# Tanking (low) while shopping **URL:** \ **Category:** Treatment\ **Tags:** hypoglycemia, low-bg\ **Created:** [February 10, 2019, 5:05pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/tanking-low-while-shopping/6541 "2019-02-10T17:05:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![Nickyghaleb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Nickyghaleb](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Nickyghaleb)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2019, 3:58pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/tanking-low-while-shopping/6541/5 "2019-02-11T15:58:33Z")
> [@Never had a Strategy Before with Lows: Today I closed my Eyes](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/never-had-a-strategy-before-with-lows-today-i-closed-my-eyes/6331/90): > > With my worst store tank happening during Back to School shopping (which is essentially the worst riddle+Where’s Waldo+roller derby against other frantic moms who need Blue Folders with NO TABS bc the teachers are that specific so everyone in the county needs the same flippin’ color folder and there are never enough), I think the increased brain load theory makes sense. I think I’ve read that your brain uses 60% of your carbs/sugar/whatever, but I’m sure someone will clarify that if I’m wrong. 😀😀 Yes, yup, and absolutely. I hate me some back to school shopping. For me, that kind of hunt is a _huge_ trigger… with the bright lights, the picked through bins, and the crying baby… And like you said, all a backdrop to some ridiculous detail like the color of the tab or if there’s a sleeve inside. I can crash in any store. I think part of it, at least for me, is the distraction of the activity. If I’m walking down the street and start feeling low, I pop a glucose tablet in my mouth. If I’m in the middle of an aisle with a partial list of dinner ingredients that I’m afraid of forgetting, and there’s one item of that list on either end of the aisle in which I stand, I’ve got competing demands. All it takes is that distraction, and, undetected, I just slip further down the drain. It can’t be the lights though… that’s an element, but I can eliminate it as a possible cause. I can do the exact same thing shopping online. 🙄 --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/tanking-low-while-shopping/6541)._