Well, ideally you should start feeling hungry quite some time before experiencing hypoglycemia.
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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.
Diabetics can have low blood sugar.
Basically, the body isn’t processing food the way it’s supposed to, so all sorts of problems can develop.
Also, there are other conditions that can cause low blood sugar.
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
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.
No…
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.
“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.
Can happen, especially if exercising a lot.
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.
Yes, almost always
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.
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.
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.
No
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.
