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Hi guys! Seeing as recently I seem to be low a lot (in the 2s 3+ times a day) I figured I'd see if anyone knew a bit more about it. When I go low in the night (which is rare) my liver kicks in and I end up feeling ****** but perfectly alive the next morning. How low do you have to be for this to happen, as I thought it was only when I'd had a seizure but low glycogen reserves could account for my recent issues:
Basically I have been low a lot, but each subsequent low is harder to recover from than the last (anyone know why?); my head's now almost permanently kind of fuzzy and am finding it difficult to focus at all. Also a lot of my lows have been taking a much longer time than usual to come up from regardless of what I eat, and/or are shortly followed by another low, or sometimes 3 or 4 over a couple of hours. Does your liver normally kick in to help you recover from a low even if it wasn't extreme, and could my repeated lows and lack of recovery time be the reason I suddenly seem to be less able to recover? Also I'm dropping very very quickly whenever I do even very moderate exercise (even a lazy jog/leisurely cycle has in recent weeks seen me plummet by more than 6-8 over just 20-30 minutes, which is annoying as a lot of this year I've been exercising quite intensely with few major issues)...any ideas why this could be happening?
I have moved down south for a month or so recently, but despite that my level of activity is pretty similar, and I work long shifts but have been doing that throughout my time at uni so that's not any different. I'm not under any major stress or anything (which would normally make me go low) but it's the repeated lows themselves that are getting to me! I got back from a 12-hour shift on friday, my auntie asked if I was ok cause I looked awful, and I promptly burst into tears cause I'd been low about 4 times quite badly that afternoon and my emotions were just all over the place! I'm starting to get worried to do anything, like I do have stuff with me in case I go low but it sucks the life out of me when it's happened a few times and I still have to walk the rest of that 5k/stay for four more hours at work/pretend I'm fine and want to enjoy a sociable meal out cause nobody would get it...I don't know how best to limit the effects/extent of my lows without just stopping doing anything Any advice welcome!
Basically I have been low a lot, but each subsequent low is harder to recover from than the last (anyone know why?); my head's now almost permanently kind of fuzzy and am finding it difficult to focus at all. Also a lot of my lows have been taking a much longer time than usual to come up from regardless of what I eat, and/or are shortly followed by another low, or sometimes 3 or 4 over a couple of hours. Does your liver normally kick in to help you recover from a low even if it wasn't extreme, and could my repeated lows and lack of recovery time be the reason I suddenly seem to be less able to recover? Also I'm dropping very very quickly whenever I do even very moderate exercise (even a lazy jog/leisurely cycle has in recent weeks seen me plummet by more than 6-8 over just 20-30 minutes, which is annoying as a lot of this year I've been exercising quite intensely with few major issues)...any ideas why this could be happening?
I have moved down south for a month or so recently, but despite that my level of activity is pretty similar, and I work long shifts but have been doing that throughout my time at uni so that's not any different. I'm not under any major stress or anything (which would normally make me go low) but it's the repeated lows themselves that are getting to me! I got back from a 12-hour shift on friday, my auntie asked if I was ok cause I looked awful, and I promptly burst into tears cause I'd been low about 4 times quite badly that afternoon and my emotions were just all over the place! I'm starting to get worried to do anything, like I do have stuff with me in case I go low but it sucks the life out of me when it's happened a few times and I still have to walk the rest of that 5k/stay for four more hours at work/pretend I'm fine and want to enjoy a sociable meal out cause nobody would get it...I don't know how best to limit the effects/extent of my lows without just stopping doing anything Any advice welcome!