Hi Bevan,
The symptoms that you are describing have happened to my uncle few years ago. But he went to hospital and it was diabetes. They ran some more test and he got prescription for insulin. He is still using it and now he is all good.
But you said you were tested and it is not diabetes. Then this could relate to your blood pressure. Have you had any problems with blood pressure in the past? Are you using any medication right now? There is always possibility that the shaking is a side effect to some medication. What did your doctor told you? Did he had any suggestions? You need to do some more test to find out what is causing this.
Hope this helps. Ask your GP to recommend a cardiologist.
I have diabetic complicacy. In 2009 I started feeling shaky and very abnormal. Most probably, I gave long gap between meals and probably I took more medications than required(Diamicron and Metformin) Sugar did not show low in the meter but feeling low. I could not understand that it was low sugar symptoms. I visited emergencies, but they could not understand anything like me, because sugar was not low in measurements It was 5 to 9 mmol/l then . More two months I was feeling constant shakiness, fear panic etc. Then my family physician stopped Diamicron and metformin, I was feeling little better but sugar went high. I was afraid of eating Carbs for going further high. It was then 10 to 16 mmol. I started eating vegetable and very little carb. After two hours of eating sugar came down to 10 from 15 and then sugar tried to go down too quickly and I started feeling serious hypo, too much pressure in the brain. I started eating every two hours to stop that. After one month, it stopped to give that kind of hypo feeling, But sugar remained high, because I had no medicine to lower sugar. I continued this way another three months having worse feeling of high sugar and blood pressure variations. One day I ate a little white rice and I started feeling serious hypo. Sugar came down to 8 from 15 in one hour (quick speed). After that, even if I ate a little bread, I was feeling hypo. Family physician, hospital emergencies could not suggest any thing what should I do. When I felt this hypo, I started to eat chicken though sugar is not really low) . After one more month of doing like this, sugar came down 8 to 11 without medicine and stabilized. Still then no doctor gave any medication to lower sugar. I cannot live by eating meat and little vegetable only. I tried to add more carbs, sugar was going high again. I almost stopped carb, still it going too high. A kind emergency guy helped me to find an endocrinologist But did not give any medication but told that, she will give me ACTOS. When sugar went to 20 mmol level, I went to her, she gave me me ACTOS. But ACTOS needs a month to lower sugar. I requested her to give me INSULIN because, I cannot survive a month with sugar constantly on 20 mmol. From then I improved, sugar is most time is under 7 , very rare time it goes to 9 after eating. Sugar is under control but, I feel some symptoms most of the time, some times, body burns after eating(Not in the stomach). I feel shakiness after eating, depression etc Probably adrenaline has been harmed and it is malfunctioning. Can any body suggest me for further improvement?
so nice, well not really, but comforting to hear there are other stories like this out there. I am on the athletic side, late thirties, no family history, but developed every single symptom of begin diabetic, even though my Doctors would not label me that. It was really bad and still is after eating the wrong meal, all the things mentioned before, shakiness, panic, fear, intense hunger pangs, frequent urination, dry lips, even could taste those ketoids ( excuse my spelling ) i would suck down an orange or sweets thirty minutes after eating and just 'snapped out of it' . I even went in with a blood sugar reading of 52 and they still just told me it was in my head. I really hate the system here in the states at times. Thanks for all your posts they do help a lot of people out there, still looking for answers, had to quit drinking all alcohol, coffee, and just test my food as I go and pray for the best, but if you can find a pattern you can overcome it and it does get easier I promise
Some people are just genetically prone to sugar lows, i am, both my parents and me and my bro are susceptible it, however my bro has diabetes, there is diabetes on both sides of the family but mainly just with the males but i think anyone with diabetes in their genetics can still be susceptible to sugar lows more so than other people, i also have PCOS from my mum side of the family so that doesn't help and with hormone conditions your even more prone to it, i'm not awake at all any day of the week if i don't get some cofffee and a bit of sugar, but bananas seems to sometimes make me a bit shaky because it's high in sugar so i try not to eat them much. I do not have blood pressure because i had a standard test for that when i moved back to england, my, my bro and parents get real cranky though if we are having a sugar low, it just happens to some families.