Pre-diabetes/diabetes/hypoglycemic/hypochondriac
Posted By: Blood sugar woes... on 2008-02-10
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Okay, I've been feeling really weird the past couple of days (yes, that's an official medical term; it's right up there with icky, which I will be using later). The first time, it felt like my blood sugar was too low, but that didn't make sense since I had just eaten a sausage 'n' mushroom omelet. Went to lay down, and kept waking up feeling like I was going to pass out. Make any sense? Had that horrible feeling off and on all day yesterday, then again today. Finally got smart enought to get the old glucometer out and it read 112. Had a bologna, cheese and ketchup sandwich a little later, then tried having nothing for 2 hours. About 1 3/4 hours later, I started feeling really icky again. I tested and it was 106. Had some orange juice and I felt a little better. Had supper and felt a lot better. Two hours with nothing but water, and the retest put me at 80.
I've spent half the night on Google, then again, I got smart enough to throw the question out here... WHAT'S GOING ON?  Maybe it's not even my sugar... maybe I just had some bad eggs. Or maybe it's high blood pressure and I'm just looking at the wrong thing.
Shaky, nauseas, spacy, tired, like I'm going to pass out, headache, and my face 'throbs' (I'm sure there's more), but the numbers don't make sense.
I know, go to the doctor, right? I'll be calling to schedule a complete physical sometime this next week. In the meantime, just wondered what y'all thought?
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Most docs stink these days. And they think everyone is a hypochondriac
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Thank you :)
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