What It Feels Like to Have a Low Blood Sugar

I will tell you "IT AINT FUN" I do not wish something like that on anyone.

Fear, hunger and feeling weird is right. Especially when you are by yourself and no one is around to be with you. That's another fear. My family worries about me all the time. I can handle it and know what to do before I get that fainty/pass out sweaty feeling. Mine is usually high though. Same type of feeling in fear, when it's high. Because you can easily go into coma, which is another fear factor with diabetes.

That really helps me alot!!!

Thanks, I appreciate your description of low blood glucose. It is helpful to get descriptive feed back. You expressed some of the symptoms I am familiar with having. Take care & Bless you! Ronda

Man you hit it right on the bullseye thats exactly how i feel, when i take my medicine than go exercise, i did not know why i felt like the way you described it. thanks a million.

He's close to how I feel, but having proliferive retinopathy, my vision also get very bright, which makes it difficult to see. The lower the bg the more intense the feelings. Some time I get crying jags too, when the blood sugar is dropping very fast. Its very hard to concentrate and I know I can't drive when I get like that! Some of my friends think its cool because its like getting a free high - can you beleive it!? Not when your spouse brings you to the ER when you're not responsive. But I work full time and live a full life!!

loner57—Thanks, I have had trouble explaining what it feels like and you got it exactly right.

this is kind of what it feels like to have low blood sugar with diabetes.

I never had Low Blood sugar before this week and it was crazy. It was the middle of the day and I just drove to a friends house. I am trying to make small talk and all of a sudden I am sweaty and shaky and just want to crawl in a corner and lay down. But there I sit feeling terrible and I try to hide the fact I am feeling this way. I excuse myself to the restroom and take my blood sugar and its 34 ! I walk slowly to the kitchen and ask for juice and she notices how white and shaky I am and then I had to tell her and put myself in an even more emmbrassing situation. After 4 oz of apple Juice and a piece of dark chocolate I was fine and within a few hours was able to drive home .

I had a low blood sugar about a month ago. I woke up in the morning "out of it". I tried to walk out of the house saying "I had to go to work" even tho I am retired. My husband recognized it immediately and tried to get me to take a glucose tablet which I immediately tossed it across the room…I didn't know I was doing this. He ended up calling 911 and the paramedics gave me a shot of glucose and I came out of it. My blood sugar was at 30. Now i keep a piece of chocolate and glucose at my bedside to take if i wake up in the middle of the night. It holds me until morning.

I get clammy, sweaty, feel like I am going to puke. Shakey and confused. Better be grabbing something.

That's the first time I have ever heard anyone describe what I personally go through.
Thank you so much for taking the time to share.

Everyone is different. I feel simiular to the way you describe but I crave sugar. It happens after I eat and I don't eat enough Carbs maybe just some salad because that's all I feel like eating and I didn't adjust my insulin used for this amount of food eaten, than around 3AM I wake up all disoriented and in my dream I'm chasing something I can't catch or something like that. I get up stumble to the refrig to consume sugar in all forms. Maybe not the best thing to do but in my crazed fit this is what I do. Now I try to keep a Clif bar my favorite is Cool Mint Chocolate and eat half of it then go back to sleep. But I do feel shaky, sweaty, disoriented, and craze sugar. All I can think about is getting food into my mouth. Thanks for posting this video it does help people understand the feeling. I used to say I'm not a women but I think it is like when a women is PMSing and is out of control but I have learned not to say that. Oops I just did again. :~)

That sort of describes it , I have a squeezing feeling in my chest and confused,shakey, This can happen when I am in the food market at about 11am and haven't eating. I don't know if it is the smell of food or what , but I get a ringing in my head and it feels like I am going to faint. When I go food shopping on Thursday( United has a free bus for senior that picks up at your door and bring you back with you bags) I always buy a cookie or some fruit that I can eat while I shop to keep me on the straight and narrow. Don't want the cashier looking at me like I am crazy when I push the bananas or something sweet up to the front of checkout. Most of the cashiers sort of know any one getting on the shoppers bus may be diabetic and needs special handling. All you have to do is tell them you take insulin and are feeling faint and they spring into action with very little fanfair.LOL It is great to know they really do care about their customer.

It feels bad all over

I have type 2 diabetes. My friend is a 4 insulin shot taker a day. I have heard the same symptoms from him as he has had to cut his insulin in half and is going to cut it in half again. i can give info on Plexus Slim or go to my dau web site
www.plexusslim.com/lynnsumrall

This guy is right on this video I feel tired and feel like I am going to pass out and experience anxiety attacks because I suffer from ptsd.

Everything you said is the way i get,also very jerky all over and like hot flashs

I'm not going with the flow, I guess. The description was meaningless to me.

Great description of the sensation, in terms that makes it easy for people without diabetes understand. Intense fear, hunger, dizziness all at the same time. Sensation is like a rotten hangover, because the liver stops releasing glucose when you drink alcohol, which causes a feeling of hypoglycemia in people without diabetes.