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Hypo Awareness

Sweetheart66

Sweetheart66

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
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Is it normal for awareness of bg dropping to lessen as diabetic control improves? I use to get symtoms when my bg was dropping when it got to 6. Recently Ive had no symptoms and just randomly checked and found bg to be 5.
 
hi there @Sweethear66
both of the numbers you quote are not hypo -- so having symptoms at those numbers is typical of "false hypos"
these occur when your body is used to running at higher levels and "warns you that you are heading low -- once you run in single figures for a few weeks -- your body wil adjust and present hypos at around 3.8 - 4.3 -- which is more normal

hope this makes sense
 
As bg levels start to get lower, the hypo warning sign will also lower but as long as the level of tightness doesn't go too far, then its fairly ok for the hypo warning to come on between bg levels of 3.4 to 4.0mmol. A bg of about 6mmol before eating a main meal rising to about 8.5mmol at the 2.5hr mark and returning back to about 5 to 6mmol after 4 to 5hrs should help to ensure that the awareness of the hypo feeling is ok.
 
Sweethear66 said:
Is it normal for awareness of bg dropping to lessen as diabetic control improves? I use to get symtoms when my bg was dropping when it got to 6. Recently Ive had no symptoms and just randomly checked and found bg to be 5.
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Hypo is 3.9 so unless you have been running high for a long time then you should not feel hypo at 5 or 6. If you were dropping very quickly then yes I would expect you to start feeling a little off. Otherwise definitely no hypo symptoms at 5 or 6.
 
Had bg of 3.9 today and only found out from doing random test. I overdid it doing gardening today. I was feeling a bit tired and thought I better test just in case. I was thirsty so thought it was going to be high but no it was 3.9
 
I mostly don't feel hypos at all... Very occasionally I'll feel them if I have a very sudden swing, but mostly I literally can't feel a thing... Apt timing as currently heading for one (I have a cgm and it's telling me I'm 4.2 and dropping, with active insulin - meaning without my cgm and pump alerting / suspending me, I would definitely hypo) - and my body is telling me nada... My control is tight at the mo (I'm very newly pregnant so trying to keep it extra controlled!) -- but regardless of whether my numbers stay tightly in range, or I let them go a bit 'wild' - I still rarely get any signs... When I first mentioned this to my diabetic clinic they did set to loosen my control, and my awareness would come back - but for me it didn't make any difference, even though I let my numbers go into double figures for a while -- all it did was make me feel ******... :/
 
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