Shaky Feeling

[Purist]

Why would I start feeling shaky a few hours after eating a baked potato, I have eaten them in the past with no problem but occasionally when I eat baked potato a few hours later I feel a bit shaky and weird. I'm guessing its a blood sugar thing? Does anyone else have this? why would it not happen every time I ate a baked potato rather than just sometimes?

[Sqad]

No idea.

Unless of course a baked potato is your only food for a main meal, if you are a diabetic, then the symptoms are due to hypoglycaemia (low blood sugar)

[Purist]

I have been tested for Diabetes a few times, results have always been normal. It was my main meal, perhaps I needed to add some protein to it.

[Buenchico]

If you'd have said 'about an hour after eating', rather than 'a few hours later', I'd have assumed that you were referring to postprandial hypotension. (I know not to check my blood pressure about an hour after eating, as it can be misleadingly low):
https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/eating-can-cause-low-blood-pressure

[Sqad]

Perhaps Purist....perhaps.

[237SJ]

Maybe the baked potato gives your blood sugar a spike and when the levels then drop again you get the shaky feeling. Maybe it depends on what you ate before you ate the potato. I get the shakes sometimes after eating very sweet foods.

[ummmm]

Are you eating normally otherwise?

[nailit]

//I get the shakes sometimes after eating very sweet foods//
I get the shakes after imbibing huge amounts of alcohol....must be the sugar content!!
;-)

[pastafreak]

Could it be reactive hypoglycemia...which can occur after a high carbohydrate meal. It's happened to me, and I've never tested positive for diabetes...or pre diabetes. When I was younger, I often had hypoglycemia if I'd not eaten.

[237SJ]

^ Wouldn't it be hyper after a high carb meal?

[retrocop]

Not sure about the baked potato. I have heard about the 'Chippy Chippy Shakes' though. :-)

[Patsy33]

I get like that sometimes. I agree with what Pastafreak said.
Just wondering if you are taking antidepressants, as some can mess with sugar levels.

[Purist]

I used to get it more if I ate anything sugary, but I avoid that sort of food now, I still feel ill now, tired and a bit shaky. maybe I should cut down on the carbs?

I don't take any antidepressants

[ummmm]

Is your blood pressure normal?

[joko]

are you checking the spuds for green bits? or cutting green bits off? if a potato has ANY green bits it should be chucked. cutting it off doesnt changes the fact it is bad - look into solanine poisoning.
im not saying you have that, but worth mentioning

[Purist]

blood pressure was normal, no there were no green bits on it, I am feeling better this morning, I can only assume maybe it was a reactive hypoglycemic reaction as I don't eat much usually and did have quite a physical day yesterday.

[ummmm]

Do you drink alcohol?

I've more or less stopped drinking and I get shaky. I also crave sweet foods.

[pastafreak]

Carby foods convert to sugar in your bloodstream. Just a thought...
As for green potatoes, as far as I know you'd have to eat a lot of them to get a reaction.

[ummmm]

Pasta....you're right. Yo'd have to eat a bag of green spuds to get a reaction. Alan Titchmarsh told me that, through the TV.

[pastafreak]

Good old Alan.. .super trustworthy. ;)

[joko]

"In the 1970s, solanine poisoning affected 78 schoolboys in Britain. Due to immediate and effective treatments, no one died."

I assume they didnt all eat a whole bag of green spuds, so it can happen with smaller amounts.

it takes a lot of it to make you properly ill, or kill you, but small amounts may be able to make someone just feel 'off-colour', especially if other circumstances were right