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<blockquote data-quote="Muneeb" data-source="post: 2149746" data-attributes="member: 491635"><p>If you have hypo awareness and know the sytmptoms (checkout the info on here or hypo awareness programme), you can manage hypos the majority of the time yourself with glucotabs or full sugar drinks etc.</p><p></p><p>If its a severe hypo whereby you have gone unconscious they would have to call 999, you can use glucogen injections to administer glucose (but do not use oral aids), but they would have to make sure it is too low. Do not use an epi pen as that's for epiliepsy not diabetes, also never let them inject you with insulin as this would cause it to drop even lower.</p><p></p><p>You can use CGM's to minitor your levels with your phone etc and they can provide alarms if it goes too high/low.</p><p></p><p>If it goes too high, short term it can make you feel tired, drowsy, thirsty etc, but won't cause you to fall unconscious or anything, you simply inject insulin as required. Longer term obviously you can go into DKA and other complications, but that's down to you to monitor and adjust as necessary.</p><p></p><p>But I can't remember the last time I had a severe hypo and I've been diabetic for nearly 20 years. Its about getting on top of your management (carb counting, monitoring, adjusting and learning).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Muneeb, post: 2149746, member: 491635"] If you have hypo awareness and know the sytmptoms (checkout the info on here or hypo awareness programme), you can manage hypos the majority of the time yourself with glucotabs or full sugar drinks etc. If its a severe hypo whereby you have gone unconscious they would have to call 999, you can use glucogen injections to administer glucose (but do not use oral aids), but they would have to make sure it is too low. Do not use an epi pen as that's for epiliepsy not diabetes, also never let them inject you with insulin as this would cause it to drop even lower. You can use CGM's to minitor your levels with your phone etc and they can provide alarms if it goes too high/low. If it goes too high, short term it can make you feel tired, drowsy, thirsty etc, but won't cause you to fall unconscious or anything, you simply inject insulin as required. Longer term obviously you can go into DKA and other complications, but that's down to you to monitor and adjust as necessary. But I can't remember the last time I had a severe hypo and I've been diabetic for nearly 20 years. Its about getting on top of your management (carb counting, monitoring, adjusting and learning). [/QUOTE]
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