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Life saving pooch!!

Postleneo

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Location
West Midlands
Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Insulin
Thanks to my little bichon frise i'm still here and can write this post! Normally when going to bed I have a small snack of a Jacobs cracker with peanut butter as my BS is usually around 6-7 mmols and tend to drop in the night before the DP hits around 4am - I usually correct this when I wake at 430am each morning. However, as I was at 8.2 mmol when going to bed last night at 11pm I didn't bother with a snack. Unfortunately my alarm didn't do off in the morning and instead woke at 6:45 to my dog barking next to me for Britain!! on getting out of bed I felt so woozy and wobbly, my legs nearly giving way and as I felt on the verge of collapsing I scanned my Libre to find my BS were at 2.1!!... actual bloods may well have been lower!!- and where was the DP when I actually needed it??....nowhere to be seen!!!! So thankful to her as god knows what would have happened if it weren't for her barking and waking me!!.... a bit weird as this is the 3rd time this sort of thing has happened.... I am now convinced she has the power of sensing my hypos!!!...... Thanks Beau my faithful little friend!!!
 
This is a great story and I think you may be right.... Dogs are incredible animals.

Great to see you recovered.
 
Glad to hear your ok @Postleneo well done to your super dog for being amazing
 
I believe my 3yr old senses my hypos too. He wakes everytime I have a hypo. Only trouble is he wants attention at the same time as I do!
He gets louder and louder. The whole house gets woken up.
No secrets in my house! Ha ha
 
Give that dog a bone!

There's a few companies who train dogs to sense lows and highs. I mentioned it to some people at work and they're now mad keen on the idea of me having an alert dog running round the office! Nothing to do with my health, they just want a wee pup running around the place!
 

You sound like you have an absolute "keeper!"

By sharp comparison... Not all have the "gift."
http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/maybe-the-worst-hypo-alert-dog-ever.104497/
 
That's a brilliant dog you've got there. Mine wouldn't have the attention span to be able to detect a hypo, I'd be better off with a fish doing it!
 
My daughters dog woke me one night during a hypo when I was dog sitting, he kept licking my arms and wouldn't leave me alone until I realised what was happening to me. I thought it was a fluke but he did it the other day. I knew this time that I was having one and was drinking my Ribena and he came and sat in front of me and started licking my arms again. What a clever chap he is.
 
Amazing dog and im very happy ur fine ! Mine used to wake me up every morning. Now since i took in a cat she passed the job to the kitten. They both r very smart, but i still prefer my dog barking and licking my arm than my cat scratching my face, probably just for his own fun. :'D
 
I truly believe that dogs are a (wo)man's best friend and we've had a number of other threads about untrained dogs warnings and constant attention when heir owners have had hypos.

Robbity
PS @LorraineIves: I could steal your gorgeous beautiful girl, I really could!!
 
Glad you're okay @Postleneo ! Gold star and a cuddle for your very cute dog!

Obviously dogs can be trained to alert to hypos, but I really do think there is something in it about them being able to 'smell' hypos - or hypers. One of my aunt's dogs, whenever I am above about 12 ish, will not leave my feet alone. He goes insane. The other one doesn't care! He's a rescue dog, so we can't be exactly sure about his background, but you can pretty much guarantee he hasn't had any training of that sort.

Can't wait to not live in a flat so I can have a dog
 
I remember watching the Supervet - there was a lab on there who was a duel purpose guide dog/seizure alert dog. There was also a young woman who used to have severe allergic reactions to changes in temperature and she had a dog who was going to be trained - who had already alerted her to problems without being trained to do so. They are amazing.
 
Great heat warming story.
Gareth Williams and Mimi Chen published about dogs spotting hypos in the BMJ about 10-15 years ago, but I do not think it was ever taken further. Also a series of dogs who spotted owners bladder cancer! Amazing. best wsihes
 
I've read about the Libre CGM on these boards. IMO it's a BAD device if it won't wake you with your cell phone when you start to get low. Maybe that's why the Libre isn't available in the US. We have the Dexcom and it pairs with any number of cell phones, not with BT but over the network, so it can not only ring the user's phone but their parent(s) as well whenever the BG goes below 75mg/dl. That's saved my friends' 12 year old son on more than one occasion as he got started on his insulin last year. What good is a CGM if it doesn't alert you at the most crucial times? I'd ditch it and get a Dexcom ASAP.
 
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