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Normal calcium levels should be between 2.2 to 2.4. From experience I believe the torniquet can increase the calcium in the sample by up to 0.2 of a point. A major symptom of low calcium is tetany, other wise known as pins and needles ( but more intense). Also if you tap your facial nerve which...

I have a problem with low calcium, I don't absorb or store it naturally. When they are taking blood to check it they are not supposed to use a torniquet because this artificially increases the calcium in the sample. So I find it entirely plausible that squeezing out your blood sample from too...

I have been as low as 1.0 several times, and was out of my mind every time. I needed to be given the glucagon injection by my mother each time. Some of them where very close calls, it was only when my dog went for help that my family realised something was wrong. My dog isn't a trained hypo...

Re: Would you prefer to be on insulin injections or on a pum I had a pump in 2009. Had a hypo while I was asleep, didn't wake up and was still being pumped with novorapid. I was not expected to survive, I was in a coma and on life support for three weeks. My brain swelled so much it resulted...

Reading your post makes me feel very fortunate. I receive 300 ( and use them all) blood strips per month and never had a problem increasing them from 200.

Re: Type 1 and want to lose some weight and tone up! If you are going to try Lucozade- which is what I use along with milk for most of my hypos, I carry a bottle of Lucozade energy in my handbag- do not go for Lucozade sport. It takes far too long to work and you need to drink three times as...

Hi there, I have had the Novopen Echo for five days now, I have a really bad short term memory problem following a hypo that landed me on life support so I was forever asking myself have I taken my insulin? On many occasion if I hadn't put it away fast enough I would get double doses and that...

I did test myself about 45 minutes afterwards- I know I should have waited longer but didn't. I had jumped from 6.5 to 14.9 The test sample was probably less than 1 ml, ( I don't know how 1 ml relates to mmols) so how do you explain a drip, a drop A tear size sample being so high? Because I...

I am a type one on levemir and novo rapid. Today I bought a watermelon, & ate about a six inch piece. There was a small puddle of water on my plate and was curious as to how much sugar was in the watermelon. So I got a little of the fluid on my finger and let the one touch verio blood strip...

I am a type 1 who does not react when I am hypo whilst asleep, I often wake up with the whole family in my room after one of my dogs had gone for help( my miniature yorkies have saved my life many many times) I don't know if they are going for help for me or themselves because they are scared...

I am type one and have been for 8 years, I had short term memory loss to some degree for about 10 years before diagnosis and this was down to calcification on the brain (a side effect from hypoparathyroidism) But... In June 2009 whilst on an insulin pump I had a hypo whilst I was asleep and...

I do consider myself obsessed with testing but for good reason. I have type 1, diagnosed 7 years ago. My driving licence was revoked less than a month later I am on 4 injections of two types of insulin daily- i was on an insulin pump for a few months but it resulted in me almost dying. I had...