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Message: <blockquote data-quote="clareb1970" data-source="post: 1435309" data-attributes="member: 168117">Before I received a kidney/pancreas transplant I would have hypos all the time.  My BG could just plummet and I would have the worst hypos.  I could go from feeling fine at work (desk job) then a few minutes later my heart would be pounding and my clothes soaked through.  I could neither move not speak coherently and I would get so scared that I was going to pass out and never wake up again.  This would happen a lot - about 4 or 5 times per week - sometimes at work and often in the night.  Yet other times my BG would be high for no reason at all.It wasn't always like this.  Before I had children I had few hypos and could feel them coming on long before I got the shakes.  I used to get a tickle under my left upper arm and I would think "here we go" and true enough about  ten minutes later I would start to get very hot and shakes.Hypos were the absolute bane of my life as a diabetic.  I got too scared to go out anywhere on my own in case I had one.  I never learned to drive for fear of having one at the wheel.  When I was pregnant with my daughter I was on my way, walking to the diabetic clinic when I suddenly went into a hypo.  I was on my own and couldn't speak to get help.  I ended up making it into a hardware shop and just collapsed on the floor.  Luckily an assistant realised what the problem was and brought me a sugary drink.  It took me two days to get over that one.Sorry, I've gone off on a tangent here!  I was always told that I should not be having any more than 2 hypos a month.  What annoyed me was that those giving the advise did so from a textbook - NOT through experience.  I hated having hypos and would have done anything to avoid that awful feeling.</blockquote>

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