Well, ideally you should start feeling hungry quite some time before experiencing hypoglycemia.
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I’m gonna tell you what nobody here has yet:
Go see a doctor
Your symptoms could possibly indicate a serious condition, and that’s something you need to take care of. Soon.
Diabetes? #NotADoctor
Also not a doctor but glucometers can be cheap, not that scary, and answer exactly this question.
~~As far as I'm aware, diabetes will lead to hyperglycemia, not hypo. Taking insulin for diabetes in excess of what's needed or not eating enough while on insulin will lead to hypoglycemia.~~
It appears this information is incorrect.
Hi type 1 diabetic here, yeah the other person pretty much said it all, but yeah blood sugar go can both hypo and hyper as diabetics basically have no means for regulating blood sugar. For me my blood sugar tends to run high either cus of my anxiety of going low or miscounting carbs (thank god for my sensor that automatically gives insulin). However if I’m feeling stressed or I’m working for 3 hours without a snack my blood sugar drops
Bonus fact: insulin acts like a key for the glucose in the blood to get to cells, so without insulin glucose accumulates in the blood, but it also helps your blood sugar from going low. Treatment should happen at 80, low is considered 60 or 70 and below, while high starts at 180 to 200. At around 500 or 600 most meters will stop reading specific numbers and just want you to get insulin in your body
Thanks, that's good to know. I've been experiencing this too and I know T1 diabetes runs in the family, but I ruled it out because I thought it wasn't a symptom of diabetes. I should check with a doctor.
I get that from time to time, but usually I'm hungry for a while first, unless I was distracted and it all hits at once. Then I'm ravenous, shaky, hot (and probably sweaty), and it's all I'm thinking about.
My hands are getting shaky when I consume caffeine in any form when hungry
Go see a doctor. As others have pointed out you may be diabetic (including more bizarre variations) or have other issues.
Not normal, sounds like hypoglycemia as others have said. See a doctor and start a program to improve your metabolic health.
Your body produces a fairly constant background level of glucose throughout the day, but if we become insulin resistant the body starts pumping in so much insulin that it forces our blood glucose levels very low, over shooting the target. The good news is this is very fixable, consider joining a telehealth program that helps you get control of your insulin (i.e. like virta health), you can do it on your own if you want.
Get a cgm (they cost like 20-30$) and what your blood glucose throughout the day, make a note of when the blood glucose goes up (what you were eating, it is carbs) and try to make a game of keeping the blood glucose line as flat as possible (fat and protein). Over time your insulin sensitivity will improve.
Very shaky, every time? Not an emergency room visit, but you need to see a doctor to rule out possible health issues. People have already brought up some serious possibilities that can become major problems if ignored.
Are you on any medications that could be causing it if you take it on an empty stomach?
It could be something you can just manage by keeping some bite sized Snickers available. (Literal suggestion from my doctor 30 years ago when I had something similar I was working through lunch and getting angry)
But my doc ruled out other issues with bloodwork. The miniature candy bars were to even out my blood sugars until I could eat properly.
I had to learn to manage it better so I didn't snap and get fired.
For people who don't know: Snickers candy is peanuts, caramel, and nougat covered in chocolate.
"get hungry"
It sounds like you might be using the wrong hunger cues. If you're waiting for stomach aches, you're already past hungry.
I don't think it's uncommon but anecdotally the only people I know personally that have that are also diabetic. I'm not a doctor but if it were me I'd at least keep an eye out for other signs just in case
Edit: just remembered another one of my friends who gets shaky has graves
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My wife does and she has ME/CFS - I'll get it if I'm REALLY hungry, tired and anxious but usually it needs to be the combination of the three for me.
Me too, also CFS. It's a real nuisance, because I need to lose weight but being hungry is awful.
Can happen, especially if exercising a lot.
Either that or a headache.
For me, this only happens when the last meal I had was mainly carbs. That's why I make sure to always have protien with every meal.
I do the shaky thing too, but I think it is just psychological tbh. At calorie crash levels of no blood sugar during extreme endurance sports, it is totally different. It is like someone straps lead weights all over your body. Everything feels heavy and nearly impossible to move.
There is probably some kind of dynamic regarding different types of sugar in the system that cause the shakiness.
Your brain ONLY works on sugars. So calorie crashing, like hitting the wall, is when your body has to start cannibalizing your own muscles for sugar to fuel the brain. I've never been anywhere near that level except on a bike after 4+ hours and 60+ miles. You feel like a puddle, and joints are like bending copper wire. There is no shakiness in that state.
Have you ever been checked for autism or adhd? Common symptoms for me include that im not in tune with my bodys "hunger" meter. I often forget to eat or dont eat enough, and as such the first real sign of hunger i get is when i start getting dizzy and it becomes hard to move. Could also be from not having enough food growing up, so my body stopped producing the "hungry" signal.
FYI autism diagnosis usually makes it much more difficult to emigrate if you ever decide to so its not exactly a good thing to get a diagnosis.
But no, I never went spcifically for such a check.
I dont know the laws in your country, but here doctors cant share any info on their patient without consent. I dont know if that would extend to a disagnosis like that, but the idea is that you ask your doctor if they think you are, and then you proceed according to their advice WITHOUT GETTING THE DIAGNOSIS. It would be massively beneficial for you to know yourself, as unchecked both of those can wreck your quality of life if youre not actively looking into coping mechanisms.
Do you feel unexplainably different from your peers? Like everyone else understands some fact of life that you are completely unaware of? Have you had any issues dating? None of that is a guaranteed diagnosis, but if those questions particularly resonate with you or you feel called out then its worth looking into.
Do you feel unexplainably different from your peers?
I mean, I'm Asian in white-majority country so that's the major difference lol. But other than that, I don't think so.
Like everyone else understands some fact of life that you are completely unaware of?
Like what for example?
Have you had any issues dating?
I never had the urge to date, perhaps kinda asexual/aromantic
Usually in immigration, how it works is YOU HAVE TO TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT EVERYTHING. So if they ask: "have you ever been diagnosed with any mental illnesses?" (I'm not saying that they do ask, but if they ask), you have to legally disclose it. If they found out you lied, they could revoke everything and deport you
Also btw you know about all the so-called "privacy" stuff? Privacy doesn't really exist when it comes to immigrarion.
Guess what, USCIS can see all medical records, every sealed/expunged criminal records, even juvenile records, even pardoned/overturned cases, and make a decision based on that. I'm assuming this is similar in other countries.
There are at least two conditions that can cause this: diabetes and hypoglycemia (which isn't really a diagnosable condition, as we don't yet know enough about it as someth ng independent of diabetes).
Go see a doc just to be sure.
Bit of background, because most people don't understand: Type I diabetes is an autoimmune disease, Type II is a reaction to dietary conditions.
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