Shakiness / raging hunger following sudden stress?
I'm not talking about just stress eating, I mean you are faced with an unexpected sudden stress that would cause an adrenaline release, rapid heart rate and you are afraid....then when you "come down" you are shaking and insanely hungry.
We were heading home just now, and it looked like it was going to storm. Well, in all my years, and we get some bad storms, I have never gotten caught in such a bad storm, with frequent grounding lightening, blinding rain, then big hail, and flash flooding. I was minutes from home with the kids in the van. I couldn't see enough to drive. So I pulled onto a side street. Many other people were pulling over. It hailed like I have never seen for about 10 mins, and I was worrying the hail would start coming down large enough to be really dangerous even though we were in the car. It switched back to rain, so I tried to drive again, but the flooding, wow it really does happen within seconds. People in smaller cars were unable to drive. I was 2 blocks from home, and trying to get 2 blocks over. I was really scared as we are near waterways that we were going to get a flash flood and get caught in it. At this point the side streets had flooded. They were underwater. With in a minute or so, they went from being a safe place to pull over to worse that the main road which was more elevated. I did make it home and we sat in the car until the rain lightened up enough to go in.
And within about 5 minutes of getting in I was shaking, and SO HUNGRY. I just ate 2, yes 2 PB & J sandwiches, a banana and a granola bar. I felt like I needed to eat sugar. Now I've heard that there is a reason behind this, that drop in blood sugar after stress. But I didn't think I was that stressed driving home and I've never had it happen before. It was a really weird feeling!!
Anyone ever have this happen?
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