Could my 1pm shakiness be glucose, not appetite?

2026-10-07 1467 views 2 posts

2026-10-07 12:19

I’m about four months in and generally feel flat-appetite, not shaky. Yesterday I had yogurt at 7:30, got pulled into back-to-back calls, and didn’t eat again until almost 2. Around 12:45 I got clammy, irritable, and weirdly weak. I used an old fingerstick meter: 78, then 104 after a small snack.

That doesn’t scream crash to me, but it didn’t feel like plain hunger either. In the trials, these meds can change gastric emptying and glucose-dependent insulin release, so I get why a delayed meal might hit differently.

Still, one reading is not a pattern, and I’m not trying to diagnose myself from a forum. For the mechanism-minded folks: do you separate low-ish glucose from just under-eating, dehydration, or the med itself? What do you actually track before you call it a crash?

2026-10-12 01:01

that 78 then 104 sounds more like “I haven’t eaten in 6 hours and my body is mad” than a true crash. I get the same clammy/irritable thing on chaotic days, especially if I’ve had coffee but no real protein.

My snack drawer is string cheese, turkey sticks, and salted nuts—something with protein + salt, not just carbs. Did you check again before the snack, or only after?

Also worth jotting down caffeine, water, and whether you’d been standing/sitting weird. For me it was often not hunger at all, just under-fueled + dehydrated.

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