When my
levels are low I feel really shaky, find it really hard to concentrate and my
skin goes pale but everyone has different symptoms when their levels are low. The
most common symptoms of low levels are feeling sweaty, feeling shaky, feeling
hungry, tiredness, blurred vision, lack of concentration, headaches, feeling
tearful, stroppy or moody or going pale. Everyone gets different symptoms
because everyone’s bodies are different so we all react in different ways when
our levels are low. Your levels can go
low because you have had too much insulin, you have missed a meal, you have done
a lot of physical activity or other reasons. However sometimes there is no
obvious cause of your levels going low. Sometimes people worry that their levels
will go low in the night and they won’t wake up and realise; I worry about this
a lot too. The hospital told me that I will only wake up in the night if I am
having a bad low because my symptoms would wake me up, so if my levels weren’t very
low then I wouldn’t wake up because I don’t need to. I don’t worry as much
about it now after what the hospital have told me.
When my
levels are high I get stomach pains, headaches and I get really thirsty. Everyone
gets different symptoms when their levels are high. Your levels can go high
because you may have missed an insulin dose, not given enough insulin, been
snacking on food, over-treating a hypo, stressed about something or being
unwell with an infection. When your levels have been running high this can make
you feel really tired and wear you out for the rest of the day. Sometimes it can be hard to work out what symptoms you get when your levels are high or low. Having low or high levels can make you feel really rubbish and unwell but you will be able to get through it, I know you will. You are stronger then you think you are.
