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Random question does anyone else feel when there blood sugar is high?

Lulu9101112

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being diabetic ussually you feel when yours sugars low. But a couple of people I know that are diabetic are not able to feel when there high but for some raason I actually know when my bloods high because if my bloods high I tend to be rude (without realising it sometimes something I hate it's really annoying when it happens on public transport especially. This nearly happend today) and then I stop being rude as soon as I test and do my injection.

Does anyone else recognise when there bloods high?
 
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I'm not type one, but am in ketosis.
I feel it every time I even spike a little.

Your awareness will get better the more time you spend in or near normal levels.
 
Lamont D said:
I'm not type one, but am in ketosis.
I feel it every time I even spike a little.

Your awareness will get better the more time you spend in or near normal levels.
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yeah or if you have Diabeties for a long time
 
I can certainly feel when I'm high, more from physical symptoms of hyperurination and thirst, but also difficulty concentrating or thinking anything too complex.
 
Obviously there are the feelings of being tired, thirsty, and urinating frequently, as well as a tendency towards headaches, but I also tend to get very 'ratty' when I'm higher, and everything is slightly fuzzy in terms of thinking and doing.
 
EllsKBells said:
Obviously there are the feelings of being tired, thirsty, and urinating frequently, as well as a tendency towards headaches, but I also tend to get very 'ratty' when I'm higher, and everything is slightly fuzzy in terms of thinking and doing.
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When you mean ratty do you mean like. angry/bad behaved?
 
Quite new to this - but no. I feel the same no matter what my BG is. I wish I did know when it was high - I could measure less
 
@Lulu9101112

Yes, like I'm on the edge of having a temper tantrum! I get annoyed by very, very small things, and can snap very easily. My patience evaporates, and everything is inordinately frustrating to me. It also becomes very difficult to settle to doing anything.
 
yeah I know what you mean now.
 
Looking back I was tired, grumpy and exhausted all the time. I didn't realize it was because my BG was averaging 16.
Now I get dizzy and flushed.
 
When I couldn't get my levels down, I didn't actually "feel" they were high however I had all the symptoms; the thirst, the urination, the hot flushes, the aggression, the inability to not be able to think straight. Several Doctors actually told me that I look amazingly good despite what my test results were showing.
 
Some people with diabetes sometimes feel this correctly some do not. But, the meter always knows. If the BG is 140 mg/dl and over it starts to effect everybody with diabetes and it gradually starts to effect the emotions, perceptions and the attitude, ...feel good hormones in the brain , all this happens automatically.

The only solution is to try to do the best to keep the BG well under 140 mg/dl.

When your levels are in your normal range and when something makes you upset and angry, unlike the general belief of effecting a lot, your BG maximum rises only by 10 % but, carb consumption more than your necessary need increase it greatly.

8 out of 10 times, I feel the highs correctly. And people around me also too
 
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Sorry what do you mean by 140 (I've always used . (4.0-7.9 I've always been told is the normal range) system is that a different system?
 
Lulu9101112 said:
Sorry what do you mean by 140 (I've always used . (4.0-7.9 I've always been told is the normal range) system is that a different system?
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140mg/dL = 7.8mmol/L

We measure blood sugar in millimoles per litre. Other countries measure blood sugar in milligrams per deci-litre. Divide mg/dL by 18 to get an estimate of the mmol/L equivalent.
 
@Lulu9101112

Yes, that is the system you use in UK and I don't live there and we use the other one but, I looked to one of the tables which is available on the forums and if I am correct it is;

140 mg/dL = 7.8 mmol/L

if what you have written BG of (4.0-7.9) as your normal range by your doctor, take that as the correct figures for yourself as each person with diabetes is different and as different as finger prints and you are T1 and your doctors know your condition and what figures they give to you are the correct ones. Try to be within your figures so you normally will always be in control of your emotions.
 
Thanks.
I was just wondering as we've always used the .system even when we lived outside uk
 
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