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[artemisofluna]

Yesterday I nearly cut my finger off cutting up tomatoes for a salad. And today my nephew, sister and the family flew away from me :( TWO BIG FROWNS! And Jayann went back to Missoula but hopefully she is coming back next week yayyyy!

BUT I went out to lunch with my mommy, and tonight we are having tacos (I am not allowed to cut tomatoes), there's a storm coming (STORMS YAY) and I bought my NZ housemates (and friends) Twinkies so they could try them and be like the people in the films. Eating gross things. I also got Butterfingers. I have a list. It makes me LOL silently.

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[artemisofluna.livejournal.com]

I was so calm. I said, "uh oh" and my mother said, "OH NO DID YOU CUT YOURSELF?!" and I was like "Yeah. Right through the nail actually. Do you have bandaids" and my mother put two on because one wasn't enough. And I was totally calm and it didn't hurt that much, it's just damn annoying!

Yeah, I did that so you don't have to ;)

Luckily, I can still do starches. But sugars...nooo. Not even fruit without something to balance it. I just get so....eugh. And I do it and then I'm like "WHYYYYY?!"

[pretty-kozi.livejournal.com]

Yeah I'm not supposed to have the white starches. Breads, pasta, cereal, rice, etc, etc...because that's what makes my sugars go down with fire! It's still the run of WHY, and it messes up my head. Ever feel like you're floating around, in a daze like looking in a window but nothing is looking back? Weird I know...but yeah.

[artemisofluna.livejournal.com]

I am so glad the starches don't get to me. Other things do, though I can't for the life of me think what they are. Actually sometimes red meat does it (I HAVE NO IDEA HOW), but I'll never stop eating it.

But yes, I do indeed know how that feels. All.the.time. It's...ugh.

[pretty-kozi.livejournal.com]

Oh man lucky you. I can actually deal without the rice and potatoes (I've grown to love sweet potatoes because of it), but the crackers, bread and biscuits are one thing I love like crazy. I've heard that about red meat, but that is weird since it's a protein and that's what I have to eat all the time...

It's a weird feeling, and like you can't keep your thoughts from going all over the place. It's spastic even to an extent. Half the time I feel like my head is detached from the rest of me and that's sooo weird. It's never good to do things like drive home when you feel spacey like that, and stare at the car's tail lights in front of you because of no other reason than their bright. Then never knowing how you got home...that's really weird. Half the time I think that's what makes my thoughts bounce from one subject to the next so abruptly like I can't keep focus and I start babbling...

I'm kind of glad I have someone to talk to about this sort of thing, I don't feel so alone and like no one understands it when I try to explain the feelings it gives you.

[artemisofluna.livejournal.com]

I have been told I have to eat protein anyway, but sometimes it does make me spacey and crashy.

I run into walls all the time because my body feels detached from me and I don't know where the edges of it are and people just DO NOT understand. I'm so glad you do *clings* I hate not being able to focus. I think I made a post a while back about staring at my curtains because there was a piece of lint on them that looked like a shark and I just...stared...for the longest time. Staring. Wow, me.

I totally get it and don't mind talking about it because while my friends are amazing listeners and they let me complain about it because they're champions, it's such a hidden thing and you just CANNOT explain it to someone who has never experienced it.

[pretty-kozi.livejournal.com]

I love you?

Yes, same here. And sometimes you get cranky without warning. I've had times where I seriously had NO crashing symptoms at all I just. got. ill. I started throwing things around my room and taking down stuff off the walls and then when I ate something it was like 'oh hi, I'm okay now'. I was like wtf. The problem is you KNOW you're acting in such ways but can't stop yourself from doing it until the crash is over.

And sometimes, yeah it is like being drunk or high without actually being drunk or high. And it's freaking ODD. I ate a pack of ramen once and the next day I really felt drunk, and telling someone that was hard to explain. I mean people that have sugar crashes have been known to be stopped by cops because the cops think they are drunk driving and then find out, nope their sugars are off balance.

Maybe that's why hypoglycemics aren't supposed to drink, it would do so much crazy to the already crazy.

Yes, I'm really, really glad to have someone to talk to with it. You're right if someone hasn't experienced it at all, even if they're listening it's hard for someone to really get it if they haven't been through one before. And for the longest time before I was actually diagnosed with it, I thought I was crazy or something.

[artemisofluna.livejournal.com]

♥

Yeah, the bitchy thing happens to me. A lot. And I have no idea why I'm angry I just AM. And yep, there's no stopping it!

I feel off-balance all the time, I can't imagine drinking a lot would make a HUGE difference. I wonder what it would feel like to...like...be IN balance. Ever. Just once.

It took a long time for me to get a diagnosis too because it's so hidey and sometimes it's not an issue and others WOW IT REALLY IS and augh.

I woke up a few weeks ago thinking I was DYING because my chest hurt so much. I thought it was a heart attack, it was TERRIFYING. I was just so hungry my chest hurt. But I had eaten like...six hours before that. Stupid blood sugar.

[pretty-kozi.livejournal.com]

HUNGER PAINS. I get those too. We just keep listing stuff and it's like "nod, nod" I get ya man. Totally. Mine starts to hurt so bad like my stomach is twisting and turning inside out if I don't eat for a long period of time. I HATE that feeling, because you can't think straight.

I feel that way all the time too. Like my head is in fifty different places at once, and when I talk to someone in person, I'm as random as hell. They could say something and it flips me to another topic almost immediately. I don't do it to be rude, or seem like I'm not paying attention to what they're saying, its just the way my brain rolls.

UGH YES! My doctor at the time kept doing bloodwork saying oh it's 'normal' for a teen to have these sugar problems. REALLY? When their parent and aunts and uncles on one side are ALL diabetics? That doesn't throw up red flags? So I switched doctors, one who diagnosed his own daughter with diabetes and he knew that glucose tolerance test was the only thing that was gonna show what I had. SURE enough, took it and within the third hour of the like what 6 hour test---it crashes to 40---and you have to. sit. through. it. Ugh terrible feeling, but it gave them what they needed. Dude we need like form a hypoglycemia group and inform peeps bout this stuff. It ain't easy.

[artemisofluna.livejournal.com]

I know, this list is epic and it just proves this is a real issue people say isn't a problem. *Sigh* It happens to me after like two hours and it just gets worse and worse augh. I am hungry like...all the time. ALL the time. And people don't tend to get why.

That test was one of the worst things I have done EVER. It was so horrible and I cried for hours.

WE DO NEED TO FORM THIS! FOR UNITY!

[artemisofluna.livejournal.com]

Yep. Complained about the feeling high without being high here

Shark schpunt!

[pretty-kozi.livejournal.com]

OH yes, I know that feeling well. I've never been high or drunk either, but that's the best dang explanation for it and people just DON'T realize that when your sugars are out of wack EVERYTHING is out of wack and for a while. It messes with your stability, your head, your heart, how you feel, how you think, and what's worse with hypoglycemia is that you can't take anything for it. All you can do is eat right and exercise. We can't take drugs and pills and shots like a diabetic.

Hrm...question now....do you ever get like the inner trembling thing? Where you like are shivering but on the inside? I get that a lot and it freaks me out. I used to think it was because I was nervous or excited or even angry at something, but found out later it's on the list of symptoms.

[artemisofluna.livejournal.com]

I DO! I tremble 24/7 but sometimes it's worse than others. Sometimes I can hardly type and forget writing by hand. My hands shake all the time so my handwriting is terrible anyway but yeah. I hate it when I'm so shakey I can't type. It's annoying.

[pretty-kozi.livejournal.com]

OH GOOD. Well, not good but yes for me not being the only one. I hate the trembling and when its inside its really awkward. Like your insides are cold but there's no breeze. O_o

[artemisofluna.livejournal.com]

I hate that feeling :( I actually talked to my housemates about that exact feeling a few months ago. I was like "My stomach is COLD but that makes NO SENSE" and she was like O_O

[pretty-kozi.livejournal.com]

And then you cant. stop. shaking. It just like goes like some sort of tic.

I've noticed something too, in movies I've seen recently more and more people are putting in scenarios where people/characters are hypoglycemic but like...I don't think people still get it yet. Anyways. Yeah....that was random.

[artemisofluna.livejournal.com]

I wish it would get out there more because obviously Lewi's parents didn't believe me though bless him, Lewi did. And my housemates do. But it's still such an unknown condition and that's SO frustrating.

[pretty-kozi.livejournal.com]

I do too! I had a boyfriend once that thought everytime I felt 'sick' I was faking it. Can't fake a sugar attack dood, like not ever. It is frustrating, even when you work with people and tell them unless they SEE you near crash to the floor, talking hysterically and crying because you feel so bad but keep telling them your fine, can't really even get a glimpse of it.

I was fifteen when that stuff started happening, and god knows I love my parents to death that they are okay and understand it, and the friends I have that have stuck around for so long despite some really weird stuff that happens sometimes when your moods go all out of whack. My dad is diabetic and my mother has to deal with it. I've read and heard that oftentimes the people that suffer the worst with people with blood sugar attacks are their loved ones and friends. Because they have to deal with us. XD

[artemisofluna.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHHAHHAA I was reading through the blood sugar tag and I found a post where I rejoice because a candy bar didn't make me sick. I remember that day. THAT WAS A GOOD DAY.

I should so link to these comments when people ask me what it feels like.

[pretty-kozi.livejournal.com]

Oh hahaha. I've had a few of those, but those are few and far between kinds of occasions. I like cake too, and sugary drinks but afterward I can get so hyper its freaky. I start talking a mile a minute, bouncing...like literally bouncing for no apparent reason....

Oh you should. You so should, this has been informative and somewhat comfortable. I don't think I'm talking crazy shit out my ass and people thinking I'm making it up.

[artemisofluna.livejournal.com]

Oh the hyper before the crash. Yep. Yepperdoodle. I laugh and can't stop and make people stare at me in terrified wonder. I actually don't really like cake much. Well...I don't like the frosting because the crash is almost immediate. It's a learned dislike because I like the taste! I just hate the way it makes me feel. But banana cake is awesome and I know how to be more careful with it so that helps!

You absolutely are not. Everything you've said is something I've been through!

[pretty-kozi.livejournal.com]

Oh the laughing is creepy, but yes I've done that too. Giggling like some little kid, skipping and grinning manically. It's strange. Then as soon as that starts BAM you feel like you're gonna throw up.

I'm not much for chocolate actually. And now it just hit me the reason you prolly DO have probs with red meat. My dad does too actually. Sometimes a burger or baked potato can make you crash as fast as a slice of cake or pie. There's something in the mix that just doesn't agree with some people's sugars. The fastest thing for me that I've learned to use when it crashes so low is an apple or orange juice. Then there's the sugar under your tongue thing. Mmmm...pumpkin pie I could NEVER live without. NEVER. Any pumpkin spice/flavored anything I must have!

Oh that's fantastic, really, and see if it wasn't for Circe's 'Lara come be our Patroclus' then I never would have found all that out and stuffs. So thank you Circe if you're reading! ^^

[artemisofluna.livejournal.com]

Ugh, YES.

I'm not as big on chocolate as some people either. It's just kind of eh for me.

Juice works well for me, but I have to back it up with something not sugary or I'll crash again. It's just...ugh.

Hurrah for Circe :D

[pretty-kozi.livejournal.com]

Maybe that's a trend then, and not just us? Hahaha. NO CHOCOLATE. WOOOOHOOOO.

Oh yeah, I get you there.

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That's right. I'm fuckin' AWESOME.

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That was never in doubt from my end, Gorgeous!