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Anxiety or low blood sugar?

So I know I have been dealing with my anxiety and panic attacks as well as I can unitl i finally go to the docs in a few weeks, but this morning was weird. I ate only a few slices of bacon and had a cup of water (i know not the best combo lol) and about 20 mins later i was sitting on the couch and became all nervous and jittery and then had a racing heart. It didnt feel like one of my normal attacks so then that feeling put me into full blown panic attack.  I threw up a few time and was crying and almost wanted to go to the ER, but my mom and fiance talked me down saying it was prolly just a lot of stress and stuff.  My mom gave me half a nerve pill to take and it did chill me out.  Then right after I ate some dinner I got a hot flash and started to get nervous and jittery again which scared me. I have kinda been under a lot of stress the past few days, and not really eating normally, and I dont have problems with sleeping but have been going to bed fairly late (like 1-1:30am) and having to get up around 8 or 9 with my daughter. So of course like a hypochondriac I am I come on here to google "nervous and jittery" and I see all these things pop up about hypoglycemia and what not.  I'm eating a few pieces of candy just in case i need to get my sugar up but I;m still worried. I dont understand how all of a sudden this can happen or if its serious enough to go to the ER or something.  I guess with my anxiety I work myself up and make thing even more worse then they really are. I was just wondering if anybody experiances what I have and what I can do in the meantime.
thanks!
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Thank you so much for your replies, kinda brought me at ease.  I made sure I ate more in the morning yesterday and drank some apple juice and put a little bit of sugar in my tea, and then ate normally the rest of the day and I felt fine.  Just the normal anxious feeling that sometimes wont go away, but until I go to the docs next month Im learning to live with it to where it doesnt effect me doing things.  Today, I;m feeling a little jittery and Im not really hungry so I'm going to do my best to get my protien in. (I'm not really into breakfast foods that much I would rather eat a chicken in the morning lol)
Thank you so much, both of you!
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   Way back when I was diagnosed with hypoglycemia before I was diagnosed with anything else. What happens basically is your body puts out too much insulin or too soon and your blood sugar gets low. The trick is to eat the right kind of carbs (you know like Jenny Craig?) No white food, (white bread, white flour, sugar, corn syrup, potatoes, white rice). They say it's metabolized like sugar.
   For about a year I've been eating about 6 times a day a combo of good carbs and protein (raisins and nuts, apples and triscuits) and with all the other problems I've had at least that has been resolved. I always described that feeling like your skin wants to jump off your body and run away. I've also been told that the best thing to do is to drink a glass of orange juice when you have that feeling. I've never had to go to the hospital with it. It always went away when I ate something.
   I've also come to the conclusion that for us (people with anxiety) the best thing we can do is to eat healthy. It gives us something tangible to do to help ourselves fight the monster. I'm not a doc, just my opinion. Good luck!! Love..
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I am no doctor but i do feel the same exact way, for me it makes me feel as if i haven't ate in a long time and my sugar is low but i was tested at the ER 2 weeks ago and my sugar level was 110 which they said was normal, for me i associate it to my anxiety but i'm not exactly sure if this is a symptom of anxiety as this happens to me more than once a day. Hopefully someone else on here can give us both some insight to this awful feeling. God Bless
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