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[quote=Anonymous]Seriously, if you are having frequent episodes of lightheaded shakiness, you need to get a glucometer and see what is going on. If you normally live at a glucose of 120-130 and your BG hits 80, you might feel bad. But if you aren't taking medication that would further drop your glucose levels, it's ok to wait it out a bit, recheck in 10 minutes and see what's going on. Your body releases insulin, assuming that your pancreas works, both in anticipation of food and in response to food: so if you ate a high carb snack, and you overreacted and released more insulin than you needed, you might feel shaky when you run out of glycogen. At that point, your body has to switch to gluconeogenesis, or making glucose out of stored fat. Those pathways take a little while to show results, though, especially when your body isn't used using them. That's why the suggestion to wait. If you feel worse, recheck your sugar, bearing in mind that 60 is adequate and 70 is great.....[/quote]
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