[MelodyL]

Hi all.

It was 3 p.m. I had forgotten to eat lunch. I was lying on the bed, on the phone with my friend and we were chatting and I noticed my feet and bottom legs were on fire and some of my arms too.

I then remembered, I did not eat lunch. I immediately got off the phone, checked my sugar and it was 52. Made myself a tuna nicoise salad.

Felt much better.

Now here's my question. I know that when a person has low blood sugar (for whatever reason, the legs get shaky, the stomach gets shaky, the vision starts to blur....I don't get this as a rule but I watch my sugar all the time. Once in a while, when I forget to eat lunch, my vision gets screwed up, but then in five minutes, once I eat, I'm fine.

Did the burning that occured right before I checked my blood sugar, well, did that have anything to do with the reading of 52?? Or was this neuropathy because I was laying on my back talking on the phone.

This rarely happens if I'm walking. Just when I'm laying down. I know what happens when you lay down and you burn because I read it all the time on this forum. But I just want to know if low blood sugar can cause burning too. Oh, by the way, it's a very very hot day. We have no air conditioning and it's like 92 outside. Could that affect burning too??

Thanks to anyone who knows the answer.

Melody

[cyclelops]

Mel

You should not forget to eat lunch!! You can pass out from low blood sugar.

I can't say if low blood sugar makes you burn more, the problem with neuropathy, is there is no rhyme or reason.

Can you get a room air conditioner? Some people with neuropathy can't take the heat. It is in the 90's here, and if I didn't have a room air conditioner, I would croak. It is in my bedroom which does have a TV and when I open the door to go out, it is like a 'flashover' of heat...I don't particularly like staying in my bedroom, but when it gets this hot, I don't have an option, until we get the central AC unit...our house is ready for it, just need the unit, I am stuck with the bedroom, until evening.

I don't think it rains here anymore. I have seen a lot of storms go both north and south of me, and I can hear the thunder and yet, we get very little of it right where we live.

Low blood sugar is dangerous because it can come on fast, and you can pass out. When I was on a first responder unit, I often saw people passed out with blood sugars in the 40's. At least have some juice to drink, and do that a few times per day...with diabetes you have to watch your diet!!

[MelodyL]

Yeah, I know, I was stupid. And yeah, I'm finding out that neuropathy has no rhyme or reason.

But as soon as I ate the salad I felt one million times better.

See, I don't like to eat if I'm not hungry. But with diabetes, you have to eat little meals during the day. Now, when you used to weigh what I used to weigh, and you've lost a major amount of weight, you really don't want to eat when you are not hungry. Goes against everything I've been through while losing my weight.

But I shal prevail.

And the only air conditioner is the one in the bedroom. It's a 5000 btu and it's on right now.

My living room- dining room is 30 feet long. If I ever put an air conditioner in there, my monthly bill would be over $300. I don't have that kind of money.

So we use fans. Alan mostly sits in the chair with the big fan on his body. He is comfortable. I never do anything in the living room. Never. I don't even sit on the couches. If you walked into my home, it's like when I first moved in 15 years ago. Couches look brand new. Only Alan's recliner has to be replaced. Want to know why I never go in the living room?? Because when we first moved here 15 years ago, the people upstairs had two little children, no rugs and they would move furniture and let the little ones ride their tricycles over our heads every day. Almost gave me a nervous breakdown. So I ate in the kitchen or in my bedroom We never could eat in the dining room. They moved after one year but we got into the habit and I got so used to not sitting in the living room (unless we have company of course), that I just clean my houes and go about my business or watch tv in my bedroom. Alan is the living room guy.

I have a ceramic tile floor throughout my apartment. No rugs. So I use my swiffer wet thing every single day. I don't want to see a bug so all I do is clean. Clean clean clean, that's me. Never used to be me when I was in my 30's but my goodness, how I have changed. I'm like a cleaning fanatic.

If Alan ever put a dish in the sink and went to bed, he would hear it from me the next day.

Ever try a swiffer?? This has to be the best invention since peanut butter. No more mops. And I don't even have to buy the container with the swiffer wet things inside. You get 24 for $8.99. Guess what I pay for them??

I go to the ninety nine cents store and you get a package of 20 wet swiffer like things for ninety nine cents. Can you imagine.

I swiffer two or three times a day. I do the walls with it too.

Whoever invented the swiffer has my vote.

Oh, and you'll never guess what I just went and bought 10 minutes ago.
See, I'm like a girl scount. Be prepared. That's my motto.

I was watching Oprah and a news bulletin flashed on the tv warning of power outages, and storms heading our way.

I grabbed my purse, went to one of the local stores that sell the AS SEEN ON TV PRODUCTS, and I knew exactly what I wanted to purchase. It's called the Stick on Bulb. No electricity needed. Uses 4 AA batteries.

Trouble is, everybody else had the same idea. So I went down to CVS and there were two left on the shelves. I got them.

Now, if we have a power outage, (today, tomorrow, next year, whenever), I shall have light in my house. Two lights to be exact.

Alan said "the things you think of". And I responded "well, if we have a power outage and you can't see in the dark, YES, THE THINGS I THINK OF!!!!

Should have been a boy scout!!! lol

Melody

[glenntaj]

low blood sugar--hypoglycemia--can cause neurological symptoms, especially in people with insulin resistance/impaired glucose tolerance/diabetes. The boomerang effect of wide blood sugar swings is very hard on the nervous system.

Usually, the symptoms are as you have described--shakiness, visual disturbances, confusion . . .but in those who already have peripheral nerve damage, those central nervous system (brain) symptoms will only make the peripheral symptoms more erratic; the brain is having enough trouble figuring out the "weird" peripheral impulses and, when hypoglycemic, is now in a state of impairment. One could, conceivably, "feel" almost anything at that point.

Mel, eat lunch. 52 is too low a reading for anyone, but particularly someone still on diabetes meds.

[MelodyL]

Yes Pop::::

I've learned my lesson.

No more skipping lunch. I really did forget. Second time in a week.

I wasn't shaking, or wobbly though, it was the burning that reminded me.

Oh brother.

Now, after all the years of people telling me "Melody stop eating". now I have to eat!!!! Go figure....lol


Melody

[Aussie99]

Don't forget to eat your lunch!

Aren't you glad that you have your matey's on the PN forum to scold you when youv'e forgotten to eat lunch!

All kidding aside granny was diabetic. When her sugar was too low she was literally a different person. A few times she'd grab my arm really hard and wouldn't let go of it, and she was strong too, I couldn't pry loose!

She would get shaky,sweaty,dizzy,flushed, her BP would go haywire,and a many times she almost collapsed.
Kind of like me with my anxiety disorder!!!!

Gees the things that I remember too.