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Permalink Reply by Scott E on July 27, 2011 at 12:42pm

Raising my hand up high! It's why a very low low is always followed by a very high high for me...

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Permalink Reply by Natalie ._c- on July 27, 2011 at 9:41pm

I want to eat one of everything whether I'm low, high or in-between, LOL!! But I do understand the hypo hunger, which fortunately doesn't happen to me. Glad to hear you're beginning to have rational thought processes again, and I do think Lila has some good advice! :-)

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Permalink Reply by Doris D on July 28, 2011 at 10:08am

OMG I'm like my cousin on this one (he's a Type 1 too) He & I were talking the other day about how no one gets (without d) how bad you feel when u go low. Yep you have to retain yourself or you will over eat (done that a few times and got so high from that that the bs machine just registered HI on it had to pay that price too) I took Type 1 at 10 and weeeellthat was the way back in the 70's and it's so hard to break myself from doing it.

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Permalink Reply by ChrisChris on July 28, 2011 at 7:23pm

Yea you definitely cannot explain the feeling to a non D person. I told my mom (when I was about 14) that it was the most horrible feeling and she was surprised. I like to say it's like someone is squishing your brain. That's the closest I can get to explaining how it feels. I have broken myself from doing for the most part. Like I said earlier, the urge is there, but I do have the ability to talk myself into stopping. I tell myself that if I still feel bad in five minutes that I'll eat some more. Usually I have almost completely rational thoughts in 5-10 minutes.

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Permalink Reply by Brian Wittman on July 28, 2011 at 8:05pm

That would be me. I was low one morning when I woke up and I knew it. I woke up about 4 a.m., way too early. I felt like crap so I got up and tested. 48. So I began my get normal eating routine and was around 300 all day and into the evening. It took until the next day around noon before I was back to a reasonable BS level.

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Permalink Reply by acidrock23 on July 29, 2011 at 4:18am

One thing that I'll do if I think I've overeaten is wait like 5 minutes and enter a bolus w/ my BG @ 70 for the "extra carbs" and maybe eat a few more complex carbs to bolster my BG a bit.

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Permalink Reply by LaGuitariste on July 31, 2011 at 2:17am

Yep, I do that every time I go down into the low fifties or below.

I'll take one of each...no, make that two of each...of anything in the fridge.

I've learned to treat and white-knuckle until the I'M STARVING signal passes, but it's really hard.

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Permalink Reply by veterandiabetic on July 31, 2011 at 5:34am

hand raised! I am guilty of buying certain food at the supermarket, "just in case I'm low". you are not alone.

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Permalink Reply by Regina on August 5, 2011 at 12:19am

It's hit or miss with me. Plus, I'm an emotional eater, so if it's a traumatic low, yep...I'm eating. I'll carb count and bolus but I'm eating.

However, I've gained a ton of weight because I was hypo unaware for a bit. Not now though, but that means I've passed out a couple of times. Once that landed me in the ER with a gash on my forehead. I left with a head scan and stitches...lovely. The second time it happened, I woke up but that was about all I could manage and passed out. I slept through a class I was supposed to teach and was just so upset that I was in tears when I realized what had happened. (I'm sure that's also what got me "not renewed". No worries on that because I wanted to quit anyway, but still. I wanted to QUIT instead of not being renewed.)

So yeah, sometimes I just want to eat. However, I just had a pretty brutal low (that I caught). I had glucose tablets and don't really have a desire to eat. (However, I'm packing to move, so I'm probably just too focused on that.)

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