The thing about low blood sugars is that they aren’t all the same. They can come with a vast variety of symptoms. There is the fuzzy brain low - when you just can’t focus on anything. There is the barely feel it low - when you are surprised to see that number on the meter. There is the sweaty low, the eat everything in sight low, the cranky low, the I’ll just ignore it and it will go away low . . . . the list goes on and on.
But right now, I’m dealing with my most hated kind of low . . .
The Tingly Lipped Low. The kind where it feels like your lips are resting on the washing machine during a spin cycle. That feeling that your lips could vibrate right off your face. It’s weird and uncomfortable and just plain freaky!!
Yup, out of all the different kinds of lows I have, I think the tingly lipped low is the worst. How about you?
I have never experienced the tingly lip low as you described it. My hands go numb in the morning before I wake up. That's the only time it happens and that's usually how I know I'm low because I won't feel any other symptoms until after I get up, test, and eat. Weird. Sorry you have such uncomfortable symptoms right now.
ReplyDeletethe worst for me is the slow-motion low. it feels like my body isn't doing what i tell it to. should it really take me ten minutes to open that juice box?
ReplyDeleteThe lip-tingling low just sucks.I have had this kind many times, not always but often. It's not associated with a specific BG#, either, which is weird. Not necessarily the lowest lows. And sometimes, it's not just my lips, either--other body parts too. Anyway, hope you're feeling better now!
ReplyDeleteI don't get the tingly lip low, but I get a tingly tongue low, so I know the feeling. That one usually happens right after a meal that I miscalculate for. The slow motion low is the worst too, like Jess said. That one happens to me at night when I try and roll over but my body wont listen!
ReplyDeleteI've never experienced a tingly lip low. :) The low that I hate the most is the "I'm dropping super fast low" (usually from guessing a carb count wrong and taking too much insulin) because it always makes me feel sick to my stomach, like I have indigestion, and the last thing I want to do is eat!
ReplyDeleteYa know...the first time I felt this was during my pregnancy and my tongue would actually go numb! It was wierd and has happened a few times since, but never in the 15 years before being pregnant, strange huh?!
ReplyDeleteI agree, it's an awful feeling!
i've had tingly lipped lows too. my worst are wobbly world lows- where you feel like the ground is made of jello, but really it's just your knees/legs starting to give way... both are unwelcome tho ;)
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I haven't had the tingly lip low in years! It is funny because I use to get it all the time. Now I'm just get the bitchy low. I hate that one too!
ReplyDeleteI know that tingly lip feeling. My worst ones are the feel fine one second, feel like I'm going to be sick the next. I know it's a low but I can't eat for the nausea. It happened on a plane once, during major turbulence. Fun times! Happily the flight attendant was happy to stumble over with some ginger ale. Raised my sugar and calmed the nausea at the same time.
ReplyDeleteGosh, I wish I knew what they felt like! I love the "descriptors" and that photo is the best!!!
ReplyDeleteJoe's ugly ones are the sweaty, shaky, grumpy, "I'll ignore it and it will go away" LOWS...those are hard to watch him go through.
I haven't seen him with the lip/tongue weirdness. I'll ask. Maybe he has them and I haven't known the right questions to evoke a more descriptive response.
Oh, those dreaded Tingly Lip Lows... like the I'm So Low I Feel Drunk ones, and the Split Blurry Vision Lows. Or, all of them could arguably be as my mother-in-law says: a case of my "Going Stupid..." Uh huh. Well, I know this - they all suck.
ReplyDeleteOh Karen honey YOU POOR thing. I am so sorry. and saying prayer for you right this time as I write you. Please Lord, get Karen through this quickly. Make her feel peaceful, quiet. loved.
ReplyDeleteWhat did you decided on your endo?
The worst is the slow motion one for me - like being in a bad dream *and* underwater with tunnel vision. But if there's anything positive in this, at least there is some warning. When I have absolutely no symptoms for an extreme low, that's what gets to me most!
ReplyDeletei hate the exercise or alcohol induced low the most. they are the ones i don't feel and they sneak up the fastest. for those reasons, i avoid both of those things. well, except the alcohol on occassion.
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