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Hypo warnings AFTER treating hypo?

Lucie75

Well-Known Member
Messages
302
Location
Bristol
Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Pump
Hi all,

This has happened to me several times, but not on a regular basis. I wonder whether this happens to anyone else? Sometimes I am hypo and don't immediately feel it - my bs can be under 3 and I'll feel absolutely fine. I treat it, because after all I am hypo, and it's only after I've had a swig of lucozade etc that I suddenly break out in sweats etc. I wonder if the lucozade is kickstarting my metabolism and kind of 'waking' my body up? It's as though my system goes dormant sometimes (maybe when I haven't eaten in while), and when I treat the hypo it gives it a bit of a kick.

Does anyone else sometimes experience this?
 
how weird, I've just posted on another thread 'how low can you go', started by someone else, about exactly this.
YES. That is exactly what happens to me - sweats only start on the way up!
 
Hi
Like you both i often don't have hypo symptoms, i usually have to check blood sugars regularly just to make sure, but i don't get the sweats. I have had diabetes type1 for 36yrs, there must be more people a round that don't get hypo symptoms, so would love to know how they get round this
 
That always happens to me too. fine at 3 but get above 3.8 and i start shaking, sweating, palpatations the job lot !!! :?
 
My theory is that the symptoms are there because of a sudden change in BS - not the fact that BS goes below a certain level. don't forget that it's the medication that causes a hypo, NOT your diabetes.

A hypo is the result of an overdose (or complete lack of food).
 
I've had this also. It's quite scary knowing that I can (sometimes) fall lower than 3mmol before my body tells me to check BG. Anyway, I wonder if those shakes after the Lucozade are not hypo symptoms at all, but rather similar to hyper symptoms as your body has just been flushed with quick acting sugar. Like having a mini hyper before returning to normal 4> levels. Just a thought... no science behind it, rather interpreting how it feels to me.
 
Hi Guys,

I have noticed that if sugars have been high and I have had a hypo, the syptoms have been more pronouced! ( The very 1st 1 after diagnosis especially. ) I do get warnings and have noticed recently that i get a familiar feeling ( not severe ) and when tested have actually been just above 4. say 4.1/ 4.2. Maybe I am just more in tune with my body. I do sometimes feel worse after the hypo has been trated as you say. But definately more pronouced and severe symptoms if sugars have been previously been high. I also get after every hypo a feeling of being extremely cold and sometimes really tired. When I was young I used to faint alot ( low BP ) and would feel the same tired feeling Weird.

BTW How many of you busy people actually sit for 10 mins while addressing a Hypo. I am trying harder to now. But in the past when you have a child to see to and everything else going on I have mostly just tried to sort it on the run! :!:
 
Hi

I never get the sweats on the way down only on the way back up from one.
 
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