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At the moment I'm guzzling Starbuck cappuccino loaded with sugar, so I won't keel over and die from low blood-sugar, aka hypoglycemia. Yeah I'm one of those lucky blood-sugar weirdos. I don't need insulin, I don't have to cut back on sugar, on the contrary, I need emergency candy on my person all the time.
Yeah the first time I realized there might be something wrong with me was a few months ago, when I went to the Rocky Horror Picture Show in Tampa, at the Tampa Pitcher Show (You should all go)
I was outside after the show and decided to have a smoke with two good friends of mine, much to the disapproval of the friends I came with. Anyways, I was the happiest I'd been in months, smoking for the first time in about 3 months, when my best guy friend smoking with me pointed out that my hands were shaking. It was cold out, but not enough to be shivering. Looking down and noticing the cigarette in my hand shaking severely along with my hand, I got kinda panicked, but I just played it off, saying I must be experiencing side effects of smoking again after so long (I think I said something like suffering withdrawal from withdrawal). The shaking went away after a bit.
The next weekend I was home again tohugh, It was about noon-ish and I hadn't had breakfast yet and the shaking started again.
I got really worried, because my dad had just tested his blood sugar for the day, and I remembered that shaking hands was a sign of diabetes. When I asked my mom about it, then showed her my shaking hands, she got really worried, but dad just asked me if I had eaten anything yet, and told me to go have my coffee and it'd go away.
Went to the doctor the next day, and she said I'm showing signs of hypoglycemia, and that I need to have snacks throughout the day and candy in case of emergencies. I also had to get my own blood-tester, and I have to prick my finger every morning before I eat. TT_TT Which is scary, because I'm afraid of needles. It takes me about 5 minutes to convince myself to do it, by clicking the needle-shooter thingy over and over while I say out loud that it doesn't hurt. It doesn't, but I have to re-convince myself every time.
Anyways, If my sugar gets too low, I get all weird and my hands start trembling, and it gets worse unless I eat something with sugar to bring it up quick, and then something with protein to stabilize it, which'll be enough to hold me over until I eat actual food. If I don't get my sugar up in time, I might start shaking real badly, and keel over and have a seizure and die.
This is something that started this year, and doctor said it might be because I'm away at college, where the food's iffy.
No matter how funny and awesome it is to need to have candy everyday, I kinda hope this goes away. When I tell people I'm hypoglycimic, they always go like, "Oh! You have diabetes? I'm so sorry."
That reaaallly ticks me off. >_> I'm not dying or anything.
Just letting all you know, if your hands ever start trembling and you don't know why and start to freak out, you should just eat something, anything, that has sugar in it. It should stop it. And you should probably go to the doctor, just in case.
=)
At the moment I'm guzzling Starbuck cappuccino loaded with sugar, so I won't keel over and die from low blood-sugar, aka hypoglycemia. Yeah I'm one of those lucky blood-sugar weirdos. I don't need insulin, I don't have to cut back on sugar, on the contrary, I need emergency candy on my person all the time.
Yeah the first time I realized there might be something wrong with me was a few months ago, when I went to the Rocky Horror Picture Show in Tampa, at the Tampa Pitcher Show (You should all go)
I was outside after the show and decided to have a smoke with two good friends of mine, much to the disapproval of the friends I came with. Anyways, I was the happiest I'd been in months, smoking for the first time in about 3 months, when my best guy friend smoking with me pointed out that my hands were shaking. It was cold out, but not enough to be shivering. Looking down and noticing the cigarette in my hand shaking severely along with my hand, I got kinda panicked, but I just played it off, saying I must be experiencing side effects of smoking again after so long (I think I said something like suffering withdrawal from withdrawal). The shaking went away after a bit.
The next weekend I was home again tohugh, It was about noon-ish and I hadn't had breakfast yet and the shaking started again.
I got really worried, because my dad had just tested his blood sugar for the day, and I remembered that shaking hands was a sign of diabetes. When I asked my mom about it, then showed her my shaking hands, she got really worried, but dad just asked me if I had eaten anything yet, and told me to go have my coffee and it'd go away.
Went to the doctor the next day, and she said I'm showing signs of hypoglycemia, and that I need to have snacks throughout the day and candy in case of emergencies. I also had to get my own blood-tester, and I have to prick my finger every morning before I eat. TT_TT Which is scary, because I'm afraid of needles. It takes me about 5 minutes to convince myself to do it, by clicking the needle-shooter thingy over and over while I say out loud that it doesn't hurt. It doesn't, but I have to re-convince myself every time.
Anyways, If my sugar gets too low, I get all weird and my hands start trembling, and it gets worse unless I eat something with sugar to bring it up quick, and then something with protein to stabilize it, which'll be enough to hold me over until I eat actual food. If I don't get my sugar up in time, I might start shaking real badly, and keel over and have a seizure and die.
This is something that started this year, and doctor said it might be because I'm away at college, where the food's iffy.
No matter how funny and awesome it is to need to have candy everyday, I kinda hope this goes away. When I tell people I'm hypoglycimic, they always go like, "Oh! You have diabetes? I'm so sorry."
That reaaallly ticks me off. >_> I'm not dying or anything.
Just letting all you know, if your hands ever start trembling and you don't know why and start to freak out, you should just eat something, anything, that has sugar in it. It should stop it. And you should probably go to the doctor, just in case.
=)
