Low Blood Sugar Binging

MSeel1984
MSeel1984 Posts: 2,297 Member
edited December 2024 in Motivation and Support
For those of you with diabetes (especially brittle diabetics), ever experience the phenomenon of severe low blood sugar when you eat ANYTHING...and EVERYTHING in sight?

Doctors and other people caution against over-treating a low blood sugar (aka: eating everything you can get your hands on), but they do not and cannot understand what it feels like. I believe it's part of the reason I put on weight to begin with-that and using birth control pills...but it is certainly frustrating. I'm trying things to prevent myself from overdoing it-avoiding the kitchen being the number 1 thing...having things around like glucose tabs, packets of honey or juice boxes helps...

Does anyone else have this frustration with over treating low blood sugars/binging because your body is in fight or flight mode? It's frustrating. Just looking for support and maybe those with similar frustrations :(

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  • jonnyrosko
    jonnyrosko Posts: 30 Member
    Oh yeah, I know exactly what you’re going through. I always get that way when I wake up during the night w/ a low. I just want to nom nom everything in sight. My problem was I would eat until I wasn’t feeling low anymore; which is roughly ½ a box of cap’n crunch, 3 or 4 bowls of milk, the remaining cheez-its in the box, and the cookies laying around to help soak up the remainder of the left over milk.

    The next morning I would wake up w/ a sugar hang-over and a sky high blood sugar. Now, I just drink milk or juice and wait a bit then check my sugar again. Then, rinse and repeat as necessary (even though I still want to devour everything in the kitchen).
  • MSeel1984
    MSeel1984 Posts: 2,297 Member
    Oh yeah, I know exactly what you’re going through. I always get that way when I wake up during the night w/ a low. I just want to nom nom everything in sight. My problem was I would eat until I wasn’t feeling low anymore; which is roughly ½ a box of cap’n crunch, 3 or 4 bowls of milk, the remaining cheez-its in the box, and the cookies laying around to help soak up the remainder of the left over milk.

    The next morning I would wake up w/ a sugar hang-over and a sky high blood sugar. Now, I just drink milk or juice and wait a bit then check my sugar again. Then, rinse and repeat as necessary (even though I still want to devour everything in the kitchen).

    Yeah...I've had bad ones like that. It's so hard to resist that signal your body is giving you to keep eating until you don't feel like crap anymore...but then you end up swinging the opposite direction and your sugar gets crazy high. Cereal used to be my go-to because it would reliably bring my blood sugar up...but usually I'd over do it and it would go through the roof.

    I try to do 4 oz of orange juice then check...if it's back up I take about 1 tsp peanut butter to keep my sugar stable...I wonder why it is that I crave peanut butter to bring my sugar up...It doesn't really do much but keep it stable once it's back to normal (the fat and protein helps)
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