Hypoglycemic symptoms when sugar isn't too low?

[Jean in Newcastle]

Taking cinnamon capsules with every meal is making a huge difference for me in managing my borderline diabetes issues. My sugars have gone from being borderline diabetic (in the 120's two hours post-prandial) to in the 90's. Tonight after dinner (with cinnamon capsules), followed by an hour of kickboxing, my blood sugar went down to 83. I was clammy, sick to my stomach and shaky. I know that 83 really isn't that low, though. I ate something and felt better. But my question is, if I hadn't eaten something, would my body have continued to act hypoglycemic even at a blood sugar level that isn't technically hypoglycemia?

[The Governess]

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[Sara in AZ]

Yes, I think so. Your body doesn't know the numbers. How you feel is most important. Two thoughts:

 

1) There is a margin of error with all meters. You could have been a bit lower than the meter read.

 

2) If your glucose has been too high for a while, which I actually doubt based on what you've said, then you may actually feel symptoms of low blood glucose at a higher reading than you usually would. Kind of like the high in proportion to the low was the same just on a slightly higher scale. Does that make any sense? It happens to dd every once in a while that she feels low even though she doesn't test low. We treat it according to how she feels.

 

Great job on keeping such tight control!

[HiddenJewel]

Could it possibly have been low electrolites? (Thinking of the kick boxing.) That makes me feel like crud too.

[Jean in Newcastle]

Could it possibly have been low electrolites? (Thinking of the kick boxing.) That makes me feel like crud too.

 

Could be. I was drinking electrolytes with my water too afterward and it might take a while to kick in.

 

While my sugars were pretty good most of the time, I did have spikes after carby meals where it would get up in the 150's though, so my body might have gotten used to being at a higher level.

[Sara in AZ]

Could be. I was drinking electrolytes with my water too afterward and it might take a while to kick in.

 

While my sugars were pretty good most of the time, I did have spikes after carby meals where it would get up in the 150's though, so my body might have gotten used to being at a higher level.

 

Yeah, it usually happens for my dd when she's been really high, like 300's for a while and then comes down close to normal. 150 might be really high for you, though, and your body really felt the change. Or it could have been the exercise.