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Permalink Reply by Timothy on April 14, 2012 at 4:00am

I wonder if anyone here has unconventional symptoms of high or low sugar.

I get a stiff jaw from high sugar. I've never heard anyone else get this, But it is always correct. I think my jaw is connected to the spill point at 170 exactly.
{ anyone who wants to use the JAW-SPILLPOINT theory as a doctoral thesis, can simply credit me in the paper :) }

I generally get all the usual symptoms too. My hands smell like Kool-aid when it gets over 200. I think sometimes spouses can notice things that we don't.

We could make a list of atypical symptoms and submit it to the ASCP( American Society of clinical pathology) or ACP ( American College of Psychians) OR any countries organizational groups.
Or just for fun.

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Permalink Reply by Gary on April 14, 2012 at 4:47am

I get all kinds of crazy stuff. The mental is usually worse then the physical especially when trending low. The strange thing to me is nothing is 100% consistent. Generally I only feel well when in between 80-90 though I have been caught off guard with some highs here and there and though I didn't feel great and really couldn't notice much. A few weeks back I slipped down to 40 and was perfectly fine. That was a real strange one. Usually when I am running elevated I get this pressure feeling throughout my body that makes me feel like my body want's to explode. Like the extra glucose is trying to get out but it can't. I get wicked irritable from it. When I was younger the only symptoms I remember having from highs was constant thirst urination and wicked dry mouth. I almost don't even get those anymore. I would trade my symptoms for a stiff jaw any day of the week.

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Permalink Reply by timmy on April 14, 2012 at 6:05am

i only noticed my 'super highs' in sport because thats often when i have spiked myself too much. As i have mentioned before, i get 'weak'. I have no power output for swimming, cycling, running or anything which makes me exert.
The lowest i have been is 2.7. I felt a lack of power again but worse, because I also feel a lack of technique/form, a bit doughy, slightly panicked.
Highs and lows only come to me during sport or, stress, which can shoot me up to 13mmol without anything done differently in my routine.

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Permalink Reply by MyBustedPancreas on April 14, 2012 at 10:22am

I get numbness/tingling in my face/lips and sometimes a strange sharp pain in my jaw line if I press the side of my tongue against my teeth when I'm low. I have only recently heard other people also describe numbness/tingling in their face. But in the past I have been told by endos that this was odd.

When I'm high, I get a very specific crushing/pressure feeling at the top of my head. It almost feels like my brain is filling up with fluid or something and pressure is building. I usually start to feel it when I reach 200, and it gets worse the higher I get.

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Permalink Reply by Chris Miller on April 14, 2012 at 1:40pm

My jaw gets stiff when my blood sugar drops. My wife notices because I make funny faces. I lick my lips awkwardly, and my hands curl up. Those are the first outward signs that others notice.

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Permalink Reply by EdamameBean on April 14, 2012 at 5:06pm

Does anyone get acid reflux when they are high?

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Permalink Reply by drsoosie on April 14, 2012 at 5:25pm

For one year prior to my T1 diagnosis I had two consistent symptoms which I now connect to high blood sugar. The first was a weird bad taste which would come in the back of my throat/mouth. It's almost like I could taste and smell it and it was foul. The second symptom was a dry chronic cough. I attribute the second symptom to dehydration. Anyhow, I can tell now if I get too high when I get a taste in my mouth or a cough. I also get tingling in my hands and toes.

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