I had a spell last week that got me kind of worried...

Taken from http://www.bddiabetes.com/us/understanding/react_recognizing_hypo.asp

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A low blood sugar reaction can happen when:

You skip a meal.

You exercise more than usual.

Mild Hypoglycemia :

Sudden hunger

Dizziness

Shakiness

Nervousness

Pounding heartbeat

Drowsiness

Sweating

Numbness or tingling around mouth and lips

Tiredness


Moderate Hypoglycemia:

Personality change

Irritability

Headache

Blurred vision

Confusion and/or difficulty concentrating

Poor coordination

Slurred or slow speech


Severe Hypoglycemia: (these require emergency treatment)
Passing out

Convulsions

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Those are some of the symptoms and reactions of hypoglycemia. Does anyone have any personal experience with this? Last week unavoidably I went about 2 hours past my afternoon meal time and became very sick and irritable very fast. In fact, I've become quite a crab even if I go as far as 1/2 hour past my 3 hour meal intervals. This particular day I got a stabbing feeling in my stomach, along with dizziness and irritability and my girlfriend said I might be hypoglycemic.

Does this happen to everyone that's on a tight diet / exercise program? Or should I be concerned here? It's only happened the one time, but I do feel it coming on if I don't eat on my proper schedule.

Am I freaking out over nothing here? Or do I need to go get checked out. http://www.gixxer.com/forums/images/graemlins/dunno.gif

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Taken from http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/hypoglycemia/

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Hypoglycemia in People Who Do Not Have Diabetes
Two types of hypoglycemia can occur in people who do not have diabetes: reactive (postprandial, or after meals) and fasting (postabsorptive). Reactive hypoglycemia is not usually related to any underlying disease; fasting hypoglycemia often is.

Symptoms
Symptoms of both types resemble the symptoms that people with diabetes and hypoglycemia experience: hunger, nervousness, perspiration, shakiness, dizziness, light-headedness, sleepiness, confusion, difficulty speaking, and feeling anxious or weak.

If you are diagnosed with hypoglycemia, your doctor will try to find the cause by using laboratory tests to measure blood glucose, insulin, and other chemicals that play a part in the body's use of energy.

Reactive Hypoglycemia
In reactive hypoglycemia, symptoms appear within 4 hours after you eat a meal.

Diagnosis
To diagnose reactive hypoglycemia, your doctor may

ask you about signs and symptoms

test your blood glucose while you are having symptoms (The doctor will take a blood sample from your arm and send it to a laboratory for analysis. A personal blood glucose monitor cannot be used to diagnose reactive hypoglycemia.)

check to see whether your symptoms ease after your blood glucose returns to 70 or above (after eating or drinking)
A blood glucose level of less than 70 mg/dL at the time of symptoms and relief after eating will confirm the diagnosis.

The oral glucose tolerance test is no longer used to diagnose hypoglycemia; experts now know that the test can actually trigger hypoglycemic symptoms.

Causes and Treatment
The causes of most cases of reactive hypoglycemia are still open to debate. Some researchers suggest that certain people may be more sensitive to the body's normal release of the hormone epinephrine, which causes many of the symptoms of hypoglycemia. Others believe that deficiencies in glucagon secretion might lead to hypoglycemia.

A few causes of reactive hypoglycemia are certain, but they are uncommon. Gastric (stomach) surgery, for instance, can cause hypoglycemia because of the rapid passage of food into the small intestine. Also, rare enzyme deficiencies diagnosed early in life, such as hereditary fructose intolerance, may cause reactive hypoglycemia.

To relieve reactive hypoglycemia, some health professionals recommend taking the following steps:

eat small meals and snacks about every 3 hours

exercise regularly

eat a variety of foods, including meat, poultry, fish, or nonmeat sources of protein; starchy foods such as whole-grain bread, rice, and potatoes; fruits; vegetables; and dairy products

choose high-fiber foods

avoid or limit foods high in sugar, especially on an empty stomach
Your doctor can refer you to a registered dietitian for personalized meal planning advice. Although some health professionals recommend a diet high in protein and low in carbohydrates, studies have not proven the effectiveness of this kind of diet for reactive hypoglycemia.

Fasting Hypoglycemia
Diagnosis
Fasting hypoglycemia is diagnosed from a blood sample that shows a blood glucose level of less than 50 mg/dL after an overnight fast, between meals, or after exercise.

Causes and Treatment
Causes include certain medications, alcohol, critical illnesses, hormonal deficiencies, some kinds of tumors, and certain conditions occurring in infancy and childhood.

Medications
Medications, including some used to treat diabetes, are the most common cause of hypoglycemia. Other medications that can cause hypoglycemia include

salicylates, including aspirin, when taken in large doses

sulfa medicines, which are used to treat infections

pentamidine, which treats a very serious kind of pneumonia

quinine, which is used to treat malaria
If using any of these medications causes your blood glucose to drop, your doctor may advise you to stop using the drug or change the dosage.

Alcohol
Drinking, especially binge drinking, can cause hypoglycemia because your body's breakdown of alcohol interferes with your liver's efforts to raise blood glucose. Hypoglycemia caused by excessive drinking can be very serious and even fatal.

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Well my sister last thanksgiving was diagnosed with that her CORE body tempt droped to 92 degrees it was really scary she also left her bed drenched with sweat.. we had to take her to the hospital. they gave her 3 bags of IV and and something like 150CC of sugar water. They said that if I had taken her any later she could have gotten some brain damage!!!

When I diet strictly,it happens occasionally.99% of the time it's because I ran late getting a meal into me and started to stress about it.I get real light headed and fuzzy,besides really cranky.I cure it in about 3 minutes by eating a nice sweet apple or other fruit.It's never gotten that bad where I had to eat a candy bar right away.Like I said,it's strictly diet related for me.

all i know is if i dont eat when im suppose to i want to kill people. i get really fucking crazy, short on patience, and at times i have had slurred speech. i had always thought i might have been hypoglycemic.. im not too worried about it.. i just make sure i get food in me quickly when i get like this.. but i crave sugar like a mofo when i dont eat a regular meal.