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Shazza

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Hi

Son is 11 with T1 we are still at the testing loads stage yesterday I asked if he was ok, he said yes but I said test anyway, he was 3.8 after testing he said he has 'the usual chest pain he gets with hypo' he,d never mentioned this before and I havent read anything on here about it .... is this normal?

Thanks
 
I have never heard this before or suffered from chest pain, while of recovering for a hypo? Guessing it goes away? I would ask for medical advice, chest pain is normally a 999 call, I would ask when you next visit the hospital clinic or GP Surgery, untill then, if any worse for doesn't fade, I would get medical advice stright away. Hypo warning signs can be different in many people, I normally had a bad headache afterwards.
 
Hi Shazza,
I would definately ask at his hospital appointment, and get it sorted out straight away, could be something or nothing, but always better to air on the side of caution. I'll be thinking of you both on Wed, let us know how he gets on,
Take care,
Suzi x
 
Hi shazza.
Is it real pain as in it hurts ? Could it be a pounding Heart, that is a symptom of hypoglycaemia.

As the others said, never heard of actual pain. Glad you will be getting it checked out. It is possible it is not Diabetes related at all.
 
Hi Shazza,

I would get this checked out as soon as possible. I have never had chest pains with a hypo, but they can cause anxiety and panic. Perhaps it may be that he is having a panic attack, with the body going hypo it can cause all sorts of physical and emotional responses, one being panic!

Best to get a check-up, it will reassure the both of you.

Regards

Nigel
 
Thanks I asked him more about it this morning and he says its not actually sore but more like a fluttering weird feeling :? I will ask on Weds thanks for replys
 
I asked about this when at the clinic this morning, his DN and consultant did give each other a worried glance when I mentioned he gets a fluttery feeling in chest, however they told me everyone feels different hypo symptoms and as long as the feeling disappears when hypo is treated, which it does. They have told me to check his pulse when he hypos again, still slightly worried :?
 
Hi Shazza,

It is obvious that you still have some concerns here, as any parent would. Take your lad along to his GP and insist that you want him to be investigated regarding his chest pain, don't take no for a answer!

Regards

Nigel
 
Hi Shazza,

Has your son been screened for thyroid problems as I have a friend with this and she often gets flutterings in her chest. Her consultant has assured her it is quite common.

This may or may not be the answer but it was just a thought on my part.

I hope you get to the bottom of this soon as it must be a very worrying time for you.

Catherine.
 
Hi Catherine, yes he has been tested and is showing signs of having an underactive thyroid, another blood sample was taken today and its expected that he will start taking a thyroxine tablet, hopefully that will explain the feeling in chest, will keep and eye on him .. well both as I,m paranoid and thanks for the advice

xx
 
Hi Shazza,

A quick note to say I too have the 'fluttering' heart sensation with low blood sugar. It feels like my heart is pounding and racing all at the same time sometimes. Even after 37 years of type 1 diabetes it took me a while to make the connection. I have to say as well that this experience only really started when I transferred on to pump treatment. previously on the pen I had not really experience it regularly.

Also this sensation is predominantly with night time hypos and low bloods. Not that it is of any reassurance because believe me its not a pleasant thing to awaken with the cold sweat and fuzzy head of an oncoming hypo and have a racing heart going on too, but your son is not alone in this!!

In my experience of knowing a fair few diabetics over the years, young, old, types 1 and 2, well controlled and otherwise and in some instances, now dead because of it, whilst there are many similar experiences there is also an alarming number of unique ones that because of the uniqueness doctors often dismiss as unconnected. I do not appear to have suffered adversely for my fluttering heart but of course perfect control means it doesn't happen!!

In a perfect world eh?. lol!!

Roo.
 
The 'fluttering' feeling can be the release of cortisol into the blood stream. This is a natural response by the body to stimulate the liver to release glucose into the blood stream because of the low blood sugars.
 
sugarless sue said:
The 'fluttering' feeling can be the release of cortisol into the blood stream. This is a natural response by the body to stimulate the liver to release glucose into the blood stream because of the low blood sugars.
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Does the release of glucose happen quickly after this stimulus? And does it release enough to rectify the problem or just a fixed and limited amount? Could it release more if it needed to in the same hypo? Would the body send a second stimulus to achieve this?

I've often wondered about this. Occasionally, night hypos have left me semi-awake and vaguely aware of what is happening but unable to communicate. In the aftermath I wonder how long it would take for my body to fix the problem with it's own glucose stores, if it can all.

I hope to never find out in person but I do wonder sometimes......

roo
 
Firstly I am not a type one.

I think it all depends on YOUR liver response. Someone being on insulin it is obviously going to depend on how much the injected insulin is overcoming the 'dumped' glucose if any.

I hope that a more experienced type one will come along with a better explanation.
 
roo

If I understand you right, when the liver decides to dump it will dump all it's store into the system, this is because a hormone (glucogen) same as the hypo kit, tells it to... But saying this because it takes a long time for the pancreas beta cells to send the the hormone to the liver to dump it's store. the slowness of this responce is due to the diabetes faffing up the circuit..

How long it take this process to happen can be quite a long time, and of cause any active insulin you have in your body will continual to lower your BG,

The lower and longer you are hypo the more awful you feel when your BG returns to normal, and the longer the recovery time is..

This is a kind of back-up system we have, but can't be relied on to do back up though, as your store can be effected by a previous hypo/s so not enough there, and also drugs like alcohol prevents the store being maintained, then theres the possiblity that you may not have the necessary bit to create the response..

Hopefully I haven't confused you too much
 
No confusion, thank you. I now have key words and phraseology to do some more research.

I have spent many years getting it right with the control of my diabetes and explored many other, non medical things which profess to help. I'm more interested these days in the nitty gritty physiological aspects of the body in connection with the type 1 diabetes and how they might be bettered or assisted.

I have plenty of theories but not being in a key medical environment they are pretty much lost on all except my diabetic nurse who does take on board some of my less wild ideas!

Thanks for the info.

roo.
 
Hi there everyone,

well i have had the same experience but it's more pain....like heartburn. and i know it's not heartburn because i get it when i am getting close to Ketoacidocis. which is quite often because i am a very stupid young adult.

anyways, i was suprised to find out that others have had this sympton when they are Hypo. does it happen every time or just occasionally?

City Horse
 
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