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Yeah, hypoglycemia sucks. I was diagnosed hypoglycemic back in high school, after two episodes of blacking out between calculus and band class. I also feel spac
by cowpewter 12y ago
Yeah, hypoglycemia sucks. I was diagnosed hypoglycemic back in high school, after two episodes of blacking out between calculus and band class. I also feel spacey and disconnected and unable to process language when my blood sugar drops, and just before blacking out I'll usually start either laughing or crying uncontrollably. When blacked out I can still walk though. The second time I walked straight into a pole, according to my friends, though my memory stops a good 20 feet away from the pole, just after saying, "I think it's happening again," and starting to laugh even though I was terrified. I have a brief memory of standing in front of pole, then nothing again until a good ten minutes later, in front of a water fountain in the school office (which is where my friends steered me).
When it first happened I literally thought I was losing my mind, due to stress or a tumor or something. When the doctor calmly said, actually that just sounds like low blood sugar, let's schedule a glucose tolerance test, it was a huge relief. I was on "second lunch" due to my class schedule, and wound up getting permission to eat a protein bar during calculus so it didn't happen again in school.