# What do you binge on to correct low lows?

**URL:** <https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/what-do-you-binge-on-to-correct-low-lows/4146>\
**Category:** Treatment\
**Tags:** hypoglycemia, low-bg\
**Created:** [June 3, 2018, 9:30pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/what-do-you-binge-on-to-correct-low-lows/4146 "2018-06-03T21:30:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Beacher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a6a055/32.png) [@Beacher](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Beacher)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 1:31pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/what-do-you-binge-on-to-correct-low-lows/4146/15 "2018-06-04T13:31:13Z")

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> [@Nickyghaleb](#):
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> At about a 35, I get the WORST taste in my mouth, and it feels like it goes down my throat. It tastes like burnt onions. Every time. It makes me NOT want to correct because I can’t stand the taste, and it can go on for an HOUR once it starts. Does anyone else experience this? It’s actually metallic tasting, and there’s numbness

Yes, me too. Not sure about the onions, but definitely metallic, almost bitter. Sometimes I’ve put a glucose tab or cookie in my mouth and had to quickly double-check the packaging to make sure I haven’t accidentally ingested poison. @bkh [recently described the same thing](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/how-do-hypoglycemia-and-hyperglycemia-feel/1187/40). I don’t have a titanium plate.

> [@Nickyghaleb](#):
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> It used to be my favorite part of diabetes. But I just couldn’t do it anymore because I couldn’t control the rebound… because I couldn’t control myself.

This was also my problem for years and years and years and years. Low = gorge. It was like the brain sent out just one command to all my body’s cells: EAT SWEET THINGS. Then I discovered it really only took two glucose tabs. Or maybe only even one. Not four like recommended; that was way too much. Two tabs, wait a bit, and it was all over.

Once I got my CGM, of course, I rarely got that eat-everything low in the first place. Problem solved.

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