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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alanem" data-source="post: 405542" data-attributes="member: 22927">HiI’m T2 and this happened to me a few years ago and I only found out when the specialist nurse was showing me how to use my new meter and I was at 2.1.  Up till then I didn’t have any idea I was getting so low.  She went ballistic as all the records from my annual check were showing good control.   She took me away from my GP and made me measure at least 4 times per day.   I had to keep a diary and I had to see her on a weekly basis with my readings.   She wanted me to increase my BG and was not anxious if it went to 11.  Wonderful!!!   After 6 weeks she decided, but I don’t know what prompted her, that I had then got to get my BG back under control.   The problem I now have and I suspect there will many like me, I don’t know if my hypo awareness is satisfactory as whenever I check my BG it is always 5.0 - 7.0…I know lucky me but that takes a lot of hard work on my part and also my wife .   I suppose I could starve myself and induce a hypo or measure all day but then what?   I’d rather keep away from them anyway.   I know lots of people will say one day something serious could happen if you don’t know you’re having a hypo and all I can do is be aware of every new change in feeling I experience and ask myself.  Is it a hypo?  Get something inside me just in case and see if the feeling goes away.   If it did I would then talk to somebody post haste.  If it doesn't...it wasn't a hypo and remember it for next time.</blockquote>

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