Hello.
I've just been diagnosed as type 2, and have been reading everything I can find.
I have a pretty good grasp of how my blood glucose gets high, but I'm a bit confused about hypos.
When I get hypo, I feel the shakes and the weakness and kinda anxiety-type symptoms, but I always just assumed that this is what happens to everyone when we go too long without food. Is that not the case? Is this just something that happens to us diabetics?
Also; if I don't deal with the hypo quickly enough (for example if I'm stuck in a traffic jam or breakdown or whatever and don't have some food handy), am I going to end up in a really bad way?
Thank you for any help, and for a great forum which has been really reassuring.
Robbie
I've just been diagnosed as type 2, and have been reading everything I can find.
I have a pretty good grasp of how my blood glucose gets high, but I'm a bit confused about hypos.
When I get hypo, I feel the shakes and the weakness and kinda anxiety-type symptoms, but I always just assumed that this is what happens to everyone when we go too long without food. Is that not the case? Is this just something that happens to us diabetics?
Also; if I don't deal with the hypo quickly enough (for example if I'm stuck in a traffic jam or breakdown or whatever and don't have some food handy), am I going to end up in a really bad way?
Thank you for any help, and for a great forum which has been really reassuring.
Robbie