# I feel it in my toes **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 18, 2024, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-it-in-my-toes/997713 "2024-02-18T00:49:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [February 18, 2024, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-it-in-my-toes/997713/1 "2024-02-18T00:49:06Z")
Woke up to a weird glucose alarm in the middle of the night(early morning really). I don’t know why I call it weird? It happens all too often. I was very low. Ivy gets to me. She hears my alarm as well. I’m eating sugar cubes and drinking sugared up OJ. It’s too slow. Ivy, in her vast medical knowledge, says let’s try a Lil’Debbie cake. Her theory (they all have one) is the masticating action that helps the sugar come up better. I’m trying to avoid glucose rescue injections. They often cause ME loads of other problems throughout the the following 24 hours. Not to mention the pain in my head. (YMMV) I got a Lil’ Debbie Strawberry Shortcake roll. I opened, smelled, and looked at it. Ivy sez “eat it, NOW!” She had the pen in her hand. So I jammed it in my mouth. Chewed a bit, as instructed. And swallowed. I swear to any deity that cares to back me up, I felt it in my toes. First. It tingled up to my knees. And my glucose came up. Rather quickly. Now, I need to perform further studies, but …I think this is better than the glucose rescue pen. And way less unpleasant (except for the Ivy part). Watch for my scientific paper put out for peer review. (Of course, IANAD, I’m not a scientist, so no one take my experience as medical advice. EVER. Really don’t) ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2024, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-it-in-my-toes/997713/2 "2024-02-18T01:10:33Z")
Little Debbie to the rescue! Anyone else hesring the old song I feel it in my fingers… ? ---
**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:** [February 18, 2024, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-it-in-my-toes/997713/3 "2024-02-18T01:21:24Z")
I’ve been singing it all day. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2024, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-it-in-my-toes/997713/4 "2024-02-18T01:35:44Z")
You should write to them and say how they helped you. They may send you some! ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2024, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-it-in-my-toes/997713/5 "2024-02-18T04:19:49Z")
Yes … ---
**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:** [February 18, 2024, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-it-in-my-toes/997713/6 "2024-02-18T04:42:33Z")
I’m thinking I probably shouldn’t have too much of those in the house. I’m fetishing a strawberry shortcake roll as I type. 😐 ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2024, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-it-in-my-toes/997713/7 "2024-02-18T10:10:13Z")
On the contrary, it sounds like you should definitely have them in the house, for emergency treatment of low glucose levels. Maybe you can get your health insurance to pay for them. ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2024, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-it-in-my-toes/997713/8 "2024-02-18T11:01:40Z")
Why not just get some glucose tablets? They are the fastest way to increase your blood _glucose_. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2024, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-it-in-my-toes/997713/9 "2024-02-18T12:04:36Z")
Keep some in the freezer, they are even better cold! I’ll bet it has to do with the smell. The brain responds at the deepest possible level to smells, and Lil’Debbie snakcakes smell more like sugar than sugar does. So glad to hear that the alarm system is working well. ---
**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:** [February 18, 2024, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-it-in-my-toes/997713/10 "2024-02-18T19:59:28Z")
They make me puke. Really. In these alarm times puking is not a good way to extend my chance of living through it ---
**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:** [February 18, 2024, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-it-in-my-toes/997713/11 "2024-02-18T20:00:13Z")
I agree about the smell. It’s intoxicating. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2024, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-it-in-my-toes/997713/12 "2024-02-18T20:20:15Z")
Lil Debbie stuff is okay, but the really good stuff is Hostess. Hostess chocolate cupcakes taste good. Hostess Twinkies taste…well, yeah, like chemicals, but with a whole bunch of sugar covering it up till it’s pretty good. And Hostess fruit-filled pies with sugar-frosted icing are too sweet for me…but they may be good for an emergency diabetic sugar rush. ---
**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:** [February 18, 2024, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-it-in-my-toes/997713/13 "2024-02-18T20:26:44Z")
I agree. Hostess is the better brand. But it was what we had. I was kinda surprised they were in the house. Mid-dau keeps them for lunch boxes. They never hang around long. And, about the the glucose tablets. I definitely can’t stomach those. I do have the gel. It’s second to last resort before the rescue shot. ---
**Author:** ![Common\_Tater](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/common_tater/32/13846_2.png) [@Common\_Tater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Common_Tater)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-it-in-my-toes/997713/14 "2024-02-19T03:02:11Z")
When I was younger I noticed at about the 4th Reese’s peanut butter cup my arms would start tingling.