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<blockquote data-quote="Scott-C" data-source="post: 2060319" data-attributes="member: 374531"><p>Welcome to the club, [USER=425990]@SueJB[/USER] , you're fairly recently dx'd and I think we've all made those big mistakes at some point early in our careers - I certainly had a few bad un's in the first year or two, where I was scared of going to sleep.</p><p></p><p>Although a bad drop to 2, especially at night, can be barnstormingly scary, there is little chance of death.</p><p></p><p>When you drop below around 4, the body's "autonomic responses" kick in big style to make you safe: adrenalin is released to tell the liver to release glycogen, stored glucose, to nudge levels back up.</p><p></p><p>Most of the "feeling like ****" after a bad hypo is the after-effect of the adrenalin rush, not the low bg.</p><p></p><p>There are stories of "dead-in-bed" from a bad hypo, but look behind the scenes of those, and they're generally either, "we couldn't think of anything else to blame it on", or someone doing something extraordinarily stupid, like 50u.</p><p></p><p>I'd encourage you to ask your team about getting libre on script, and then blinging it with a miaomiao transmitter. It only takes up a tiny little bit of arm-space, and knowing that your phone is going to ring when you hit 4.5 or whatever you set it at, is a huge comfort blanket against nasty night hypos.</p><p></p><p>Edited by moderator to remove rude ‘us and them’ typist comment.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scott-C, post: 2060319, member: 374531"] Welcome to the club, [USER=425990]@SueJB[/USER] , you're fairly recently dx'd and I think we've all made those big mistakes at some point early in our careers - I certainly had a few bad un's in the first year or two, where I was scared of going to sleep. Although a bad drop to 2, especially at night, can be barnstormingly scary, there is little chance of death. When you drop below around 4, the body's "autonomic responses" kick in big style to make you safe: adrenalin is released to tell the liver to release glycogen, stored glucose, to nudge levels back up. Most of the "feeling like ****" after a bad hypo is the after-effect of the adrenalin rush, not the low bg. There are stories of "dead-in-bed" from a bad hypo, but look behind the scenes of those, and they're generally either, "we couldn't think of anything else to blame it on", or someone doing something extraordinarily stupid, like 50u. I'd encourage you to ask your team about getting libre on script, and then blinging it with a miaomiao transmitter. It only takes up a tiny little bit of arm-space, and knowing that your phone is going to ring when you hit 4.5 or whatever you set it at, is a huge comfort blanket against nasty night hypos. Edited by moderator to remove rude ‘us and them’ typist comment. [/QUOTE]
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