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Old Mar 16, 2018, 07:15 PM
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Does anyones dissociation feel like low blood sugar before it happens? I have been to doctors about low blood sugar attacks for no good reason and all test come out fine but I can tell you these attacks do happen when triggered, stressed or after some therapy sessions.

Is it phycological or physiological? I do not think I actually have real low blood sugar but do grab food in a panic that I am going to pass out.
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Old Mar 17, 2018, 12:58 AM
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Does anyones dissociation feel like low blood sugar before it happens? I have been to doctors about low blood sugar attacks for no good reason and all test come out fine but I can tell you these attacks do happen when triggered, stressed or after some therapy sessions.

Is it phycological or physiological? I do not think I actually have real low blood sugar but do grab food in a panic that I am going to pass out.
no I dont get low blood sugar problems (sweating, anxiety, extreme hunger, dizzyness, headache, blurred vision and heart palpations, feeling like I am going to pass out) before I dissociated neither before integration nor after...

that said I did and do get these same problems with my panic/ anxiety disorders, and also with my mania phase of my bipolar disorder...

I also get these symptoms with my MS.

my treatment providers call it a panic attack in me.

my dissociation symptoms are that I go numb/ unfeeling/ lacking emotions/ sometimes feel like I am sinking but not like Im going to pass out its more like riding an elevator downwards feeling or like the feeling of falling asleep...calm and lacking stress/ emotions.
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Old Mar 17, 2018, 10:21 AM
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I'm borderline hypoglycemic. I don't mix that up with dissociation stuff (they feel different to me), I have been, however mixing it up with hypotension. I found out at my hospital stay that I have low blood pressure. I had no idea that the two had similar symptoms, but they do. Not that low blood pressure is generally a problem, but it might be worth checking out for you if for no other reason to get the symptoms figured out.

But yeah, like what amandalouise said, I have had people tell me that my stuff could be anxiety based as well due to similarities in symptoms. So it makes sense to me that if there is a correlation between being triggered and having these attacks that it could be both anxiety and dissociation based for you.

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