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Hypo differences

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DonnaC-T

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Type of diabetes
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Hi
What an odd thing. Hypo at 11.30 pm, it was a full blown 'shaking, sweating, bit confused, can I make it to the lucozade and prickly my finger' hypo. I was 3.6 when I tested which confused me even more as I felt so low.
Then at about 5.45 am low again but nice and calm, completely coherent, no shaking sweaty etc. I woke up, did that thing where you wonder for a couple of minutes why you're awake, thought maybe I'm low and there we are, 2.7.
So strange that the really low one I was fine whereas the only just low I wasn't!
Sometimes this diabetes lark makes about as much sense as my year one children!
 
Ha! I had exactly the same thing yesterday! I had a few lows due to exercising at different points during the day. However I barely felt the 2.7, but felt awful with a 3.5.

Definitely bizarre!!


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Yup, agree here. I have been on nights the last week and at one point tested before surgery and was 2.5! I always test before doing surgery as it'd be dangerous (and irresponsible) to have one when half way through. Whereas the other day 3.5 and jittery etc
 
Yes it definitely has a warped mind of it's own, I woke this morning at 6.15am with a slight jittery feeling, so I checked my blood and it was 2.3, which is very low, but I felt ok. There have been other times when it was just below 4 and I have been losing it, arms shaking etc.
Also there are two types of hypo feelngs I get, the most common one is like butterflies in my stomach, the readings then can range from 2.something to 4.something. Then there are the more severe ones, which creep up on me. I notice my eyesight becomes a bit kind of grainy and when I blink it is as though I have just looked up at the sun, if you know what I mean?
That is the dangerous one, when, if managed, my readings are 1.something, I get confused, start looking round a lot, hear sound in my ears and then my right arm shakes uncontrollably. Thankfully that one does not happen ofte, touch wood, but it can be scary and, if in public, embarrassing :oops: but we cannot help it. Yes it sure is a malevolent illness :twisted:
 
Bogusman I know exactly what you mean when you describe the eyesight issue. I have experimented that at a very strong level from time to time and it's the sign for me that I don't have much time left.
Further to perceiving an hypo with a reading of 3.5 stronger than an hypo with a reading of 2, I guess that the reason may depend on how rapidly your blood sugar is dropping.
However after 34 years of diabetes (practically all my life) I have learnt that diabetes doesn't follow rules :-)


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I think this rings true in all of us. Remember that the symptoms we get are brought on by the speed at which your bg is dropping and doesn't necessarily correspond to how low you actually are. We also (or at least I do) get to the point when you are so low that you sort of go into denial and refuse any help that is offered - the fact that you are calm in the 2's might be where you are on the verge of that denial period. Been there, done it, don't like it.
 
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