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Type 2 Odd feelings

woollygal

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So earlier I felt like I was really low (well 4 which for me is low) but I was an 8!

Couple hours later and went down to 6 but I still felt incredibly low, shaker very very very empty etc.

I can’t still be having false hypos because for the last couple of weeks my levels have been good and I have been on 5s and not felt as odd as today.

It is the time of the month today.
I’ve eaten but to be honest I still feel oddish. I’m full but still feel emptyish.

Just wondered if it’s possible to have higher sugars but still feel lowish?
 
Feeling low and a bit "emptyish" is a bit vague to be honest.
 
Guzzler said:
Feeling low and a bit "emptyish" is a bit vague to be honest.
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Sorry!
To be honest it was just difficult to explain.

Ok so you know when you get so hungry you just feel completely empty. Stomach, arms legs just feel empty. It was that.

Low I mean in terms of sugars, so apart from a couple of anomalies which hinted high (eyes were appalling) I felt low sugars.
So confusion, brain just not focusing or processing anything,
 
Guzzler said:
Feeling low and a bit "emptyish" is a bit vague to be honest.
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Sorry, just really difficult to explain

Empty I mean that feeling when you are so hungry you feel like stomach and arms and legs are just empty.
There is nothing there.

Low I mean sugars, so apart from couple anomaly’s that hunted high (appalling vision) I felt low as in 4s, I felt like I had shakes hands, confused, difficulty concentrating focusing etc.

As an aside, is it possible to be starving hungry but also have high sugars?
 

Cana - After you'd been at the 8, did you check the 8 was correct by retesting? When did you next test after the 8 and what had it gone to?

Could you possibly have been "empty", as in plain old underfuelled? Sometimes as we adjust our diets our hungry signs change a bit; especially if our previous hungry has been a carb-craving style of hungry.

I think in reality, it's difficult to draw too many conclusions, based on one occurrence, but maybe note it down, in as much detail as you can, and see if it happens again, and if it does, how closely it mirrors this iteration.
 
I know what you mean. It used to happen to me just before my period, for some unknown reason. Best wishes. See if it happens again next month.
 

I was hungry, hadn’t really eaten much all day. Had had my half of cheese roll so that explains the 8.

I did retest on left hand and it was same.

Think it was couple hours later that I was still starving and thought better eat and still was a 6.

I guess I assumed if you were hungry it means you would be lower but if high you wouldn’t be hungry.
To be fair as well the last two evening (wed and thurs ) I had peanut butter for dinner.

I was starving but just couldn’t be bothered to cook or eat. So wondered if if was just pack if proper food lol
 
lucylocket61 said:
I know what you mean. It used to happen to me just before my period, for some unknown reason. Best wishes. See if it happens again next month.
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Yay thought I was going mad!!
It was the first day of my period yesterday so whether that mucked it up I don’t know.

But to be higher and starving just dues to seem right
 

Cana - Sometimes if we get really hungry, our liver throw out a dollop of glucsoe to tide us over until we eat. Sometimes it can be a bit enthusiastic about it all, and go OTT - especially if the individual has been running higher for a while.

I can't be sure that's what happened, but it's one possibility. I'd wait and see if it happens again, and see if you can pick up a trend.

I can't comment on the following text, as I'm not sure what you mean: "So wondered if if was just pack if proper food".
 

Ahhh I thought that only happened in the mornings.

That makes sense now, so that why we can’t really get hypos like t1s.

Sorry spell check!! I wondered if it was just a lack of proper food, having not eaten a proper dinner for two nights but peanut butter.
 

Oh, no, not just in the mornings - I regularly get liver dump in the late afternoon if I've skipped breakfast and lunch.
 
Chook said:
Oh, no, not just in the mornings - I regularly get liver dump in the late afternoon if I've skipped breakfast and lunch.
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So we need to eat regularly to avoid the spikes that causes?

Lordy I’ve been getting it all wrong.
 
Well, I wouldn't call it a spike (just a bit of a blip) and I usually just ignore it.
 
Cana said:
So we need to eat regularly to avoid the spikes that causes?

Lordy I’ve been getting it all wrong.
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Cana - Don't beat yourself up, and thanks for explaing the earlier text I couldn't underrstand.

Liver dumps can happen any time, and these days, I can actually feel it happening - not in my liver area, but I get a funny feeling in my throat. Of coure, I'm odd anyway!

In terms of liver dumps? I embrace them. All you arre doing is borrowing some of the liver's store. As soon as you eat again it refills the liver. That might all sound like bad news, but often when one eats afterr a liver dump, we see less of a blood sugar rise, because the blood sugar generated (by what we have eaten) is diverted to rrecharge the liver, rather than circulat n the more usual way.

Our liver is a great safety net in that regard, but our body will keep it topped up, "for later".

I'm sur sure I've explained that too well.
 
I can have a liver dump anytime, if i forget to eat or leave it longer than usual or eat less than usual.
 
I eat two meals almost exactly twelve hours apart - it keeps my liver and anything else involved, in a happy state, or so it seems.
I have a vitamin and mineral tablet - a fizzy drink one a couple of times a week and then a more comprehensive all requirement one once a week. That seems to be the best way to nourish this particular bod - so far so good anyway.
I remind myself to take a bottle of water out with me on excursions, check that I have low carb foods in the fridge and freezer - just small things which reduce strain. I have had to tell myself that I am not indestructible and need to look after myself - even if I don't really believe it quite yet.
 

By the way, us Type 2 people can have hypos, its less common but it can happen.
 
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