So last night I worked out…nothing crazy…just some upper body exercises 30 mins in duration. I did eat 90 mins before hand, scrambled eggs and a wrap. I then went to take a shower and do some chores which took about 60 mins. At this point I went to my kitchen to make dinner.I was planning on having a decent amount of carbs in the meal so I decided to pop in two Fenuplex caps. I almost always take Fenuplex during a carb meal but I figured I would follow the bottles direction to take it before the meal(besides I figured I would be eating in 15 mins time) Bad mistake
I would say within 3 mins I started to get this weird tingling sensation on my skin(pins and needles) and I felt a little dizzy. I knew something was up and I decided to eat something right away(I just took a wrap laying around and ate it to get something in my stomach quick. That didn’t work…the symptoms kept progressing. It was a classic hypoglycemic type of reaction(Confusion, nervous, shaking) I then drank some iced tea to see if that would bring me back a bit more. It sort of did but the symptoms would go in and out. I then decided just to puke up with the hope that I would get the Fenuplex caps out of my stomach. Amazing I ended up puking them both out back. They were both broken(obviously but I was amazed how little of them were dissolved …It was as if they were 90+% in tack)
I felt a little better but then the symptoms came back to the point where I am now thinking(Alright do I drive to the hospital or call 911 because I live alone and if something happens no one will know about it for 24 hours). I actually got to the point of putting my coat on and getting my wallet keys and everything…I was pretty scared this wasn’t going away. Luckily at the last min I realized I had a large bottle of coca-cola and decided to drink some of that to see if that can get my levels back to normal. It started to work…very slowly and over the next 30 min i progressively got better.
It seems as if I am not the only person with a reaction to Fenuplex. It seems in both cases the Fenuplex caused a hypoglycemic reaction. In my case it was a huge one…I guess the obvious mistake here was taking it on a empty stomach after working out but I was shocked how fast it kicked in. Im thinking their should definitely be some kind of new warnings/directions put on the bottle. I think taking it before meals is a bit of a risky situation if one’s glucose levels are low to begin with…