Need to watch my mouth when my BG starts to drop

Do you have a really good friend on your team who could ask you to test if you seem um, strident in your opinions?
I have asked my team to try and get me to test "if I seem more mad than usual". Luckily my first sign is odd vision but it is nice to know that if I was a bit odd they might think hypo rather than "drunk" or whatever.

Sue81 said:

My team are aware but the person who used to point it out is no longer with the business. I think my current team are a bit scared to mention it in case it turns out not to be the cause.

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That made me laugh! I guess they would have to be a very good friend to point out that you were being evil.

I can relate to that! When I was a teenager I could be really nasty when hypo, on the odd occasion as a forty something I can still be short with family and such! I work for myself, but I still find being alone, I can get short tempered with not being able to do things that I need to be able to finish.
That feeling you get that you should be able to finish just this before dealing with your hypo, never works, but I still try! I feel an overwhelming desire to ignore it out of pigheadedness! A couple of weeks ago I lot my rag with my 18 year old son, I had had a couple of drinks in the afternoon whilst cooking dinner and he was being a teenager (they do know it all) and I jumped right into an argument which is unlike me! Minutes after I realise I was hypo.
I'm not as angry with the world as I was when I was a teenager but that bad temper still rears it's ugly head from time to time!
Yes just another quirk I guess,
I don't know what the bad tempered rest of society's excuse is cos there's plenty of them!! x

Diakat said:

I have asked my team to try and get me to test "if I seem more mad than usual".

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Diakat, love the way you've put that! It should be standard phrasing in HR and first-aiders text books! "Primary indicators of hypoglycaemic episodes: madder than usual."

Scott-C said:

Diakat, love the way you've put that! It should be standard phrasing in HR and first-aiders text books! "Primary indicators of hypoglycaemic episodes: madder than usual."

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Thanks. It was just that having read some accounts of very bad hypos I was trying to think of a non-terrifying way of saying if I start to sweat profusely and run away from imaginary characters I am not on LSD, I am hypo. If I remove items of clothing, I am not harassing you, I am hypo. If I swear at you then I am probably hypo, if I swear about something I am probably ok.

I can luckily say I just get sharp, no matter how low I get.
Not abusive.
I wouldnt dream of talking to people unless I have no choice about my hypo, I'm experiencing. My problem unless I go unconcious which I makes sure it doesn't go that far. However I am a type2. Type1s don't get that luxury, sometimes.

I've actually been wondering about this - the T1 I care for can tend to (occasionally) get either extremely emotional or angry when hypo. Luckily I can recognize it on her face now! "There's that 'low' look...."

One of my hypo symptoms is a desire to rip the throat out of people who look at me, talk to me, or breathe near me. It's a dead give away.

Fortunately, I am getting hypos less and less often (better control with keto) AND I now have an auto response of 'that person is so annoying I want to kill them - must be hypo - NEED FOOD'

Mind you, it has taken a while (decades) to develop that response...

Brunneria said:

One of my hypo symptoms is a desire to rip the throat out of people who look at me, talk to me, or breathe near me. It's a dead give away.

Fortunately, I am getting hypos less and less often (better control with keto) AND I now have an auto response of 'that person is so annoying I want to kill them - must be hypo - NEED FOOD'

Mind you, it has taken a while (decades) to develop that response...

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Carry a medic alert card and the business card of a good criminal defence lawyer....

Brunneria said:

One of my hypo symptoms is a desire to rip the throat out of people who look at me, talk to me, or breathe near me. It's a dead give away.

Fortunately, I am getting hypos less and less often (better control with keto) AND I now have an auto response of 'that person is so annoying I want to kill them - must be hypo - NEED FOOD'

Mind you, it has taken a while (decades) to develop that response...

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If so you masked it very well the other day.

If my BG is high I get tetchy if low I get tetchy in fact I just get tetchy.