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<blockquote data-quote="Rose22" data-source="post: 2198317" data-attributes="member: 509613"><p>Firstly you must have a lot of stress and anxiety going on at the moment with finals going on. Hopefully that is for this week and then you get a bit of downtime?</p><p>I can’t offer any advice on insulin I’m afraid, as I only had it when I was pregnant with my daughter. But I was taking a med Gliclazide that is long acting, 12 hours and makes you produce insulin for that time. For me it was too strong and I had hypos. Not as low as you have by any means by the sounds of it, but I just wanted to say, I understand where you are coming from with the panic feeling and anxiety from it. I too had that feeling. I think is started after I had a hypo out of the blue, and I hadn’t for a long time. I wasn’t expecting to just dropped low on the med, and the feeling of loosing control scared me. Then I became really worried that I was going to hypo, before driving, once I arrived somewhere, like my local supermarket, I’d start to panic and feel really jittery. I’d test and it would be 5 or something, so not anywhere near low. It was more a fear of it. It went on the whole time I took that med. I tried to do deep breathing and to tell myself I was ok and I can do this. It helped, plus oddly I found having water and jellybabies on me helped too...as soon as I was feeling it, I’d eat one and drink water. Calm my thoughts and then try carry on and the feeling would lessen again. It’s very hard to describe, but it is not a nice feeling. You might be feeling it heightened at the mo with added tests going on. That is a stress and pressure in itself. Fear can make us feel things very intensely. You must’ve felt scared with the er visit. Maybe look at the positives from it, you could write down all the negatives...what you felt, what you where frightened about, what you couldn’t control etc...then really try focus on positives from it. (Sounds hard I know) that you are resilient, that you are strong and about to do finals, and others only you would know...maybe there is a diabetes support group near you?</p><p>Good luck with your exams. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="☺️" title="Smiling face :relaxed:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/263a.png" data-shortname=":relaxed:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rose22, post: 2198317, member: 509613"] Firstly you must have a lot of stress and anxiety going on at the moment with finals going on. Hopefully that is for this week and then you get a bit of downtime? I can’t offer any advice on insulin I’m afraid, as I only had it when I was pregnant with my daughter. But I was taking a med Gliclazide that is long acting, 12 hours and makes you produce insulin for that time. For me it was too strong and I had hypos. Not as low as you have by any means by the sounds of it, but I just wanted to say, I understand where you are coming from with the panic feeling and anxiety from it. I too had that feeling. I think is started after I had a hypo out of the blue, and I hadn’t for a long time. I wasn’t expecting to just dropped low on the med, and the feeling of loosing control scared me. Then I became really worried that I was going to hypo, before driving, once I arrived somewhere, like my local supermarket, I’d start to panic and feel really jittery. I’d test and it would be 5 or something, so not anywhere near low. It was more a fear of it. It went on the whole time I took that med. I tried to do deep breathing and to tell myself I was ok and I can do this. It helped, plus oddly I found having water and jellybabies on me helped too...as soon as I was feeling it, I’d eat one and drink water. Calm my thoughts and then try carry on and the feeling would lessen again. It’s very hard to describe, but it is not a nice feeling. You might be feeling it heightened at the mo with added tests going on. That is a stress and pressure in itself. Fear can make us feel things very intensely. You must’ve felt scared with the er visit. Maybe look at the positives from it, you could write down all the negatives...what you felt, what you where frightened about, what you couldn’t control etc...then really try focus on positives from it. (Sounds hard I know) that you are resilient, that you are strong and about to do finals, and others only you would know...maybe there is a diabetes support group near you? Good luck with your exams. ☺️ [/QUOTE]
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