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<blockquote data-quote="Grant_Vicat" data-source="post: 1784952" data-attributes="member: 388932"><p>Hi [USER=173606]@glenk[/USER] Here is a description I wrote in 2009:</p><p>I have a whole battery of warning signs when I am low, sugar-wise. The most obvious is sudden excessive yawning. Many times in public I have been tempted to ask total strangers whether they are diabetic, simply because they yawn incessantly. Is this because the brain thinks it needs bucketfuls of Oxygen to create unattainable energy? I can also feel unnaturally depressed. Red stars can dance within my eyes and if I walk into a darker area, what look like giant sunflower heads blot out my vision. Tingling affects all my mouth my hands shake, and I have a raging headache. I have often been alerted to low readings because I am unable to make decisions. Ironically this is often at lunchtime, in a food shop, when I am trying to work out what adds up to 60g of Carbohydrate.</p><p></p><p>The red stars would usually appear at night time, but not always. The "sunflowers" would appear when I walked from bright light to shade, such as a porch or straight indoors, but in either case I knew I was seriously close to passing out. Throughout my working life with diabetes I would aim for a bottle of Lucozade in any place I would be likely to work. Perhaps the most unusual was under the upright piano keyboard for any hypo I experienced while playing for Assembly at school. I needed this on several occasions, let alone in the classrooms! I wouldn't find the stars or auras disappearing until I had had some form of glucose, and even then it could take a considerable time. I agree with posters above who say you should act immediately, not experiment!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grant_Vicat, post: 1784952, member: 388932"] Hi [USER=173606]@glenk[/USER] Here is a description I wrote in 2009: I have a whole battery of warning signs when I am low, sugar-wise. The most obvious is sudden excessive yawning. Many times in public I have been tempted to ask total strangers whether they are diabetic, simply because they yawn incessantly. Is this because the brain thinks it needs bucketfuls of Oxygen to create unattainable energy? I can also feel unnaturally depressed. Red stars can dance within my eyes and if I walk into a darker area, what look like giant sunflower heads blot out my vision. Tingling affects all my mouth my hands shake, and I have a raging headache. I have often been alerted to low readings because I am unable to make decisions. Ironically this is often at lunchtime, in a food shop, when I am trying to work out what adds up to 60g of Carbohydrate. The red stars would usually appear at night time, but not always. The "sunflowers" would appear when I walked from bright light to shade, such as a porch or straight indoors, but in either case I knew I was seriously close to passing out. Throughout my working life with diabetes I would aim for a bottle of Lucozade in any place I would be likely to work. Perhaps the most unusual was under the upright piano keyboard for any hypo I experienced while playing for Assembly at school. I needed this on several occasions, let alone in the classrooms! I wouldn't find the stars or auras disappearing until I had had some form of glucose, and even then it could take a considerable time. I agree with posters above who say you should act immediately, not experiment! [/QUOTE]
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