Those VR headsets always make me feel nauseous too, and the visual effects are very powerful.
Hopefully it will give some idea, but it won't be the whole body experience (or my particular brand of psychotic rage), that is for sure!
The only way they could realy understand the mindset of it, is in a controlled safe environment & sent sub 3.5...
I read that newly diagnosed diabetics used to be forced into a controlled state of hypoglycemia at the hospital as to make them aware of the sensations and get an idea of what to look out for.
Any ideas why the induced hypo idea changed @noblehead?That is what happened to myself @GrantGam
Spent 5 days in hospital and wasn't allowed home until I'd had a hypo, in the end they induced the hypo and still remember it to this day.
Times have changed and newly diagnosed people aren't always admitted to hospital now, but managing type 1 back then was a little bit more tricky as you didn't have bg meters (you had to test for glucose in your urine which was time consumming) and we didn't have the luxury of insulin pens, the syringes we used were the old fashioned type made of glass and the needles for them were the same size as knitting needles
Any ideas why the induced hypo idea changed @noblehead?
Fully agree. I had my first one on the way to lunch with the Mrs, luckily I wasn't driving as I plummeted quite rapidly after interpreting a nutritional label incorrectly for breakfast...The good thing about having your first hypo in a hospital setting is you know you are safe, looking back I'm sort of pleased they done it that way as the first hypo can be frightening.
Sure I was aware of the symptoms, but being aware of them and experiencing them for the first time are two very different things!
Absolutely. Was a define panic, and a sweaty one at that!Absolutely, totally agree. At least you come to no harm and over-correcting is just impulse as your body is in a state of panic (in a situation that it doesn't recognise).
That is what happened to myself @GrantGam
Spent 5 days in hospital and wasn't allowed home until I'd had a hypo, in the end they induced the hypo and still remember it to this day.
Times have changed and newly diagnosed people aren't always admitted to hospital now, but managing type 1 back then was a little bit more tricky as you didn't have bg meters (you had to test for glucose in your urine which was time consumming) and we didn't have the luxury of insulin pens, the syringes we used were the old fashioned type made of glass and the needles for them were the same size as knitting needles
I don't remember an induced hypo either even though I was in for 2 weeks. I certainly remember the glass syringes and urine testing though as that went on for a number of years.I remember you mentioning hypo inducement a while back.. I'm wracking my brain & don't remember ever undergoing this.
(Though I was in hospital for about 5 days.)
I was just given a "Janet & John have diabetes" book & told "if you come over all queer.? Eat something & drink milk."
Like you, I remember the pee test kit & glass syringes & was drawing up & injecting myself the first week I was back home.
The "care package" at school was an 8 year old & a satchel containing a chemisty set & mars bars .. Seriously, that was it!
In the twee illustrated book John feels funny after running out to play without eating & mum gave him milk.. He was always getting onto jolly old scrapes with his diabetes.. But help is always at hand.
In the early years it felt like I'd been knocked sideways on the animal stuff..
It taught me think calm & rationally under duress.. No one else had a clue how to help in most scenarios unless it happened at home..
I remember you mentioning hypo inducement a while back.. I'm wracking my brain & don't remember ever undergoing this.
I was just given a "Janet & John have diabetes" book & told "if you come over all queer.? Eat something & drink milk."
Like you, I remember the pee test kit & glass syringes & was drawing up & injecting myself the first week I was back home.
The "care package" at school was an 8 year old & a satchel containing a chemisty set & mars bars .. Seriously, that was it!
In the early years it felt like I'd been knocked sideways on the animal stuff..
Ah yes, the surgical spirit! I remember touching the bottom of the test tube when doing my pee test to see if the Clinitest tablet really did boil it. It did!And the smell of surgical spirit (was it surgical spirit we kept the syringe in?). The pee test was the called the Clinitest Kit, there some good pics on Google images as a reminder of what one looked like.
Ah yes, the surgical spirit! I remember touching the bottom of the test tube when doing my pee test to see if the Clinitest tablet really did boil it. It did!
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