Mandy

[Mandy J]

Hope I am doing this correctly. I have been diabetic for 18 years now and have a good rapport with my diabetic professor at St James's hospital in Leeds. I have been told by my GP that if my HbA1C is any lower I would be considered a none diabetic, which I think is excellent, BUT worry sometimes when my sugar levels are low a lot. I do not get the symptoms like I used to at the beginning, and I know these can change over the years but it does concern me when I take my blood and it is 1.9 for instance and I feel quite normal.

 

[robert72]

Hi Mandy and welcome to the forum.

To get your hypo-awareness symptoms back, you'll need to run you BGs a bit higher for a few months. Try to aim for 6 or over and hopefully awareness should improve.

 

[Jill the tt]

Hope I am doing this correctly. I have been diabetic for 18 years now and have a good rapport with my diabetic professor at St James's hospital in Leeds. I have been told by my GP that if my HbA1C is any lower I would be considered a none diabetic, which I think is excellent, BUT worry sometimes when my sugar levels are low a lot. I do not get the symptoms like I used to at the beginning, and I know these can change over the years but it does concern me when I take my blood and it is 1.9 for instance and I feel quite normal.

hi, i'm new to this so can't help much, but lots of people here will, so don't worry
Jill

 

[this is too difficult]

Hi Mandy. welcome to the forum. 1.9 seems very low. does that happen often?

 

[ConradJ]

Hope I am doing this correctly. I have been diabetic for 18 years now and have a good rapport with my diabetic professor at St James's hospital in Leeds. I have been told by my GP that if my HbA1C is any lower I would be considered a none diabetic, which I think is excellent, BUT worry sometimes when my sugar levels are low a lot. I do not get the symptoms like I used to at the beginning, and I know these can change over the years but it does concern me when I take my blood and it is 1.9 for instance and I feel quite normal.

Speak with your GP about a CGM: if you're losing hypo awareness, you could use that as a reason for getting one as they can give out warnings if your safety thresholds are being broken. You could also consider requesting Islet cell transplants as they've been done in other people with symptoms like yours.

The standard practice is usually to recommend raising your BGs for a while to allow your body to readjust, but the latest evidence on HbA1c and complications shows that the NICE targets may be too high to prevent the development of complications. If you get nowhere with your GP, speak with your diabetes professor.

 

[ConradJ]

That's not normal, with 1.9, you shouldn't feel normal, but it happen to people, I had a fiver once, that was 104^F and I was feeling quite normal.

Yes, isn't it strange: sometimes, when I'm 'crashing' and I test, the result can be something like 5.5mmol/l, and yet at other times when I test and discover I'm 3.2 or less, I can be feeling absolutely normal! The other day I was 2.1, yet felt ok (a little elated / happy), yet a few hours later I felt I was going really low, tested and the result was 3.9!