place to talk about scary lows (and highs)

[GlitterSparkles]

Hi i made the to talk about scary lows and high blood sugar i dont go high to offten so i will talk about my lowest low so i was at my nan and grandads with my mum (my nan is also diabetic) and i was just sitting on there sofa playing with there dog and talking to everyone and i felt a bit shaky but me be stupid just said probley nothing but it carried on and the i went to my mums bag took the test kit out and went into there kitchen to test because that was the closest sink and where i saw it it sait 2.8 and i was terrified as the was the lowest it had been ever (this was when i was on insulin) so i went back to my family and told / showed my mum and because my nan is diabetic alot of there stuff was sugar free so i ended up just eating haribo and digestive biscuts.

anyway thats my scaryest low tell me about your lows and highs

 

[alphabeta]

My scariest highs were 2. Once I forgot to bolus for a carb heavy meal and went to take a nap (after lunch) and the glucometer just read "HI"... This was years ago. A week earlier, I injected my bolus for dinner and ta daaa. I caught a vessel apparently so I had to eat loads of sugar and juice.. my BG went up to 18 after 2 hours but it kept shooting up to HI once again... as for my lows, I pre bolused for lunch which was supposed to take place at my uncle's. Back then I used Actrapid as a bolus. My sugar was 6.4 before taking insulin but being shy 13 yo kid, I should have started eating by the time I arrived. I chose not to but to wait for everyone else. Long story short I needed sugar cubes to relieve my anxiety (didn't have my glucometer) and it was definitely a scene... not the best experience and it still haunts me.

 

[Knikki]

Scary highs and lows? sure I have had some of those during the 70's but the last one I remember was last November.

Had pizza before going out in the evening and was running on the high side, this is before I got Libre.

Running in the plus 10 all night and when I came home, somewhere round about 11:30pm, checked bloods 15.5 ~sigh~

So injected a correction amount and went to bed.

Next thing I know is a two paramedics shouting at me and sticking a canular in the vein on my hand, not nice and something like 2 hours and at least 750mls of dextrose glucose mix and a jam sandwich later I was deemed OK by the paramedics and they left.

They were nice.

Before all this I had sat bolt upright with all the muscles in my back set on mega high tension, breathing rapidly and very erratically and scared the living daylights out of my now wife

Thinking back instead of only injecting 5units of NovaRapid I had shoved 15units in, don't ask why, I, to this day, have no idea why.

Shan't make that mistake again.

 

[Member496333]

I remember the first time I saw 4.4 after what must have been a decade in double figures.

Thought I was dying. I’ve never felt sicker before or since

 

[JohnEGreen]

I've had a few brushes with low sugar levels a couple weren't scary as I knew not a lot about them except for waking up lying on the bedroom floor with concerned family trying to get me off the floor but I suppose the scariest for me was a couple of months ago or so when testing my bloods in the late after noon because of not feeling too well and got a reading of 2.2 retested a couple of times thinking error but got the same reading on two meters that did scare me a little. Understatement.

Edit wow leave the n out of month and you've got moth.

 

[NicoleC1971]

How low can you go? I stumbled into the kitchen once and hit my head trying to treat my hypo resulting in husband calling out the paramedics. They tested me and told my husband that my blood sugar was high thus implying that he was a wife beater. Their tone changed when he pointed out that my paws were covered in honey and I was indeed legitimately hypo.

Now have fsl and have seen LO once or twice which I assume to mean lower than 2? Don't seem to need much to treat it though (unplug pump, glug a little lucosade). No biscuits needed.

HIGHS - ran at 21.6 for what felt like days during a recent infection and yes I've seen HI a few times too. Luckily I do not seem to make many ketones. Ketoacidosis happened to me twice and was truly terrifying.
Whatever we think of Mrs May imagine managing your type 1 through the last 2 years of Brexit chaos or going hypo in a cabinet meeting! Maybe she was low when she launched into Mr Juncker the other day. Irrational aggression or irritation is a sign for me anyway!

 

[KK123]

How low can you go? I stumbled into the kitchen once and hit my head trying to treat my hypo resulting in husband calling out the paramedics. They tested me and told my husband that my blood sugar was high thus implying that he was a wife beater. Their tone changed when he pointed out that my paws were covered in honey and I was indeed legitimately hypo.

Now have fsl and have seen LO once or twice which I assume to mean lower than 2? Don't seem to need much to treat it though (unplug pump, glug a little lucosade). No biscuits needed.

HIGHS - ran at 21.6 for what felt like days during a recent infection and yes I've seen HI a few times too. Luckily I do not seem to make many ketones. Ketoacidosis happened to me twice and was truly terrifying.
Whatever we think of Mrs May imagine managing your type 1 through the last 2 years of Brexit chaos or going hypo in a cabinet meeting! Maybe she was low when she launched into Mr Juncker the other day. Irrational aggression or irritation is a sign for me anyway!

Love the Mrs May bit, what a fab excuse for telling someone at work what you really think!

 

[NicoleC1971]

Love the Mrs May bit, what a fab excuse for telling someone at work what you really think!

Yep though unsure it will stand up in court!

 

[JAT1]

My worse was 1.8. Thought I was dying. Then ate too much and soared which felt even worse. Fortunately now I catch my hypos in the 3s and then just eat enough fruit to top up without going out of orbit. Thanks to what I have learned from all of you on this forum.

 

[Scott-C]

Yep though unsure it will stand up in court!

Hypos have come up as a topic in quite a few courts and tribunals.

I've read some of the judgments, and the level of understanding (or, rather, misunderstanding), and the way things are put across to the judge about the basic biology is absolutely appalling, grossly misleading. I've seen a few where I've thought, ooyah, I wish I'd been running that instead of these muppets.

Bailii, British and Irish Legal Information Institute, works with the court systems across the UK, and publishes a wide variety of judgments from all levels.

https://www.bailii.org

There's stuff tucked in there about non-insane automatism as a defence to crashing while hypo (which explains why sticking to the 5 to drive rule will broadly help peeps if they kill someone with their car), Equality Act reasonable adjustments, and a teacher who got away with looking at porn at work because he was 2.4!

 

[Scott-C]

One of the worst I've had was about 10 yrs ago, waking up totally saturated in cold sweat, had rolled out of bed onto the floor, heating was off because of house repairs, very cold winter, so I was basically out of it on the floor, shivering, feeling like hypothermia was setting in, dragged myself to the shower and sat under the lovely warmth till I heated up again. Ooyah, that was a nasty one. Note to self after that one: if I've been out for a few beers, have some cheese on toast before going to bed.

 

[sleepster]

I did a blood test once and my meter said 0.5, had a massive panic and wondered how I was still conscious, I think it might've been caused by the not-yet-dry alcohol gel on my hands though

 

[alf_Josiah]

Understand your concern best ignore and carry on with another test