This morning I felt really good and clear headed. Leg muscles a little wobbly on the way to work but not ill. I made sure I had a much bigger breakfast and much bigger lunch. So no problems until about 17:30 when the body started to feel shivery and less happy.
- too little sodium
- 2 little sugar
- flu bug back.
Lets do a little experiment. First of all take my temperature. If I am fit and well then I should not get severe shivering unless my core temperature is climbing seriously. Ear temp 36.5
o so that pretty much rules out sepsis.
Then 1 teaspoon of honey and some strawberry mousse (home made with sugar free jelly but full cream carnation and lots of strawberries) and within 10 minutes I am beginning to feel much better.I am still well below my carbs limit for today so I think a big milky drink at night time should do the trick and I may even take some dextrose tablets to bed with me!
It has been a very interesting experiment so far and whilst as a surgeon I let other people deal with hypoglycaemia, I will have more insight, certainly scary and not nice. My wife was particularly scared as she saw a slightly delusional confused rather ill husband last night who argued that nothing was wrong and wouldn't let the doctor be called! Of course as the medic in the house anything I says goes absolutely with illness.
OK thanks for listening and reading. I hope this will help somebody else