#bloodsugar #lowbloodsugar #chronicillnessmemes #chronicillnesshumor #chronicillness #autoimmune #chronicallyill #spoonie #spoonielife #spooniememes

07/01/2025
The number of Nurses and Doctors who jumped up when they saw someone pass out was really reassuring.
https://thedevilspanties.com/archives/16667
#AirTravel,#EntitledPassenger,#FlightAttendant,#flying,#LowBloodSugar,#travel

My last two check ins with my weight loss surgery surgeon included a lot of talk about low blood sugar incidents. What triggers it, how to fix it, what it feels like.

Just the other day I was thinking about that subject and how it feels like it’s been a long time since I’ve had a low blood sugar episode. I pondered, what is it that I am doing now that is preventing the issue that I wasn’t doing six months ago? Whatever it is, I am happy about it because going a long time without that particular side effect was making me happy.

Fast forward to today. I’m in the grocery store, grocery shopping and I started feeling a little foggy headed. My hands started shaking. I felt weak. Aw, damn it. I thought about it the other day and jinxed myself. My days-without-a-low-blood-sugar-incident streak is officially over.

I sat in the car and had something to eat and felt a little better. I still feel a little beat up but that’s not the point of this post. The point of this post is I jinxed myself and that makes me sad. Maybe I’ll work on some music to cheer myself up. That would be both fun and productive.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/07/27/sugar-crash/

#bloodSugar #diet #gastricBypass #gastricBypassSurgery #health #lowBloodSugar #weightLossSurgery

I have a quarterly review meeting in 25 minutes.

I’m having a low blood sugar moment and feel kinda loopy. Oh good.

A few minutes ago I gave myself a full dose of The Foamies just by drinking water. That’s a first. I’m just shy of two years since gastric bypass surgery and I’ve never had the foamies triggered by a liquid before. It’s always been solid food. It passed quick, but it was a surprise.

My father is having a bad day, health-wise today.

I just got an invite to a training that I took on Tuesday. It says the training starts in 25 minutes. I am so confused. Maybe it’s just the blood sugar thing. I’ve had a protein bar and I’m feeling better. My father is going to get stitches. He’s going to be miserable. I wish I could do something to help.

Blah, this is an example of a Friday that is not living up to it’s potential. It’s supposed to be “Good Friday” today, isn’t it? So far it’s not very good. Blah.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/03/29/fun-times-2/

#badFriday #dad #gastricBypass #gastricBypassRecovery #gastricBypassSideEffects #goodFriday #health #hospital #lowBloodSugar #meetings #scheduling #stitches #theFoamies #weightLossSurgery #weirdThings #weirdness #work #wound

At my check in at the weight loss clinic I asked about my low blood sugar episodes.

Apparently the question is common enough that they had a handout already printed and ready to be handed out.

Huh. Apparently we can chalk it up to crackers. I’ve been eating crackers a lot and lo and behold, eating crackers leads to blood sugar dive bombs in people with little butchered stomach pouches like mine.

Crud. I like crackers and I have a cabinet full of them. Crud.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2023/12/21/common-enough-for-a-hand-out/

#gastricBypass #hypoglycemia #lowBloodSugar #weightLossSurgery

I’ve felt off all day today. I mentioned in a post not long ago that I am having occasional weird episodes that feel exactly like what my type one diabetic step son says low blood sugar episodes feel like. Today is different though.

I can’t tell if I feel like I am having low blood sugar moments, or if I am just really, really tired, or… somehow both? I had a decent night’s sleep last night, but not great. The previous two days have been better than most over the last couple of months, but still not great. Good sleep is an issue for me, no doubt.

Today though… is the fuzzy head feeling due to low blood sugar, or am I just really tired. I can’t tell. That’s why I think it might be a little of both. Every time it starts ramping up I have something to eat, but it doesn’t go away the way it usually does. Does the blood sugar problem go away and leave the exhaustion behind?

Does this post make any sense at all? I can’t tell because I am too tired to proof read. I’ll check this one over in a day or two and laugh at how bad it is. 

Until then…

https://robertjames1971.blog/2023/12/18/am-i-sick-tired-or-sick-and-tired/

#bloodSugar #exhausted #exhaustion #health #lowBloodSugar #Sleep #tired #weightLossSurgery #weightLossSurgerySideEffects

Sometimes the difference between why must everything you do make me want to choose violence and hey could you turn that down a bit is just some food in your belly. Remember if you’re angry maybe you’re hungry. #lowbloodsugar #marriedlife #chewquieter

November 13, 2015 was the worst day. It was the day Harry was diagnosed with type one diabetes. He was so sick that it was terrifying. Fortunately he recovered quickly and we went from being utterly terrified for his life to learning all we could about maintaining his health. That included all sorts of information on the signs of both high and low blood sugar. We learned that high blood sugar had few outward symptoms, but at some point it becomes life threatening. Harry’s initial problems were due to a sky high blood sugar levels.

Low blood sugar has more obvious symptoms. In extremes it is just as life threatening, but there are more signs of issues at much lower levels. They include shakiness and light headedness. Not long after my gastric bypass I started having quick moments of light headedness myself. I never got a specific reason why but among the possibilities were low blood pressure and low blood sugar.

This weekend I had a moment where it was clear that I was having a low blood sugar moment. I felt exactly the way the staff at Boston Medical Center told us low blood sugar would make you feel, and exactly the way Harry described when we asked him how he felt during a low. Light headed and shaky and weak. I had something to eat and felt better after a few minutes. Today, just before lunch, it happened again. It wasn’t as bad this time and again, having a bite to eat improved things quickly.

So my question to the universe is: Is this going to be a thing now? It’s just another reason to not forget to eat. I need to keep what’s left of my rewired, bypassed, tiny little stomach pouch from getting too empty. I can handle that. Bring it on, I guess.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2023/10/17/blood-sugar/

#bloodSugar #diabetes #gastricBypass #health #lowBloodSugar #sideEffects #symptoms #typeOneDiabetes #weightLossSugery

I have #BrainFog as a symptom when my #BloodSugar gets low, which really just means I spend hours a day wondering why my brain is so foggy until I remember that I have brain fog as a symptom of #LowBloodSugar

Of course, my doctor says my tests look fine and won't prescribe blood sugar testing stuff so I don't even know what the numbers look like, just that I forgot to eat

#ADD and #ADHD PLUS #LowBloodsugar without a proper diet is... 🙄😳🙄😳🙄😳

My recommendation for @ye would be...

¹ Bland Diet with vegetables
² NO Caffeine
³ NO Sugar
⁴ NO Alcohol
⁵ Make sure you get enough protein
⁶ Monitor your blood sugar daily

#FoodPyramid