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Maybe my body just over reacts to regular low blood sugar or something. I don’t know; but it’s a terrifying feeling when it happens

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Oh sorry I remembered wrong, hugs and glad you’re getting tested now.

Thanks, and who knows it could be a medication side effect too. I have no clue. I’ll find out though.

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Bluebird are you on metformin?

Nope, I used to be on it a few years ago

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Regardless of whether I have diabetes or prediabetes or just regular low blood sugar or whatever, I still will need to improve my diet. Like I consume way too much sugar and my cholesterol has been high over the past couple years which isn’t good. Maybe my body would do better with 5 or 6 small “meals” a day instead of 3 regular sized meals spaced way out. I seem to do okay when I’m eating regularly every 2-3 hours. It’s when it gets past that point that I start having symptoms.

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It’s just hard to eat healthy when food (especially healthy food) is so expensive. But I’ll work on it

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My dietician recommends to me to eat more often. Like breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, dinner. I’ve been eating more snacks and I don’t find myself ravenous or weak anymore. Maybe you just need to eat more snacks?

What does a typical meal look like? I mean you’re not purposely restricting but it’s easy to fall into small ‘healthy’ meals that are lacking carbs and protein.

Wouldn’t hurt to think about and try something different.

I hope your blood tests work out fine. Even if you have diabetes it’s very manageable I hear. You’ll be fine no matter what happens! I believe in you.

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Thank you! Yes I’m wondering also if I’m just not eating properly even though I feel I’m eating regularly. I might not be eating enough of the food groups like you said protein and carbs etc

Usually my meals are like very simple single type of food, like I’ll have some pasta with sauce or oatmeal and a banana, or some chicken nuggets. Yeah not the best. I need to work on getting more balanced with the food groups and I probably do need to eat snacks because currently I only eat 3 meals a day and no snacks. So I’m guessing going 4-5 hours between meals isn’t great. I mean maybe some people can but clearly I need to eat more often if I’m having this issue.

I do notice on days I make an effort to eat two snacks between my three meals I tend to not have the issue of the shakiness and throwing up.
Regardless it will be good to have the diabetes ruled out since it’s been a couple years since I’ve had blood work done and I want to be 100% sure it’s not it since it does run pretty rampantly through one side of my family, and the APs and their metabolic effects.

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I’m also sure eating lots of highly sugary stuff probably makes me have blood sugar drops/lows soon after, because that’s what sugar does. But yeah I’ll work on it. Another part of the problem is I’m lazy with meal prepping. I tend to not feel like cooking most of the time, so sometimes when I’m my blood sugar feels low I don’t have anything on hand that I can immediately eat to relieve it , so it just gets worse. I need to start stocking up on like snacks and cheese, veggies and hummus and stuff like that

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Anyone every play any of those horror games Five Nights at Freddy’s? I was playing the first one in the middle of the night last night on my phone with Bluetooth earphones on and the jump-scare in it scared the hell out of me. lol i typically don’t play horror games because they are very immersive so can be scary at times but it’s also fun in a way

Anyway, I’m excited to get my new yugioh decks and learn how they work, learn different combos and techniques for when I play with them against my bf

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My boyfriend got me ukulele strings for my tenor and soprano ukuleles, violin strings, rosin for the violin , a bow, and some card sleeves for my trading cards for my birthday. Those are some really thoughtful gifts, especially since I needed new ukulele strings. And I can get back into violin. I have a really cheap beginners violin someone gave me. So he got me strings and a bow and rosin for it and I’m gonna start playing it again. I will need to get myself a mute for it at some point though because it will be too loud to play without one in my apartment. I played violin growing up in orchestra, I loved it a lot. I wish I didn’t give it up when I did. Anyway, yeah now I have a functional keyboard, my two ukuleles and a violin. So lots to do in terms of music

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I’m not a dietician but I would say you need to eat a bit more. Especially focus on things like complex carbs and protein. Maybe try adding something like a meat sauce or meatballs with your pasta and sauce. And having some veggies or potatoes with chicken nuggets. Try having some nuts or even a side of eggs with your oatmeal. Like if you’re having salad add chicken.

And snacks, yea. Like cheese and nuts or fruit and nuts. Granola bars. Protein bars. Veggies and hummus or ranch or tzatziki. Fruit and cottage cheese or something.

My dietician talks a lot about adding fiber too so like flax seeds with yogurt. Flax seeds in smoothies. Maybe a protein powder in smoothies. She also suggests for snacks have a balance of protein and carbs. Like I suggested above.

Protein will keep you fuller longer. Simple carbs like sugar or pasta go through your body pretty quick and leave you hungry pretty quickly.

I know with a limited budget it’s hard but I’d suggest to at least try to get more protein. And larger sizes of fruit and veg or complex carbs.

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Thank you I appreciate the tips, I will work on doing all that I did used to make protein smoothies with fruit, almond milk, and protein powder and that always helped keep me full between meals for example. Those are all good ideas, I’m going grocery shopping on Monday so I’ll add some of that stuff to my list

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Okay so I just did a grocery order, I got almond milk, chia seeds, flax seeds, protein bars, and protein powder. I have plenty of nuts like pecans, walnuts, and hazelnuts, at home , have raisins , I have lots of meat in the freezer, ton of string cheese sticks already, i have a big canister of oatmeal, I have various pastas and pasta sauces, eggs, soups, macaroni and cheese, rice etc I will go to the grocery store in person on Monday to get fresh fruits and vegetables.

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Oh and I’ll get big containers of Greek yogurt and cottage cheese.

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All sounds really good! Really balanced too!

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It could be anxiety. When I was a teenager, one of the people at my work told me she was so afraid of another work place when she was there she used to throw up every morning. Maybe you're feeling increased anxiety because you've been thinking about working.

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It’s possible. I’ve never thrown up from anxiety before but who knows, normally when I’m anxious I just dissociate , it definitely feels like it’s related to food though because it only happens when I’m not eating every 3 hours, and the shakiness etc feels more like low blood sugar than anxiety, I don’t know what it is to be honest. Almost immediately after eating I feel better

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Speaking of working it turns out all those peer support specialist positions you have to have a drivers license to qualify for the job. I don’t even have a permit. So that sucks. I’ll keep looking and hopefully find something. I just need someone to give me a chance. I think I’d be a good employee. I am doing well with volunteering. But my anxiety has been so out of control lately. I dissociate so frequently now it doesn’t take much stress to set it off. The worst feeling is when it happens when I’m walking down the street , it’s scary.

My program manager said he could help me with getting the process started to get a permit and a license. I want to, I’m just scared of dissociating while driving and causing an accident or something. I think I’m just gonna have to stuck by relying on walking and buses for transportation. That would be too dangerous for me and for everyone else on the road.

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I think I need to work on what’s it called, exposure therapy or something like that. To like stress and social situations.

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Yes, it really does seem much more food related. Lately I've been getting the shakes after vaping a bit, and I guess it's a new side effect for me. I've been trying not to overdose on nicotine but I don't know what else it could be. I used to smoke very heavily but I don't remember getting the shakes from it.

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That’s scary, I don’t smoke but when I was a teenager I smoked a bunch of cigarettes really fast one time and got extremely shaky nauseous and threw up. Is the nicotine dosage higher than normal for you? I don’t really know anything about vaping, I hope it goes away though

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No, in fact I'm vaping much less now, usually only once a day. Getting shakes, nausea and vomiting sounds like a nicotine overdose beyond what I'm getting from vaping. I could totally see that happening to someone binging on cigarettes. I've been wanting to vape a certain liquid I have but it's a higher nicotine dose so I've been avoiding it. So far the worst side effect I'm getting is agitation from vaping. It's like RLS in my whole body. I used to get this from smoking too.

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Soz! (As Newtus would say), I'm heavily disorganized. I'll be back though. I gotta organize the mind/life.

I think just the least things I have to do, just sitting there.. thinking.., I'm like "Ok - There's nothing more to do online, now I'll attend to the ..

had to kill an ant. They are here...

, goals..). Like Jordan Peterson would say (With the question of "How are you doing?") - "Terrific, and terrible *cries*".

I'm gonna work 4 days now instead of 3 (For 3 months). It'll be a challenge. But I'm sure I can do it. Gotta be grateful, for my bed.. to sleep, antipsychotically, and every good thing. I chatted with some people on the lawn, socialized...

Autist friend it helping me with free books, and academic pdfs from the dark web etc.. I'm building something.. Just following the light (That people can think is darkness - But they are wrong..). I can save everyone, just cuz it's the hardest - But most natural, better path.. Either that, or I alcohol myself to death in a tent city. It's not my choice, but a calling by heavenly forces. If it's hell, then w/e.. I've been through enough of it already.

I still don't pick sides of things anyways. I have no opinions. I just am, right now - And I try to be okay with that. I have billions of years to sort things out, weaved through the faster time-space dimensions within this life, once they are mirrored with the now, us.. Maybe God.

God made me a junky, but the devil told me so.. (No jk lol).