# Anyone else with hypoglycemia somtime just think you're cold? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 5, 2017, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-with-hypoglycemia-somtime-just-think-youre-cold/798002 "2017-10-05T04:24:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-with-hypoglycemia-somtime-just-think-youre-cold/798002/1 "2017-10-05T04:24:34Z")
So, I’m sitting here, shivering, and I checked the thermostat, which says 68’F, normally what we keep the apartment at. And I’ve been kinda feeling warm a lot lately, and wondering if these are finally the hot flashes of menopause, so I’m really puzzled, but I put on some sweatpants, and still not warming up. Now, I have been hypoglycemic most of my adult life. This is nothing new. Yet, I go through this “D’oh,” all the time. I shiver, and can’t seem to warm up, and think about making hot chocolate, when I finally go, “Uh, check blood sugar.” Of course, it’s 60. That’s not even all that low for me, except I have been inactive for the last several hours. I split a hard cider with my husband after dinner, which can even do this to me, and I know that, even though I barely drank any of it. So I got a sugar-free yogurt, and I’m fine now. But why don’t I learn? Is it because being hypoglycemic makes me stupid? I know enough to put on sweats. I know enough to check the thermostat. I don’t even feel cold, I just have the shakes, which are classic low blood sugar. But somehow my lizard brain wants me to be cold. Is that it? Is it because being cold is “normal,” and low blood sugar isn’t? and so my brain is stuck in some kind of primitive response? Does this happen to anyone else with blood sugar issues? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-with-hypoglycemia-somtime-just-think-youre-cold/798002/2 "2017-10-05T11:46:32Z")
When I am crashing, I start sweating. Hit the low 50’s, and the cold sweat starts. Oh course the lizard brain is screaming “Eat anything!” By that point. There is a reason light OJ is in the fridge. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-with-hypoglycemia-somtime-just-think-youre-cold/798002/3 "2017-10-05T14:14:42Z")
No. For me (Type II diabetic) it starts with a twinge of hunger in my stomach and is downright painful if it goes on too long. I feel dizzy and literally “beside myself.” It can creep up on me but it always makes itself known in the worst ways. The difference is in the diagnosis, I guess. I am sort of glad the signs aren’t so subtle! ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-with-hypoglycemia-somtime-just-think-youre-cold/798002/4 "2017-10-05T15:35:52Z")
I get cold sweats when I’m running low. Sometimes I mistake this for over exertion. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-with-hypoglycemia-somtime-just-think-youre-cold/798002/5 "2017-10-05T16:10:14Z")
Yes, happens to lots of people with sugar issues. I am ‘hot natured’ so I appreciate feeling cool. But, I agree it is an uncomfortable kinda wiggly cold! ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-with-hypoglycemia-somtime-just-think-youre-cold/798002/6 "2017-10-05T16:44:12Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Yes, happens to lots of people with sugar issues. I am ‘hot natured’ so I appreciate feeling cool. But, I agree it is an uncomfortable kinda wiggly cold! The problem is that I confuse “shakes” with cold shivers. I get two kinds of shakes. If my blood sugar suddenly plummets, my hands shake like I have Parkinson’s, I feel dizzy, and my legs are rubbery. That’s unmistakable. My problem is with a more subtle form of the shakes, which comes on slowly, and is more of a tremble in my trunk and head, with my hands shaking, but not so bad I can barely do anything. That’s what I confuse with cold shivers. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-with-hypoglycemia-somtime-just-think-youre-cold/798002/7 "2017-10-05T18:17:24Z")
I do get cold when I haven’t eaten for a while, but that’s a separate issue from low blood sugar. I can get cold if I’ve been eating very well and am nowhere near a crash. \*That \*comes with lightheadedness and shakes. ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-with-hypoglycemia-somtime-just-think-youre-cold/798002/8 "2017-10-06T02:52:06Z")
I often feel hot when my blood sugar gets low,and my skin kind of feels prickly, if that makes sense. I get a little shaky and emotional (anything could make me cry). When I don’t recognize the symptoms and eat something, I have gastrointestinal issues.