So I eat the same thing for breakfast and lunch during the work week. Because I’m new to T 1 it’s easier for me. I have great numbers but about 3pm I feel weird. I test and my sugars are normal…80 to 90 after 2 hours. My problem is that I feel like I’m low. I know it takes a bit because I was high so my body is adjusting to being “normal” (funny how I will never be normal again 
) but how long does this last? I felt good tonight but my blood sugar was 150. Argh. I have been on insulin for approx 3 weeks now
and only had one night low.
That is definitely something that can happen early on, and it will go away. Some of it is just your brain learning to interpret things differently, and three weeks really isn’t that long for that. I was still having all kinds of readjustments in the first couple of months of being dx’d.
Now I have a similar problem but of the opposite cause. Dunno if this helps, but after 33 years with T1 and finally moving to a pump about 3 years ago, at some point I too noticed I was having this “feeling low but pretty normal BG” issue. Pumping had helped stabilize things for me, and it suddenly occurred to me that I had been so ingrained to react to that sensation as a “Danger Danger Will Robinson” alarm that I’d totally forgotten: sometimes you’re just, y’know, hungry. That can happen too!
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This is an ongoing problem for me (and I’ve been T1 for 33 years now.)
If I feel funny (hypo-like), I check my bg, it’s low, I correct it, I understand all that.
But other times I feel funny, I check my bg, and it’s just fine. Sometimes am able to tie it to me being frustrated/angry for other reasons (which also causes adrenaline release - just like a low bg).
Maybe like DrBB notes, it’s just that I am hungry and has nothing to do with bg at the moment. Maybe I’m trying too hard to turn all my moods/feelings into bg clues.
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I get the same “low” feeling when my BG is dropping fast.
Until I used a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) for a while I was totally confused by the sensation as I’d “feel” low but when I checked I was either “normal” or even a little high. The CGM showed me that virtually every time I experienced the felling my BG was dropping fast and my body was telling me “hey, we’re gonna go low unless you eat something”.
Wheelman
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Me, too, but sometimes I am so focused on what I’m doing that I don’t notice till the low alert sounds!
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Oh yeah, almost forgot: Seasonal allergies make me angry/confused/fuzzy-headed in a way that’s easy to confuse with hypo symptoms.
For me the worst is in the fall (grasses), others are affected by spring allergies (pollen) instead.
I have the same issue but typically it when I’m stressing about what my Bs is and fearful I’m low. Mine is a head issue. Once I test the, feeling goes away.
I also don’t feel good at 80-90 a lot of the time, I often feel weak, hungry, tired and my bg can drop easily from there with any activity. If it’s coming down from a high it can feel good but if it keeps dropping it’s only momentary until is sinks a bit more. It can happen higher up too.
I don’t feel good at higher numbers either. I feel ill most of the time. Right now my bg has spiked to 245 after eating after fasting for a blood test. This am my dex showed it dropping to LOW while I slept. It was 68 finger stick when I woke up. Yesterday I had a bad low at night which came on suddenly after a light dinner and a very small bolus and it was dropping earlier in the day too.
150 is not that bad so be happy if that is your spike.
When I’m hungry it is almost ALWAYS my bg, it may not even be low but it’s going to drop when I get that feeling so I just eat something low carb and often don’t bolus for it.
Early on I would sometimes get that weak shaky feeling that signals the beginning of a low, testing would show normal BG, and I’d sit there shaking my head trying to figure out what was going on. Then I would ask myself, “HOW many cups of coffee have you had today?”
“Oh . . . . yeah . . . uh-huh . . . . [slaps forehead] . . . .” 
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