What does high blood sugar feel like?

[bike2work]

I've had problems with hypoglycemia since elementary school. I've assumed that I am pre-diabetic for years (now 45 y.o.).

I had to go back on wheat for a blood test tomorrow. So I've been on SAD for two weeks now. Tonight I ate pizza with beer, probably for the last time. But soon after eating I began to have a weird trembly feeling.

What does high blood sugar feel like? Is there anything I should do?

[Sunflwr1]

What does high blood sugar feel like? Is there anything I should do?I don't think you do feel any different... at least I don't. That's why they call T2 The Silent Killer.

JMO

[bike2work]

Thanks Marcia. Maybe I'm just paranoid after years of reading pro-LC stuff. I do feel charged up though. That's unusual for me. The trembly thing has stopped.

[CarolynC]

I usually don't feel any different when my blood sugar is high than I do otherwise. On the very rare occasions when my blood sugar has been very very high (above about 350), I've felt shaky and drained and generally awful.

[bike2work]

On the very rare occasions when my blood sugar has been very very high (above about 350), I've felt shaky and drained and generally awful.
I'm sorry you've been through that; it sounds awful.

That's not even similar to what I'm feeling, so maybe it's just something else.

A migraine is now setting in, reconfirming my suspicion that gluten is responsible for my chronic headaches and migraines. Hopefully the blood test will confirm it and I'll have a solution.

Thanks for the replies.

[Korban]

What does high blood sugar feel like? Is there anything I should do?
My BG ran in the mid 200's to 300 plus for at least 4 or so months. Once I began low carbing and using meds to normalize the BG... I noticed I was no longer depressed and I had energy that I hadn't had in sometime. Best of all, my kids and wife talked to me. Lowering my BG caused them to change amazingly... :)

Actually, I don't know if depression and lack of energy is a sign of high blood glucose. It could be that, or changing diet, or combo, or phase of the moon for all I know. I just know there was a marked change in my being after I began LCing and began controlling BG to normal ranges. I suspect people have a variety of reactions or none at all.

On the low end I have only been (to my knowledge) at 50 mg/dl and I had no symptions except I noticed I was hungry... fortunately, I no longer take glipizide... I just couldn't get the timing down with that med. My sister-in-law, a diabetic, just about comes out of her skin at 50.

/smile

[Nancy LC]

A migraine is now setting in, reconfirming my suspicion that gluten is responsible for my chronic headaches and migraines. Hopefully the blood test will confirm it and I'll have a solution.

Thanks for the replies.

I hope you're not counting on that. You have to have complete villious atrophy in your intestines to get a positive blood test, in most cases. Which usually requires years of eating gluten.

Hopefully you've figured out by your own dietary trials that you have a problem and will do what needs to be done. You don't need an unreliable test to tell you, right?

[dancinbr]

I agree T2 is a silent killer.

I didn't fell any different with BG at 350 and A1C at 9.3 than I do now with BG getting down under 100 approaching 85 this year as an average and my A1C at 5.4 and heading down.

Where you do feel differently is if your BG goes too low.

For me going into 60s can become an issue.

I get shakey and feel "funny"; cannot put words to it.

But I recognize the feeling.

Yesterday, I finally made it out to play golf for the first time in 4 years and here I was an avid golfer.

I started with a BG of 91 and then ate a sandwich with 2 regular slices of white bread, which normally would raise my BG up to about 130.

I then played nine holes walking all the way.

Around the 7th hole I lost energy, started getting sloppy with my shots, etc., etc.,

I finally stopped after the nine and didn't play the complete 18.

I measured my BG and to my surprise it had dropped to 45!!! Yikes. This is dangerous!

I quickly consumed about 6-7 glucose tabs and got it back up into the 90s in short time.

Lesson learned. Golf is prolonged exercise. So, I will have fruits along with me even a chocolate bar and take measurements around every 4th hole to make sure my BG isn't diving.

Ralph

[Nancy LC]

I don't know exactly if it is high BG but if I eat a lot of bad stuff my heart pounds and my pulse races. It really is a nasty feeling. I used to do a diet that required "carb loading" and I'd get that every time. Funny thing is, a number of other people reported the same symptoms.

My sister thinks her husband gets crabby when his BG is high.

[Korban]

My sister thinks her husband gets crabby when his BG is high.

/raises hand... (my wife picks it up before I do usually; fortunately, 145 is now high for me, not 330).

I should have mentioned in the earlier post that perhaps I do not feel symptomatic at a bg of 50 because I (must) take a beta blocker. They are known to be a cause of hypoglycemic unawareness.

/smile

[SeaDog20]

I hope I'm not crazy here, but I also feel bad when my sugar changes rapidly either up or down. When my sugar goes down quick I tend to have foot pain like someone hit my toes with a hammer and/or like stepping on a nail. When my sugar goes higher than 200. I tend to get angry easy and am prone to headaches.

[Korban]

I hope I'm not crazy here, but I also feel bad when my sugar changes rapidly either up or down. When my sugar goes down quick I tend to have foot pain like someone hit my toes with a hammer and/or like stepping on a nail. When my sugar goes higher than 200. I tend to get angry easy and am prone to headaches.

Ahh, yeah you are probably just crazy...


...or maybe diabetic.:) 200 is not good for a diabetic (statement of the obvious) unless you went to my old Doctor. I hope you are LCing.

/smile

[Rose1942]

The only thing that I can add to this thread is that when I had my glucose tolerance test, and it showed a BG of 300 at one hour, the nurse asked me if I was feeling all right, and if my vision was blurry (no). She had noticed that I was reading a book in the waiting room and thought maybe I was having problems due to the high BG. But I didn't. Makes me think that some people do though, if she was on the alert for blurry vision etc.

[mimianvy]

I just feel "BLAA" and my eyes are do get fuzzie.

mimi