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Hey Cath.  I never had blood sugar issues of any kind before surgery but since having surgery I do suffer from low blood sugar.  I worked with my nut to figure it out after I kept showing up low on my blood work.  I got a testing kit, testing my suger 1st thing in the a.m., before bed, & 1 hour after eating, and kept a food diary.  Sure enough it showed me having low blood sugar issues.  When mine drops I do get dizzy, shakey, can get nauseous if I don't catch it fast enough, clammy, sweaty, etc.  Sometimes this happens to a reaction to food that might spike my sugars too high (cereal gets me every time) sometimes it happens if I go too long between meals or snacks.  When I feel it going on I try to grap a quick snack to help, my nut. suggested proteins so I either get some peanut butter (sometimes on crackers, sometimes by the spoonful), cheese, nuts, that kind of thing.  You may want to go ahead and get a tester, keep a food diary for a few days and see what happens, then you can bring that info with you to your dr. appt.  In order to keep mine regulated I have to eat 3 meals a day & usually 2 small snacks. 

THANK YOU ALL!!!!!   I knew I could count on you guys to give me some ideas. I have never been diabetic, so I did not even know that you could buy a monitor so inexpensively. I will look into getting one this weekend so I can monitor it and keep a food diary and have that information for my doctor when I go next month. That way,  I will  have some data to give her to help her to figure out what is going on with me.  Tootles... I am off to work now, BLAHHHH!!!!!!! Cath

Gosh!  Am I the only health care provider in the bunch?  Hmmmm.  Lemme put on my medic hat. Ok...while you've gotten some good "guesses" at what might be your problem, & they may be correct... GO TO YOUR NEAREST FAMILY PHYSICIAN IMMEDIATELY!!!  And have someone drive you until you are seen & CLEARED to drive by a physician. Common sense should kick in, my darlings.  Do any of you really want to be behind the wheel of a 3,000 lb projectile & lose consciousness?  Ummm....NOOOOOO!  You run the risk of harming yourself & many others around you.  And don't think for one minute that you won't be held accountable by saying, "Gee, I just FELT like I was gonna faint, but I didn't think I really would."  So, for safety sake, DO NOT DRIVE until you are cleared medically. Another thing...why wait until next week, next month, next whenever???  It is NEVER normal for any of us to be feeling the way you described, Cath...those are signs & symptoms of something not right.  If it turns out to be diabetes issues, or blood pressure, or whatever, it is treatable but it can't be treated PROPERLY unless you see a doctor.  I realize I am sounding very harsh.  I truly don't mean to.  If anything, I'm worried that you would put off till later to see a doc.  What if it was one of your kids?  Would you make them wait?  Doubt it!!!!  And what if you DID lose consciousness...are they old enough to know how to call 9-1-1?  AND would you want to scare the he[[ out of them like that??  Don't think so. Come on people...wake up! This isn't a hang nail.  You don't REALLY want me to list all the possibilities of what could happen & go wrong.  YOU all know your bodies better than anyone so you know when something is not right.  So unless you're a Fainting Goat in human clothes, get your butt to the doctor ASAP!  I'm not kidding.  If you have to work around machinery or be left alone until you can see a doctor, DON'T.  We don't want anything bad to happen to you & YOU don't want to be the cause of harming others. This is all said to you with nothing but love in my heart.  Besides, you asked!