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<blockquote data-quote="rstonepal" data-source="post: 1165910" data-attributes="member: 127281"><p>I think I know what you are asking as I called them false hypos also. I also call the other ones false hypers. They happen for no reason. Thankfully, I found out what those false hypos are from. I live in the US so our measurements are different, but, my daily average BG is 115. When it drops to 50, that is when I feel it, my hands and arms go painfully numb. I have been in this condition since January 2016 and it is due to me having an adverse reaction to the brand of insulin I must use under my health insurance mandate. It took 18 months for us to find, I have hypo reactions when I use Humalog. I had this same problem with Pork insulin. I went on Novolog and the hypos I had afterwards were real, down in the 50s.</p><p></p><p>My false highs are from my pump. I am on a Tslim insulin pump. They indicate the insertion site should be changed every 3 days. I am unable to wear it that long. When I hit that second day, my 115 shoots up to well over 250 and stays there. When I am not paying attention, I just dose. I end up dosing enough to put an elephant into hypo and nothing happens. All I have to do is put in an new site and plug in. I am still trying to find the cause for this one as, when I swap out the site, without dosing, everything I took that day seems to hit my system within 30 minutes, then I seriously go hypo.</p><p></p><p>If I misinterpreted this and you are wondering why you feel hypo at, oh, say, 150. that is a matter of getting used to the lower BG. Prior to CGMs, my average BG was 350+. I was told that as I lower that, I will feel hypo, do not react. I was told to live through that feeling and eventually it would stop at the higher levels. It took me a few months of panicking but I made it through. My A1C is 6.7 because I have been ill, BG has been high.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rstonepal, post: 1165910, member: 127281"] I think I know what you are asking as I called them false hypos also. I also call the other ones false hypers. They happen for no reason. Thankfully, I found out what those false hypos are from. I live in the US so our measurements are different, but, my daily average BG is 115. When it drops to 50, that is when I feel it, my hands and arms go painfully numb. I have been in this condition since January 2016 and it is due to me having an adverse reaction to the brand of insulin I must use under my health insurance mandate. It took 18 months for us to find, I have hypo reactions when I use Humalog. I had this same problem with Pork insulin. I went on Novolog and the hypos I had afterwards were real, down in the 50s. My false highs are from my pump. I am on a Tslim insulin pump. They indicate the insertion site should be changed every 3 days. I am unable to wear it that long. When I hit that second day, my 115 shoots up to well over 250 and stays there. When I am not paying attention, I just dose. I end up dosing enough to put an elephant into hypo and nothing happens. All I have to do is put in an new site and plug in. I am still trying to find the cause for this one as, when I swap out the site, without dosing, everything I took that day seems to hit my system within 30 minutes, then I seriously go hypo. If I misinterpreted this and you are wondering why you feel hypo at, oh, say, 150. that is a matter of getting used to the lower BG. Prior to CGMs, my average BG was 350+. I was told that as I lower that, I will feel hypo, do not react. I was told to live through that feeling and eventually it would stop at the higher levels. It took me a few months of panicking but I made it through. My A1C is 6.7 because I have been ill, BG has been high. [/QUOTE]
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