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<blockquote data-quote="Scott-C" data-source="post: 1867335" data-attributes="member: 374531"><p>[USER=401801]@JoKalsbeek[/USER] , one thing to bear in mind is that hypo symptoms like trembling aren't actually caused by low blood sugar, well, at least not directly. When your body senses bg dropping too low, autonomic sytem responses kick in to raise it. One of the main ones is releasing adrenalin to tell the liver to release glucose. It's the adrenalin rush which causes the trembling, not the low bg. It's why people shake after a car crash even when bg is fine - adrenalin rush.</p><p></p><p>You've described a couple of events which you found stressful, the photo-shoot and the zoo. Sure, there might have been some actual low bg going on there, difficult to say for sure without a bg test at the time, but don't rule out the possibility that the trembling etc. was not a hypo but just a normal bodily reaction to an adrenalin rush brought on by the stress of the situation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scott-C, post: 1867335, member: 374531"] [USER=401801]@JoKalsbeek[/USER] , one thing to bear in mind is that hypo symptoms like trembling aren't actually caused by low blood sugar, well, at least not directly. When your body senses bg dropping too low, autonomic sytem responses kick in to raise it. One of the main ones is releasing adrenalin to tell the liver to release glucose. It's the adrenalin rush which causes the trembling, not the low bg. It's why people shake after a car crash even when bg is fine - adrenalin rush. You've described a couple of events which you found stressful, the photo-shoot and the zoo. Sure, there might have been some actual low bg going on there, difficult to say for sure without a bg test at the time, but don't rule out the possibility that the trembling etc. was not a hypo but just a normal bodily reaction to an adrenalin rush brought on by the stress of the situation. [/QUOTE]
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