Type 1 After effects of a bad hypo?

I'm sorry about your ordeal, you must have been terrified. I've never experienced such low numbers. Even if I go below 3.5 I have a terrible hangover the next day.
Were you finger prinking to check rather than just using a CGM or FGM? Oral glucose gel acts faster than sweets. I have some tubes around the house. DAFNE recommended orange juice or lucozade too.
Hope you're feeling better soon.

Yes, that's a pretty usual reaction to a really low hypo which has lasted some time before it was corrected. I was diagnosed in 1964, but had a succession of night hypos over several years as soon as I was put on a basal bolus regime. A dreadful headache, plus your entire body aching is fairly typical I would say. If you take it easy the following day, after a decent night's proper sleep you should feel largely recovered. I used to keep a bottle of Lucozade on a shelf in the wardrobe because that seemed to fix things faster. I would forget the sweets in this situation. Glucogel or Lucozade would be a better choice. You can get more down your throat faster and it can act more quickly.

Edited to add - Not the lower-sugar Lucozade on sale now ! You want the most carb-laden drink you can find, but one you like the taste of too. Have a read of the carb contents on whatever you like best and compare with some others. If your BS level is very low, you may be reluctant to drink stuff you don't like.

Sending you hugs @Alex_B. Hypo's like this are horrible, and i feel terrible afterwards, or the next day if they're overnight, although I have never had the shakes the day after. As ert has already said, I find liquid treats hypo's like this better, sweets take too long to work, and then I end up taking too many and having horrible spikes in bg's after.

I get really bad hypo's like this every so often for no apparent reason. Can eat exactly the same two days running and have ok levels, and the next day have a hypo that doesn't want to respond to jelly babies (normally they work fine). 15g of liquid glucose usually sorts it out, but occasionally can need a little bit more.

Take care, and hope you don't have any more hypo's as bad as this.

I'm not T1 but I can sympathise and I do, am sorry you felt so unwell.

Sorry to hear about your bad experience .Personally I tend to feel like **** the day after a bad night time hypo.
I definitely agree that liquid high in sugar is the quickest to treat a hypo. Due to the reduction of sugar in a lot of once high sugar drinks, Coco Cola is virtually the only one which hasn’t reduced its sugar contents. I always keep the mini cans of cola beside my bed .They are only 150ml but they have 15 g of sugar carbs, which is the ideal amount to treat a hypo so you can drink the whole can quite easily and it gives you a great sugar hit to help raise your sugar quickly to assist the hypo . I sometimes have taken 2 my sugars rocket but easily treated later , all I need at that point in time is to raise my sugar .
Hope your bad experience didn’t scare you too much , but I would say your feelings after it are not unusual .
Take care stay safe
“” never tell me the odds””

Usually I am just bothered for a few hours after, drained and just blah. But sometimes it lasts longer. I find liquids like orange juice are much easier to stomach if you don't want anything and work faster anyway than any kind of chewable candy etc. Do keep a glucogel of some kind around because if someone is with you they can actually rub some of it into your cheek if needed. Also glucogen shot or they have a new nasal spray Baqsimi now which is always good to have on hand for extreme emergencies.

Alex_B said:

Last night I had a bad hypo, my body wasn’t responding to the sweets and went so low to the point that the machine said “LO”. We had to call an ambulance as I kept trying to go to sleep instead of treating it. I was panicked as I thought I was going to die.

This morning my body aches, I had shakes when I woke up and I just feel dreadful. Is this normal?

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Hi @Alex_B ,

"The hypo hangover." Yep, as long as I get something down my neck. Survival instinct from when I was on the porcine stuff as a kid..
What can happen is the meter will take a snapshot of your BG anything upto 20 minutes prior? So it can show a further reduction prior to a rise, if you test too soon after the first.? (It's not just Libres that can be laggy as you haul back up.)
It don't help when struggling with cognitive impairment..

I hope you're feeling better.

Marie 2 said:

Usually I am just bothered for a few hours after, drained and just blah. But sometimes it lasts longer. I find liquids like orange juice are much easier to stomach if you don't want anything and work faster anyway than any kind of chewable candy etc. Do keep a glucogel of some kind around because if someone is with you they can actually rub some of it into your cheek if needed. Also glucogen shot or they have a new nasal spray Baqsimi now which is always good to have on hand for extreme emergencies.

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For those in the uk, Baqsimi isn't available here yet. I enquired about it 3 weeks ago, and my DSN and the company rep in the uk hadn't even heard of it!! They checked it out and will let me know when it's available in the uk. Will let you know when I hear anything, as it sounds good.