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I have seen quite a few things on here where people have bg under 5 (ie.a question about healing )
My bg is rarely that low because i start to feel distincly odd as soon as it drops below 5, am i doing something wrong? : :?
 
I regularly have what I call Virgil Tracy moments if my bg drops around 4.6, so I don't think you are doing anything wrong.
 
Hi Deb
Don't worry thing is alot of people don't go that low, as soon as i drop below 4.5 i start to feel dizzy and faint! I usually know i am heading for ahypo of some kind!
Sandy
 
When I first began taking Metformin I would get a hypo like symptoms when my bg dropped to 5.0 mmol/l. I read on one post that someone called this a pseudo hypo which is a good way of putting it as it is not actually a hypo but it feels like it. When your blood sugars begin to be well controlled then this will not happen unless you drop below 4.0 mmol/l. I usually don't get symptoms unless I go as 3.5 mmol/l at present.
 
Although obviously everyone is different, I think it also depends on what your normal "range" is, if you're used to higher levels what may seem like a hypos to you could be perfectly normal for someone else. Over a longer period of time it's certainly possible to re-educate your body to get used to lower levels, up to a point.

Below 5 is when I start to get nervous, and with no awareness of hypos that's understandable I think? But I don't like to be over 7 either, that being the point at which vascular damage starts. Feels like a tightrope sometimes!
 
I am familiar with those hypo feelings, I used to get then at about 5.5 when I started to reduce my numbers. I would test when I felt them and was surprised to see my readings were quite high.

I think these feelings/sensations are "false hypos" as your body gets used to running with high blood sugar levels.

I'm not sure of the true figure, but I think a real hypo is heading under the 2s and the lower 3s.

I had my first reading under 5 today without strenuous exercise or a glass of wine. I was very pleased to see it. This time it was accompanied by hunger pangs rather than hypo feelings :D
 
Hi Spiral.

A Hypo is considered by the Medical Profession and other experts to be anything below 4 mmol/l. The saying is, "4 is the floor."
There are people who can function well at or below these levels but it is still Hypoglycaemic and should be avoided as it is just as dangerous to run at these levels as higher numbers,
i.e. Hyperglycaemic.

Ken.
 
I started on insulin for the first time yesterday and my biggest fear is a hypo. Injected myself 8 units of Novamix 30 last night before dinner and my blood sugars before bed were 9.4 which is the lowest I have been for months, panicked thinking I would drop really low during the night and ate two biscuits! Woke this morning sweating buckets and when tested my reading was 11.5! Tonight I must drop the biscuits!! :D
 
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