 mark) playing havoc with my brain. |
03-10-2007, 08:31 AM
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| | | I've had it happen many times when my blood sugar is low. Can't taste anything.
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03-10-2007, 08:33 AM
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Originally Posted by LancetChick That has happened to me before, but not in years. I read a book many years ago about a British girl's experience with diabetes and working with Mother Teresa called Metal Jam, referring to the way jam tastes during a hypo. And when she would go low teaching her class, she would take all her clothes off. |
Life is so unfair. Why didn't I ever have a teacher like that? Considering the teachers I had, that was actually a good thing.
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03-10-2007, 09:14 AM
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| | | your right about the taste of food when bring up a low, but what I've also found is it seems when I'm low it's hard for me to eat because I feel full... it's sometimes hard to take in food... bring on the coke...
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03-10-2007, 02:07 PM
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| | | Metalic .....
Thats what it was like a metalic taste, I didn't even feel the low coming on which is new to me.
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03-10-2007, 02:45 PM
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| | | Yup, I always get this when I go low; a metalic taste, and the tip of my tounge feels slightly numb.
Whilst it's not the most pleasant thing in the world, at least I know I'm in need of something sweet which is more than some poor folks get... |
03-10-2007, 09:44 PM
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| | | I am actually the opposite. Everything tastes really good when I am low, and I get extremely hungry.
The months leading up to my diagnosis though I couldn't eat anything becasue everything tasted like metal to me, even water... but I was extremely HIGH. Hmmm...
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03-10-2007, 10:13 PM
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| | | I have a bit of both. Sometimes when I am low, it's SO hard to eat anything because I am full and so I need drink instead, and anything I eat tastes terrible.
Other times, I can't get enough of ANYTHING when I'm low. I want to eat it all. It's actually frustrating! |
03-10-2007, 10:38 PM
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| | | i have had both in the past... metallic taste and loss of taste.
similar to jenn i find i don't want to eat when i'm low. i'm hungry at the beguinning of a low, but the lower i become the less and less i want to eat...
i think that's normal though... cause the sugar has been release into the muscles etc they body believes there is enough glucose circulating...? same in reverse when you're high. i know i'm always hungry when i'm high... (that was off topic wasn't it?!?)
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03-11-2007, 05:55 AM
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| | IMO, treating lows with food, especially bad lows, is a bad idea... 
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03-11-2007, 08:17 AM
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| | | oh that happened to me last week I used a soda and it tasted awful and then the metallic yuck taste, I was a little nervous because that symptom hasn't happened in years.....but I see a lot experience that so it makes me feel better now......whew.....
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03-11-2007, 10:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Cyborg IMO, treating lows with food, especially bad lows, is a bad idea... | I agree, I think juice is still the best for me, food takes too long but if I feel my BS is slowly dropping I prevent it with a few crackers or chips. |
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