I just remembered two more.
One when I was pregnant with my first son. About 3 months gone and due to go for a diabetes check that day. I got up, my BG was around 4 or so, it was usual to be a bit low in the mornings, I injected then went down to have breakfast. Older insulins (result of that pregnancy is now 26) worked slower so we injected about twenty minutes before a meal. I always used to inject and then have breakfast straight away. Well, a short while later my hubby came down to breakfast and I was sitting at the table with my back to the door. When I didn't respond to his 'Good Morning' he touched my shoulder and I fell over unconscious. The chair had been holding me up. I expect he honeyed me again, but I came round ok. I can only imagine that I must have put the insulin into a vein because it knocked me out in such a short time. I swore that if it ever happened again, out of the blue like that, I would hand in my driving licence, but it never has.
The other one was in the night again. Usual scenario: hubby did all the honey etc but I didn't come round properly. I was conscious and fully aware, but couldn't breathe. When he rang the doctor he got told to do all the things he'd already done and when he came to tell me that I said 'Make him come.' So he did. Our regular doctor would have come straight off because he knew that we would never call unless nothing else had worked. A glugagen injection into my arm kick started my brain again and I was fine. A long time later a doctor admitted that that one could have killed me. The BG must have gone so low that the system was unable to absorb it somehow. I dare say a medic could make me understand what he meant, but I don't really now. Anyway, it was a bit of a close call.
Be reassured: all these nasties happened when on Actrapid (except the couple of walking unconscious ones that were many years before Actrapid was invented). I avoid it like the plague. I have not had a hypo that needed major assistance since I came off that and on to the modern ones. Currently on Humalog and Lantus.
One when I was pregnant with my first son. About 3 months gone and due to go for a diabetes check that day. I got up, my BG was around 4 or so, it was usual to be a bit low in the mornings, I injected then went down to have breakfast. Older insulins (result of that pregnancy is now 26) worked slower so we injected about twenty minutes before a meal. I always used to inject and then have breakfast straight away. Well, a short while later my hubby came down to breakfast and I was sitting at the table with my back to the door. When I didn't respond to his 'Good Morning' he touched my shoulder and I fell over unconscious. The chair had been holding me up. I expect he honeyed me again, but I came round ok. I can only imagine that I must have put the insulin into a vein because it knocked me out in such a short time. I swore that if it ever happened again, out of the blue like that, I would hand in my driving licence, but it never has.
The other one was in the night again. Usual scenario: hubby did all the honey etc but I didn't come round properly. I was conscious and fully aware, but couldn't breathe. When he rang the doctor he got told to do all the things he'd already done and when he came to tell me that I said 'Make him come.' So he did. Our regular doctor would have come straight off because he knew that we would never call unless nothing else had worked. A glugagen injection into my arm kick started my brain again and I was fine. A long time later a doctor admitted that that one could have killed me. The BG must have gone so low that the system was unable to absorb it somehow. I dare say a medic could make me understand what he meant, but I don't really now. Anyway, it was a bit of a close call.
Be reassured: all these nasties happened when on Actrapid (except the couple of walking unconscious ones that were many years before Actrapid was invented). I avoid it like the plague. I have not had a hypo that needed major assistance since I came off that and on to the modern ones. Currently on Humalog and Lantus.