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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RuthW" data-source="post: 996544" data-attributes="member: 148713">I wish! I haven't "gone off on one" for almost twenty years now, fortunately, but when I was younger I could certainly be very aggressive when hypo. I was never actually violent to a person (I smashed a lot of pots once) but I could be very scary. I could slide quietly into a horrible sweaty hypo, or I could crash into an Incredible Hulk display. The Hulk version merely required someone to say or do something that I perceived as threatening as my blood sugar was in steep decline. The point is that the sweating is a sign that you are pumping adrenalin (which happens when blood sugar falls very rapidly), and that induces fright-or-flight, so if someone offers a "trigger" when, to top it all off, you are not capable of truly rational thought because you brain is starved if glucose. Kaboom!Apparently, A &E doctors dread drunks and hypo diabetics above all.</blockquote>

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