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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CheeseSeaker" data-source="post: 2715521" data-attributes="member: 531814">Hi [USER=55009]@Agraham1826[/USER] - yes, its scary stuff.I've had some 'interesting outages' over the years - my summary of why (based on me guessing) is that a hypos is essentially starvation of the brain of glucose (it uses blood glucose as energy to the brain cells, and water - but nothing else as nutrients).When BG is low - bits of the brain either don't work or miss-fire, and while most hypos can take a common path (bits that get hit commonly first), other times odd stuff happens. Been say in a chair, quite happily conscious and able to talk like nothing was wrong, stood up an 'failed to walk' <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Another time, was completely out of it - no memory, when I started to come round had begun to decorate the bathroom (no knowledge of starting it, or wanting to decorate) - thankfully not a bad job, so easy to recover (lived alone at the time)In summary - odd things can happen, events like yours were why I started using CGM and a watch that would alarm when I started dropping, that lead to wearing a pump, and eventually to using a fully-closed-loop where it sorts everything out. Not perfect, but a heck of a lot safer for me.</blockquote>

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