Type 1: Sensations in lips when low

[diabetic0312]

Slightly random question but does anyone get a tingling sensation in their lips when they blood sugar is low? Or a tingling sensation anywhere else?

 

[Gaz-M]

yes, it is common and when first diagnosed one of the first warning signs as I remember

 

[CapnGrumpy]

Yes, I've had that sometimes - occasionally with a slightly numb tongue as well, which makes makes me poke it out which looks a little daft.

 

[azure]

Yes, that's very common. It's a weird feeling!

 

[Robinredbreast]

Mine used to be more of a numb feeling around my mouth, but that was along time ago.

 

[therower]

Hi @diabetic0312. Most definitely had the tingly lips.
Have you had the trembling eye thing yet? It's the one where no matter what you look at it seems to keep moving from side to side in a shaky sort of way.

 

[Snapsy]

@diabetic0312 I get the tingly lip thing too. And if I'm going mega-low mega-quickly (which hasn't happened since I started on a pump, but I used to do that a lot!) I get a strange clicky sound in my ears. Really odd!

These days, with far fewer lows than I used to have, my first hypo warning symptom is an awareness that I'm talking absolute rubbish. Fortunately it is something I am able to recognise myself - heaven help the people I'm talking to at the time, though.....!

 

[BeccyB]

Yes! I get a pale line around my lips too and when I was younger my mum used to know I was hypo before I did because of it!

I think it must be because our lips are a particularly sensitive part of the body - bad news for hypos but good for kissing

 

[mist]

Yep, I quite like it..

 

[Robinredbreast]

I called my numbness, numb around the gills lol

 

[Snapsy]

Yes! I get a pale line around my lips too and when I was younger my mum used to know I was hypo before I did because of it!

When my husband tells me I've got a white moustache (and not from drinking a glass of milk untidily) it means I'm going low.