What does a "sugar high" (hyperglycemia) feel like?

EccentricDad

Can someone explain what a "sugar high" or hyperglycemia feels like to me. After a banana and orange juice breakfast I had a glass of orange juice, sugary apple sausage from al fresco, a nectarine, and baby carrots lunch and now I am feeling classical ADHD symptoms (something I was diagnosed with) but is this really clinical ADHD if I only experience inattentiveness and hyperactivity when I overdose on sugar? Or is this the feeling of a typical person's blood sugar getting too high too fast before it crashes down and gives me a lull where I reach for more sugar? I normally associate this feeling with my gluten sensitivity but now I'm thinking it's something else....

Might I ask are there any other symptoms? is your vision affected at all? My hypo symptoms include an aura of sorts, when this starts I take a dextrose tablet. I have to sit down until it passes, usually 20 mins & I am incoherent during this time. This is when my sugar crashes, I do not experience a sugar high at any time before that. A hypoglycemic has low sugar, when we eat it our sugar goes up but when it starts to wear off the level dips lower than your normal low level, thus causing the symptoms. I have to be very careful if I eat a banana because the natural sugar content affects me.

You had a lot of sugar for the first two meals, how long after did the symptoms actually show up?

I get brain fog where I feel very fuzzy headed and I have to try hard to use my vision or else it goes double vision. Thinking is difficult and often incoherent if not just random and spontaneous (not racing just random). I am unable to see the big picture any more and my vision becomes narrow. I also get a headache in my forehead and in my sinus area. But after about 2 hours or so it all goes away. I seriously think it's a response to either having too much sugar in my system at once or because sugar in general is one of my intolerances. It's really hard to explain though.

EccentricDad

I have all sorts of cognitive issues

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almostfortysix

I understand what your feeling. I think...As a child my mom would load me up on cereal and milk and send me off to school. I would be at school an hour and I'd feel sick my heart would feel funny and many times have to go lay down in the nurses offices. Most of the time I'd even have a temp. (crashing) The Dr. said it was anxiety.......Oddly enough as I got older I noticed if I had a good breakfast, eggs and fruit , no juice or cereal I wouldn't feel tired and sick. I told the Dr. this but after he told my mom it was in my head.
As an adult and parent...my kids do not get cereal for breakfast and we always make them healthy meals. (If I could just get them to eat them)
You might want to make an appointment with a good Dr. and see what they have to say.

littlepinkhearts

I don't know about hyperglycemia, but I know about hypoglycemia: sweaty, fast heart rate, sudden fatigue and desire to lie down, and a desperate need to eat your way out of the horrible feeling by bringing your blood sugar up. Of course, this can turn into a vicious cycle.

Interesting. You see, I don't get any sugar lows (which proves to me I'm not diabetic); but I do get sugar highs sometimes (which is why I avoid candy and baked goods). I can see how the hypo to hyper could be a vicious cycle though.

a) A diabetic would be SUGAR HIGH not low
b) How do you know your sugar is high? Have you tested it on a meter or are you pulling this out of your *kitten*?

Sorry, not feeding the troll except by saying "how do you know you're drunk and not just an idiot? Do you breathalyzer to make sure you're drunk before you act like an *kitten*?"

omG your response made me laugh....as for a sugar high? for me it's like I can't talk fast enough and I just have soooooo much energy all of the sudden. It's actually quite awesome if you have some stuff to do that takes a LOT of energy. But then you crash lol