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10-07-2008, 05:32 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Mississippi
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| |  My mouth goes numb
Something started happening very strange. When my blood sugar drops my mouth goes numb now. Anybody else every had this with lows?
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10-07-2008, 05:35 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Northern California
Posts: 9,581
| | | 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.
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10-07-2008, 05:39 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Auckland
Posts: 368
| | | 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!!! |
10-07-2008, 07:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 162
| | | 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!
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10-08-2008, 05:37 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Portsmouth UK
Posts: 1,665
| | | yep same here... i get that with really low number of less than 2.5...
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10-08-2008, 06:15 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Landenberg, PA
Posts: 1,811
| | | 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
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10-08-2008, 07:18 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Texas
Posts: 1,037
| | | 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. |
10-08-2008, 09:20 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Alabama
Posts: 545
| | | 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.
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10-08-2008, 11:54 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Northern California
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| | apparently, I get dumb also.  
__________________ Nancy Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Teresa diagnosed type 1 October 1986
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10-08-2008, 02:26 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: New Brunswick Canada, eh
Posts: 8,948
| | | Yup. I know I'm in deep doohdah when it happens. |
10-08-2008, 02:30 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: st-paul, quebec, canada
Posts: 492
| | | 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...
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10-08-2008, 02:37 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Michigan
Posts: 715
| | The numbing effect of lows went away when I started having hypoglycemia unawarenss but before that it happened during most of my lows.
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10-08-2008, 02:59 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Canada, Toronto
Posts: 208
| | | 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
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10-13-2008, 08:17 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: USA-Virginia Beach,VA
Posts: 38
| | | 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.
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10-13-2008, 10:38 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Spotsylvania, VA (USA)
Posts: 1,656
| | | My lips will feel numb and also my finger tips.
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