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<blockquote data-quote="catapillar" data-source="post: 1438976" data-attributes="member: 32394"><p>Why are you attempting to do anything apart from treat your hypo when your blood sugar is 1.2? Pause for 5 minutes and have some dextrose tablets to quickly raise blood sugar. </p><p></p><p>Options for resolving disabling hypos and hypo unawareness other than pancreas transplant include running sugars higher, CBT therapy, continuous glucose monitoring, pump therapy with predictive low suspend, islet cell transplant.</p><p></p><p>The Hypo Awareness Restoration Programme has recently recieved ethical approcal for RCT and they are recruiting for people who are hypo unaware with disabling hypos. Stephanie Amiel is running it in London and I think Simon heller is running it in Sheffield. It might be worth asking for a referral to see if the HARP course can help. I sought a referral to Kings when my team refused to apply for CGM for me and were very keen to get me on the transplant list instead. Prof Ameil has got me on the Medtronic 640 with CGM funded, this has a predictive low suspend feature so if it thinks you are going to go hypo it will stop delivering insulin, I'm not getting on especially well with the sensors (they don't particularly like working in me, but that's just me) and she's confirmed she'll get me funding for dexcom if the 640 isn't working so I'm pleased with that. I'm still being assessed by the transplant team and would still be elligble for HARP if disabling hypos continue and they will be opening it up for restoration purposes once it's been tested on whether it reduces disabling hypos (initial results were v positive) because the technology doesn't restore awareness.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="catapillar, post: 1438976, member: 32394"] Why are you attempting to do anything apart from treat your hypo when your blood sugar is 1.2? Pause for 5 minutes and have some dextrose tablets to quickly raise blood sugar. Options for resolving disabling hypos and hypo unawareness other than pancreas transplant include running sugars higher, CBT therapy, continuous glucose monitoring, pump therapy with predictive low suspend, islet cell transplant. The Hypo Awareness Restoration Programme has recently recieved ethical approcal for RCT and they are recruiting for people who are hypo unaware with disabling hypos. Stephanie Amiel is running it in London and I think Simon heller is running it in Sheffield. It might be worth asking for a referral to see if the HARP course can help. I sought a referral to Kings when my team refused to apply for CGM for me and were very keen to get me on the transplant list instead. Prof Ameil has got me on the Medtronic 640 with CGM funded, this has a predictive low suspend feature so if it thinks you are going to go hypo it will stop delivering insulin, I'm not getting on especially well with the sensors (they don't particularly like working in me, but that's just me) and she's confirmed she'll get me funding for dexcom if the 640 isn't working so I'm pleased with that. I'm still being assessed by the transplant team and would still be elligble for HARP if disabling hypos continue and they will be opening it up for restoration purposes once it's been tested on whether it reduces disabling hypos (initial results were v positive) because the technology doesn't restore awareness. [/QUOTE]
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