is this a normal reaction?

dancinrascal

So today I ate my typical breakfast and brought my mom to the minute clinic at the local drugstore, where we waited for over 3 hours. I was standing the whole time, and I started getting really hungry, but I new i would be eating as soon as I got home, so I had a small special k bar. However, the rest of the night I just ate and ate and ate. Severe case of the munchies. Is it normal when your blood sugar dips for you to have this reaction? I tried to satiate my want to keep snacking but nothing was working.

ILiftHeavyAcrylics

That happens to me-- if I let myself get too hungry I'll be starving even after eating. It's always better to eat before you get to that point. I actually eat on a schedule so I rarely feel hungry at all and it seems to help.

Bobby__Clerici

I keep snacks with me and eat on a schedule to head off these calls of the wild.

Janelle173

I can;t remember exactly how my dad explained it to me, but he has sugar issues. He just passed out the other day, an ambulance was called-when he came to, they gave him orange juice and aspirin and then read his sugar levels. They were only in the low 40s. So after the family talking him into going (because he refused to go in the ambulance) to the hospital like 12 hours later, he had already eaten pecan pie, and a meal, and at the hospital, his sugars were only in the low 60s.

The doc explained that when you let the reserves get used up, you need to eat a lot more to get the reserves built up, or it is like constantly "robbing peter to pay paul" and you can quickly have the same bum result of passing out if going too long with out eating.

idk if that makes any sense. I can't remember where he said it is all stored, or what organ metabolizes it, but basically, once you have gone that far, it is normal to then be fatigued and hungry.

edixon908

Yes that is normal if you are not eating every 2-3 hours. Eat every 2-3 hours even if you are not hungry to reduce the spikes in cravings.