Gosh....very good question ..what can a hypo feel like...??
Well, so many of us have differing happenings when hypo, and we can have so many symptoms that others watch out for.
With me, the vast majority of the time nowadays I don't actually think in my head, I am going hypo, I need sugar....BUT I do know that I need to test my blood and eat, but mentally I don't think hypo, but I definitely know that I need to test me blood.
Hwoever, if I have balleds up like I did at Christmas, when I accidentally tested my blood, and my machine told me I was high (hadn't washed hands), and I was actually low- unfortunately I believed my pump machine and whacked up the basal rates, and whacked through a correction bolus. Within 3 minutes I was needing 3rd party intervention from my husband. He didn't realise the extra overdose I had wrongfully given me.....however, he does know that I do the following: ' incoherent rambling speech, and glazed eyes. Then I tend to go to the floor or to the toilet, or to somewhere I think I can go to toilet (the garden has been known!!!)...I also then start screaming help me, help me, help me. He know never to let me wander off by myself, as I did this 20+ years ago, from a shop that I was managing-and was missing for 5 hours with the shop and safe keys!!!
If I get to 3rd party intervention, then I really am acting as if very, very drunk. I can hear and respond, but find it very difficult. I remember things afterwards...at Christmas I can remember wanting to hit out at my husband, but I didn't' and this was the first time he had ever seen me threatening to hit out at him.....I always remember thinking about my dogs, and always trying to to kiss them and hug them. When I am out of hyp, the first things I ask about are my dogs.
These are very rare. Christmas was an absolute **** up with not washing my hands after handling food....3rd party intervention is very, very rare, and the few instances I have mentioned are over a period of 26 years.
There is nothing to describe a hypo, as far as I am concerned, but my memories can be prompted, and although initally I don't know what has happened in 3rd party intervention, little things promt me to remember some of it aftewards. I do confess thought the 5 hours I was missing with the shop and safe keys have always been blank, besides what I was told of being found on a dual carriageway (stumbling) with clothes dirtied and blood and bruised, and apparently a lovely person thought he had hit me, and stopped and I begged him not to leave me, he bot me to hospital, initally thinking I was drunk. I came round later and he had left, but he had left his name and phone number with the hospital. I later phoned him and thanked him. Truly what happened on that one day, I will never know, but I am thankfully still here.
They are my worst scenarios...normally I will feel as if I have a slight headache and just needing to check my blood, and another sign fo rme is that I know I start for some reason to find myself really tired....
There are so many feelings I suspect that so many people get, but they really are quite undescribable at the latter stages. I wouldn't wish them on my worst enemy.
I was glad to actually see a hypo diabetic on a true life documentary in the last couple of months, as I would really like to see just what I am like, but my hubby is so good at helping me-he is far more interested in doing that, than videoing me!!!!!!
I have listed the worst scenario's for me, generally though I know that my friends can't tell if I am low. My husband does, and fortunately although I do not think the exact words of 'hypo' in my head, I know for some reason that I need to eat and do a blood test.
and from what you know about diabetes from your partner.
