Low blood sugar

[Spleen]

Now it might seem obvious - I mean, REALLY obvious - and I used to think it was. Simple case of the shakes, easy to ignore, right?

I was at work today. I sat there and I had pins and needles all over my face, persistently. And in my hands. I have low blood pressure and terrible circulation, so I thought not much of it, until I started slurring my words and stuttering. And then my vision started shaking. And my limbs went limp; I couldn't tense or relax them, I couldn't pick up things, and I couldn't control my fingers very well at all.

And then I got very, very paranoid. I started telling people that "something weird" was happening to me and I didn't know what it was. I broke out in cold sweats.

I honestly didn't know what was wrong with me. I can hand on heart say that I thought I was dying because bit by bit, I just couldn't function.

They wobbled me off in to the break room and someone gave me some OJ to sip while they fetched the first aider to see what on earth they should be doing with me.

Needless to say, after about 200ml of orange juice and ten minutes, I was perfectly fine and felt like an absolute idiot.

Anyone else blindsided by low blood sugar like this? I had absolutely NO idea, I'm going to feel like such a joke going in tomorrow, haha.

[weightlessrunner]

Just laugh it off and say that you're normally fit and healthy so you've never experienced low blood sugar before.

Alternatively you can joke about it and say, great, does that mean I get to eat chocolate and ice cream every day so I can keep my sugar levels up?

[Spleen]

Haha, yeah, that's a good idea.

I was just going to head in and say I'd had such a hectic day that I didn't get a chance to eat and as a result - yeah, didn't know what was going on and didn't know what had hit me.

It really freaked me out, though. Usually at times like that my brain would instantly go; "This is because you haven't eaten anything. Chill out, you'll be fine.", and .. that didn't happen. I don't like that.

[Example]

Just eat a chocolate bar. Is it that difficult?