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Hypo at Work

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calluna

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Had a very strange hypo at work the other day. On insulin twice a day (Novomix 30) BG on getting up in morning 0630 hrs was 11.7 not bad for me. Usual breakfast of hot oatmeal (known as oatmeal brose in Scotland)(also known as gruel). In managers office 0845 I collapsed unconcious for about 10 mins. In that time ambulance was called. I came round before ambulance arrived and one of the other workers who has a diabetic daughter gave me a tube of glucose boost also a hot very sweet tea to drink. The ambulance arrived and they took a blood glucose which was 4.7 and rising. The opinion was that my BG must have dropped below 3 when I passed out. Decided not to go to hospital. Contacted diabetic centre. I have been on insulin for two years and they seem to think that for some reason I absorbed the insulin faster than it should have done. The injection site was always below the belly button either on the left or right and never the same site or so I thought. Anyway now told to vary injection sites to upper thighs. What does surprise me is the fact that I came round on my own without any medical assistance


Dave
 
Sadly from your notes here you haven't come around without medical assistance.

You say you passed out for 10 mins

A colleague and other work people assisted you..

It appears from your posting that you did not recognise your hypo... And did not actually help yourself.

Now this to me is worrying that you consider it as ' coming around without any medical assistance' --- what do you think your colleague did?

What do you consider to be medical assistance??
I count medical assistance to be any person other than myself giving me a sweet, sugar etc whether they have green boiler suits on with blue flashing lights or not.

The instance you have listed here is what I deem in my eyes as being hypo unaware...
 
If you came round from unconsciousness (which is what I gather you're implying) with no assistance, if your colleagues did nothing but call an ambulance whilst you were unconscious as well, it I perfectly possible. I've come around from unconsciousness with no assistance before. From what I have been told, when it happened to me, it has to do with your liver releasing glucagon to raise your BG levels in event of a hypo. Your body's own way of combating a sugar drop.


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