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How do you feel about Hypos?

How do you feel about hypos?

  • Hate them and do my best to avoid them

    Votes: 6 18.2%

  • Dislike them but i can cope with them

    Votes: 13 39.4%

  • Okay with them and coping is fine

    Votes: 7 21.2%

  • Don't feel that they affect me particularly

    Votes: 7 21.2%
  • Total voters
    33
  • Poll closed .
tim2000s

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I was having a discussion with a couple of HCPs on Twitter about how people feel about blood sugar levels, so I thought I'd set some quick and dirty polls both here and on Twitter to see what the outcomes were from the Online COmmunity. Please vote and let me know, and if you have any other thoughts, feel free to mention them!
 
Depends on the severity, but I'm generally very hypo aware and am equipped to cope with them. If I could pick one over the other, I'd always prefer to be low than high.
 
When I'm awake I don't feel them and don't care. But I am a bit worried they might kill be in the night. So, conflicted?
 
I too sometimes worry that I'll have a hypo in my sleep and never wake up. In reality my sleep pattern is so poor, I'm aware of every little creak and groan my body makes.
 
I do worry more about hypo's now, as I had a couple of very bad times lately, due to things going on in my life, so scared and my teenager and adult son too.
 
I hate them mainly because I often over-correct and then end up hyper. My days are a lot more of a high-low "yo-yo" when I've had a hypo and it takes a lot of effort to get myself back under control. The actual feeling of the hypo itself isn't so bad; I get a bit of an increased heart-rate and can get a panicky/sweaty/nervous type feeling but it very quickly subsides after some sugar. It's more dealing with it that I hate; I hate having to eat when I otherwise wouldn't want to (and especially because it's "empty calories", too).
 
can only speak from my own experience - they generally don't bother me -- i test and if below 4.0 i either treat or know i am eating a meal soon so just wait to eat.

agree with others about night time hypo's though.

am frightened of the potential ( so far hasn't happened )to lose my license over something which despite my best efforts could potentially be out of my control ( voice of long experience )
 
I'm for the most part hypo unaware can hit 1.5 and not even know it = having to test a LOT just to make sure things are in rang and I'm safe.
 
I eat so few carbs which allows me to take very small doses so the only fear now is pen malfunction or stupid dosing (one too many clicks of the pen) . I used to tell my husband every night if he woke up to make sure I was alive. I can't live like that. Small meals, small doses = less fear but yes, in the end insulin in any dose scares me
 
I find this low carbing lark means my mistakes are much safer. I know that. 4g glucotablet raises my sugars by roughly 1.5 ish so I don't tend to over correct. I self fund cgm so have the alarm set on 4.4. This allows plenty of time to test and correct if needed.
If I'm sat on the couch for a length of time I might just stay in the low 4s until the next meal.
Because of this, it's been a long time since I've had a plunging blood sugar. Pre low carb and pump I developed DP and to try and sort it out did every variation of the long acting as I could for about 8 months and nothing worked. It led to those disgustingly sweaty hypos in the middle of the night at a time my partner worked away. Luckily I always woke up. To combat this I set the alarm for every two hours to wake up and test and correct as needed. I was almost psychotic with sleep deprivation in the end.
I have a terrible fear of having to rely on someone when so far I have never had to. I shouldn't have to rely on anyone- I think that's my biggest fear about hypos.
 
Hypos are the most horrible thing I have ever experienced. The best analogy I can come up with is that it is like there is an invisible Dementor (Harry Potter) or Black Rider (Lord of the Rings) in the room. I feel intense dread. It feels like there is something very sinister wrong with the world. Like I have been injected with a weird poison.

5 years of type 1! I would love to have lost some awareness, but it hasn't happened.

I avoid hypos like the plague. I have about one every month or two, and that's enough. I am very reluctant to allow my sugar below 6.0 for this reason.
 
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