She came home telling me about how she couldn't keep herself awake during the day and that she was so tired that she knocked out on the company bus on the way home. She ate bread almost as soon as she got home because she was absolutely famished.
Famished, tired and sleepy from not enough food. These symptoms sound a little too familiar to me. I told her, maybe you were experiencing a hypo. I'm a Type 1 diabetic and hypo, short for hypoglycaemia, is a condition that I face when my blood sugar level goes below the normal range. My symptoms are very much like that prior to a hypo – fatigue, hunger and sleepiness. When my blood sugars does get low, it gets a little more extreme and I would start to see white spots in my vision, tremble and would need to stop whatever I'm doing before I can resume whatever I was doing but that's another story.
It's not abnormal that people without diabetes experience symptoms of having low blood sugar. It's just that their body reacts accordingly to ensure that it doesn't result in a dramatic ending and raises the blood sugar by using the reserves stored up in the liver.
So if you did a fast today and felt like how my Mom felt, you pretty much had yourself a small experience of a hypo.
I do hope your start to Lent was great!
- posted on behalf of Rachel Er
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