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11-24-2007, 07:51 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Dallas, TX
Posts: 15
| | | Can you feel your blood sugars going up and down?
My husband thinks I am crazy, but I have got to ask my fellow Type 1's.
I can feel my blood sugars going up or down. I'm not talking about feeling low or high but I know when they are moving. I know that sounds bizarre but I swear I'm not crazy (and I'm usually 98% right when it does happen)
Anyone else experience this? |
11-24-2007, 08:11 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Southern USA
Posts: 1,500
| | | I don't know if "feel" is the right word for me, but I can tell. I've learned to recognize it over time. I wouldn't trust it as far as correcting for a high or treating a low, but I've learned to test when I notice it and I'm usually right.
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Incorrectly dx'ed type 2 7/00 
Correctly dx'ed type 1 5/01
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Lantus 2x daily & Humalog
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11-25-2007, 01:35 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: UK
Posts: 854
| | | Yes I notice the my bs levels changing too.
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11-25-2007, 02:18 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Texas
Posts: 379
| | | I can definetely feel when my BS starts to drop too low because I get hungry and very irratable. If my BS is starting to get a little high I smell something in my sinuses, like an alcohol smell in my nose, yeah its weird. |
11-25-2007, 04:17 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Hastings Melbourne Australia
Posts: 3,110
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Originally Posted by Kristinabalina  I can feel my blood sugars going up or down. I'm not talking about feeling low or high but I know when they are moving. Anyone else experience this? | I have the same feeling as I know coming from a low you feel great.  But going low that is reverse. 
With this you would think that we don't need meters but we are not that sure are we?? |
11-25-2007, 04:24 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 113
| | | I normaly know when i'm low, high or normal. i'm normaly about right as well. I think if blood monitors were not around then I think I would cope perfectly well without one |
11-25-2007, 08:25 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Mid-Missouri
Posts: 223
| | I can usually tell too. Sometimes when I get nervous, I feel the same way I do at the beginning stages of a hypo. Do you ever feel that?  |
11-25-2007, 08:30 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Canada, Prince Edward Island
Posts: 476
| | | My wife knows that I' high before I do - as I have a sweet smell that comes off my breath. The Odd time I can smell it as well when I'm high, like if I yawn or something.
I have also heard of some people that get headaches going from high to low and vice-versa.
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Type 1
Dx June 21st 2007
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June 22, 2007 - 12.8
September 27, 2007 - 6.6
January 3, 2008 - 6.0
April 16, 2008 - 6.1
July 21, 2008 - 5.5
October 8, 2008 - 6.1
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11-25-2007, 08:57 AM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Orlando, FL
Posts: 7,846
| | | Whenever my bg is a little high or a little low I almost always feel it...
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11-25-2007, 09:17 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Rothesay, New Brunswick Canada, eh
Posts: 7,119
| | Yes, but I drink a lot of coffee which I find masks things  My evil eye knows though. As I get higher, it gets 'tighter' and blurrier.  |
11-25-2007, 09:23 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Dallas, TX
Posts: 15
| | | When I was little my Mom could smell the sweet smell on my breathe and know I was high.
The feeling I am talking about is like when you drink a cup of coffee first thing in the morning and you get that buzzing feeling in your veins. Do you know what I mean? Like you can feel the caffeine rushing through your veins.
I can feel when I am too high or too low but it's the in between. |
11-25-2007, 10:27 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Corpus Christi, Tx
Posts: 95
| | | I'm a T2 but I can feel it when my BS is changing, especially if it's moving fast. It may still be within the normal range but a rapid change makes me lightheaded. Feels completely different than a high or a low. |
11-25-2007, 11:21 AM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Grove City Ohio
Posts: 2,156
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Originally Posted by Cyborg Whenever my bg is a little high or a little low I almost always feel it... | Same here. My feet feel like I walked 10 miles with no shoes on, when my BS get above 250. Only way I know I am low, is my hypo feeling I get at about 50.
__________________ Jim  Diagnosed April 1990 Pumping with the OmniPod now
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11-25-2007, 07:59 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: The music wasteland of CT
Posts: 172
| | | I can feel when I go over 150, but on the other hand I don't feel my lows until it's well below 50. And I can feel it when it's making a rapid swing in either direction, even if it's not going off the chart in either way.
But all of this has only been since I started pumping. Previously I could only tell when I was reaching seriously high numbers, over 300 or so.
Mike
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Can I get a little more bass in my monitor?
You obviously don't know how to have fun.
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11-26-2007, 11:39 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Bellevue, WA
Posts: 649
| | | I can usually tell. It's how I figured out I was diabetic. I actually feel the worst when my bg is going up quickly.
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