douglas

Since I can remember, I've always had certain symptoms of being low. A funny feeling in my stomach, shaking, cold sweats, feeling tired, slow or incomplete thoughts. Depending on the low, sometimes certain symptoms would be worse than others. Almost every single time, I got this feeling in my stomach kind of like butterflies. Lately, I've been having some of these low symptoms when my blood sugar is not even close to a low. I get the feeling in my stomach, I feel shaky, I even start slurring my words. I check and I'm fine. 141. 126. Even 204. So why do I feel low?

I've heard of hypoglycemia unawareness (which for the past two years I've struggled with) where you get low and don't feel any symptoms. This happened just the other day. I felt fine, as if I could have run a mile. I decided to check since feeling fine seems to be very rare these days. 51. Definitely not a number I want to see when I feel like running a mile. Hypoglycemia unawareness seems inevitable after fifteen years of diabetes and numerous lows (often in the same day). Is there such a thing as hypoglycemia OVER awareness?

Maybe the slightest drop in my blood sugar is causing me to feel that funny feeling. Maybe it's just a feeling that every human gets and I only relate it to lows. Maybe it's because of other health issues. Maybe after years of running in the two and three hundreds, I've made my body think anything below that is low. Maybe it's the after effect of lows in the last few days. Maybe it's just something I need to get used to.

It doesn't seem like I can get used to it though. I can't ignore it because I do get low and have the symptoms. I can't possibly check every time I get this feeling (especially since it might last for hours). My poor fingers will fall off. Plus it's very distracting never knowing where my blood sugar might be when I feel this way. I'm really at a loss as to what to do. Is this just a part of diabetes life? As we age in our diabetes years, we lose our low awareness and gain low over awareness? Sounds crummy either way.