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No symptoms for hypo!!!

Rhianne_Downton96

Rhianne_Downton96

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
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Insulin
Recently I've only had 3 hypos in the space of 5 days.. But I'm getting no symptoms, I only find out as I might be going to bed or before meals and I've dropped down to 3.0 where as k will be shaking or sweating and k will check and I'm at a perfect reading like 5.1 or 4.7 or something... Weird!!

Thankyou! ️
 
Rhianne_Downton96 said:
Recently I've only had 3 hypos in the space of 5 days.. But I'm getting no symptoms, I only find out as I might be going to bed or before meals and I've dropped down to 3.0 where as k will be shaking or sweating and k will check and I'm at a perfect reading like 5.1 or 4.7 or something... Weird!!

Thankyou! ️
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How many units do you take?
 
Rhianne_Downton96 said:
Depends what I eat but my average is 3-4 units. Only take 14units of lantus as I am newly diagnosed! X
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Try to get good bg targets before eating food like 6-7mmol and not 4-5mmol and allow for a bg rise to 8.5mmol 2.5hrs later which should then fall back to 5-7mmol at the 4hr mark. If you are using a carb ratio, adjust it and keep bg testing every 2-3hrs to see if you need to adjust a bit more. Also, the easiest way to get carb ratios correct is by keeping the carb amount the same for each meal. That will help in the short term to avoid the hypo feeling.
The other way would be to not eat food but inject the basal and bg test to find out how well it controls bg levels on a background level but as you are newly diagnosed, try to adjust the bolus a bit more through bg testing and revert back to the doctor or dsn to get a bit more guidance.
 
Ok but you are still getting hypo symptoms as you are getting the shakes and sweats when at say 3.0 m/mmol ? this is important, getting no hypo symptoms is when you are at 3.0 and not feeling it at all. Generally you wont get symptoms until you are low, so then treat, test and monitor as usual.

You should speak to your DSN about your hypos to let them know you are having them as your doses will need adjusting ;)
 
Rhianne_Downton96 said:
Recently I've only had 3 hypos in the space of 5 days.. But I'm getting no symptoms, I only find out as I might be going to bed or before meals and I've dropped down to 3.0 where as k will be shaking or sweating and k will check and I'm at a perfect reading like 5.1 or 4.7 or something... Weird!!

Thankyou! ️
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Hi,

No symptoma at all...? You may have just missed the signs.. There are documented suble clues.
To be fair I don't always get the sweat/shakes. (That happens during excersise/prolonged excertion.)
What I do get round 3.5-4.5 is blurred vision. A shimmer or haze (sometimes flashes of light.) on the lower eyeline.. A little light sensitivity & colour blindness. My mind freezes like walking into a room & forgetting why. The egg timer is on the computer screen. Lol That sort of thing.. But that's just my personal flag markers..

See your nurse/doc..
 
iHs said:
Try to get good bg targets before eating food like 6-7mmol and not 4-5mmol and allow for a bg rise to 8.5mmol 2.5hrs later which should then fall back to 5-7mmol at the 4hr mark.
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Hello,
Is this suggestion a "temporary measure" to help increase hypo awareness..?
 
Do speak to your doctor if you're at all concerned. You don't want to go low and not notice. You could increase your blood tests if you're worried about this.

As you're newly diagnosed, you may be in the honeymoon period where your body still makes some of its on insulin, which could be causing lows.

But as Jaylee says, hypo symptoms can vary a lot. The sweaty, shaky hypos are just one way your body reacts (I tend to get those when I'm dropping quickly). I also get tingly lips, blurred vision that makes it harder to focus, 'blobs' in the eyes like you see when you come indoors from bright sunshine, tiredness for no reason, hunger, weakness, and a kind of brain slowdown. I may get one or any combination of those, depending on the hypo.

If in doubt, treat then test. Better to have a little glucose when you don't need it than get hit by a fierce hypo. That's what my consultant told me, and I've always followed that.
 
Thankyou everyone for your replys..

Seeing my DN on Friday so got a lot of questions to ask.
It's quite frightening really. I would just be getting ready for bed or whatever and test it before and it's low (3.0) and I feel absolutely fine. I only start getting symptoms once I see the number.
Yesterday I went down to 2.0 and I felt a bit airy but ok I got my boyfriend to check and he said what it was then I went into a complete panic attack, it was an emotional roller coaster- very frightening. My boyfriend sorted me out with glucose tab which he said at one point I refused, I git tingly lips and started laughing then crying it was awful!!

I just keep getting told at the moment everything is just trial and error! X
 
It is harder to spot and deal with hypos early on in diagnosis. After all. It's not something you're used to at all. I had hypos where I was the last to notice too. You will get more familiar with the early signs.

It's good you're seeing your team. It could be that your insulin needs a tiny adjustment so you don't have too many hypos. I find Lucozade a good, quick hypo treatment, especially at night when any hypo always seems scarier.
 
Rhianne_Downton96 said:
Thankyou everyone for your replys..

Seeing my DN on Friday so got a lot of questions to ask.
It's quite frightening really. I would just be getting ready for bed or whatever and test it before and it's low (3.0) and I feel absolutely fine. I only start getting symptoms once I see the number.
Yesterday I went down to 2.0 and I felt a bit airy but ok I got my boyfriend to check and he said what it was then I went into a complete panic attack, it was an emotional roller coaster- very frightening. My boyfriend sorted me out with glucose tab which he said at one point I refused, I git tingly lips and started laughing then crying it was awful!!

I just keep getting told at the moment everything is just trial and error! X
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Somthing like that happened the other week with my T1 bass player.. He went low. I passed him something from my bag & he just put it on the side.. :banghead: (I didn't want to waste time searching his house.) I had to coerce him into eating it. Far be it from me to tell him he was low. ;)
Lol I was bang on guessing his BS level though when I got him to test! :cool:

My approach is calm & passive..
I go on auto pilot. I take it for granted others have difficulty taking it in... :D
 
I was like this a few months after being diagnosed which as been just over a year,
In the end they dropped my back drop of lantus bit by bit,i went through the honeymoon phase where i was taken of all my insulin altogether as it was causing to many hypos and my body got so used to them it stopped showing me signs to.
Ive only been back on insulin now a couple of weeks and am back to having hypos again.
but forum group really helped and talking to your dsn will too. xx
 
Rhianne_Downton96 said:
Thankyou everyone for your replys..

Seeing my DN on Friday so got a lot of questions to ask.
It's quite frightening really. I would just be getting ready for bed or whatever and test it before and it's low (3.0) and I feel absolutely fine. I only start getting symptoms once I see the number.
Yesterday I went down to 2.0 and I felt a bit airy but ok I got my boyfriend to check and he said what it was then I went into a complete panic attack, it was an emotional roller coaster- very frightening. My boyfriend sorted me out with glucose tab which he said at one point I refused, I git tingly lips and started laughing then crying it was awful!!

I just keep getting told at the moment everything is just trial and error! X
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Rhianne_Downton96 said:
Thankyou everyone for your replys..

Seeing my DN on Friday so got a lot of questions to ask.
It's quite frightening really. I would just be getting ready for bed or whatever and test it before and it's low (3.0) and I feel absolutely fine. I only start getting symptoms once I see the number.
Yesterday I went down to 2.0 and I felt a bit airy but ok I got my boyfriend to check and he said what it was then I went into a complete panic attack, it was an emotional roller coaster- very frightening. My boyfriend sorted me out with glucose tab which he said at one point I refused, I git tingly lips and started laughing then crying it was awful!!

I just keep getting told at the moment everything is just trial and error! X
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As a newbie I thought I was sometimes hypo , by just seeing the number 3.8 and panic and stuff myself ! While I was actually feeling normal. Now just eating a little snack to rise my bg. Getting more relax with low readings, think and act
 
I'm a newly diagnosed t2 and on metformin twice daily I had a few lows right at the start and I didn't recognize them but now I do when I get into the low 4's I start to feel really sick and one thing I have noticed is that if I don't act on it then it drops really fast then when I get into the low 3's which I have been a few times its as though I carnt think straight and I feel like I'm standing in front of the fire at first as I said I didn't see these symptoms people say that they get really hungry when there low but I'm never hungry so I think its just finding your own warning signs hope you get on ok good luck xxx
 
You might need to eat a bit more carbs or lower your insulin. Sometimes there is a knock on effect from your previous injection. Your Diabetic Nurse will help you. It happens to us all. It is only 3 years ago I could feel my sugar level being low after my Diabetic Consultant told me to let my BMs run a little higher because I had no threshold. Now I can tell and have a dextrose tablet. My nickname was the Hypo Queen.
 
Rhianne_Downton96 said:
Recently I've only had 3 hypos in the space of 5 days.. But I'm getting no symptoms, I only find out as I might be going to bed or before meals and I've dropped down to 3.0 where as k will be shaking or sweating and k will check and I'm at a perfect reading like 5.1 or 4.7 or something... Weird!!

Thankyou! ️
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Remember the test strips, even the most accurate ones that keep to the new EU regs that come into force next year, all say they could be out by, i think, 10%. I have two machines and two types of test strip, so i sometimes check a low or high with another test, and it is surprising how different they can be, with the same blood. Hoverer, assuming your tests were correct, you may not yet be used to being aware, in an intricate way, of how you feel - it is unfortunately necessary to learn this as a Type one, as hypo signs can be very varied in just one person, they can be easy to notice or very subtle, and can vary over time also. I remember after diagnosis about 36 years ago i had some trouble, so the hypo would go further than it would now (i.e. into the laughing/crying mode, which is one of the later hypo symptoms, or strange behaviour you may hardly be aware of). If you document your symptoms carefully, thinking back over the previous 30 minutes, you will soon see that there were much earlier subtle signs, often just all sorts of hardly noticeable fleeting feelings, eg. a fleeting feeling you are slightly detached, etc etc which signal it is best to have a few glucose before you test.
 
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