So we hear a lot about hypo awareness but what about hyper awareness.
I have stronger symptoms of high sugars than low.
Firstly my jaw starts to get tense and feels weird.
Then I get a sort of whole body tingling.
Of course the urine train starts, but for some reason I need to pee really bad but there is almost nothing in my bladder.
Then if I stay high then I start peeing like a horse.
If I let it go a long long time then I get sick to my stomach. Vomit dizziness
For me, I no longer have much hypo awareness. For hyper awareness, I get the tingly feeling that you describe ā¦ but probably not until about 350 mg/dL.
Long ago, I could do a pretty good job of guessing my BG by āfeelā ā¦ but no more. Thank you CGM, you have changed my life!!!
Stay safe!
John
I actually have more hypo awareness now than I did when I was younger. As for hyper awarenessā¦it varies.
For whatever reason, sometimes I feel perfectly normal at a high bg, and other times I donāt. If it gets too high I will always feel it and I will feel sick to my stomach and almostā¦weighed down? Like my limbs are heavy. For ānormalā highs, I get a feeling that I just canāt describe, but I know it when I feel it. I just feel āhighāā¦which of course would be taken in a completely different way if I said that outside of this community. 
The only high symptom Iāve ever felt is thirst. And even that I question. Iām thirsty almost all of the time anyway so Iām never really sure if that can be attributed to the high either. My blood sugar was 600 at diagnosis and I felt perfectly fine.
I do feel lows, but not consistently or early enough for it to be very useful.
I never feel highs and would have to be quite high to feel thirsty. I canāt remember the last time I felt thirsty. I do still feel lows, but not with hunger or sweating. More just an odd weak feeling, that I canāt really describe.
I guess Iām the only one with this jaw thing. I donāt think Iāve met another tight jaw diabetic.
Now I feel special
Until four years ago, I was always on a terrible rollercoaster, still using R/NPH. Had no complications, though, and could reliably tell you exactly what my BG was without testing. I could just feel everything. I almost never felt ill when high, it was more like just dehydrated.
Now that Iām living below a 6 A1c, I have ZERO tolerance for highs. My stomach turns sour around 200. If I get up to like 250, my thigh muscles seize. Theyāre so painful and I canāt walk.
And itās been this way since before I was diagnosed, but if Iām high, my bladder is like clockwork. I HAVE to pee every hour on the hour, no exceptions.
I donāt seem to ever feel a high. In the earlier years I could hit 450 and never feel a thing. I think itās been a few years since I even went over 300 so I donāt know if itās different now. But I did hit 256 the other day while snorkeling and never felt bad. I was probably higher as that was on the Libre which seems to always have a lower number than I am actually at.
This is an interesting post. I donāt know if we have ever discussed this.
I have never experienced the ājaw thing,ā or the muscle seizing.