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<blockquote data-quote="Gloucestergirl" data-source="post: 1970874" data-attributes="member: 54959"><p>When I was first diagnosed in 1995 with a sugar level of 22 and was put onto tablets I often thought my levels felt low with confusion, sweating, shaking, heart palpitations etc. yet when I checked it was NINE! My body was so used to high sugar levels that even a small drop would make me want to have glucose but it had to be ignored, however horrible it felt as there was no way I was hypo. Eventually I just had the symptoms at normal hypo levels. However, having said that, I also went through a phase of losing my hypo symptoms and would often check my blood and find that it had dropped to 2.5 or even lower and yet have absolutely no symptoms at all. The very lowest I went was while I was on holiday abroad when I got up in the night and managed to stagger to get my meter and found I had gone down to 1.5 but thankfully I had glucose and my levels went back up but that was very frightening, especially being in a foreign country. I was told by the diabetes nurse to let my levels run high for a while to get back the hypo symptoms and they did come back. Incidentally, my friend who has diabetes as well as myself would often feel hypo and yet our levels were high not low so we learnt to check rather than assuming we were hypo.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gloucestergirl, post: 1970874, member: 54959"] When I was first diagnosed in 1995 with a sugar level of 22 and was put onto tablets I often thought my levels felt low with confusion, sweating, shaking, heart palpitations etc. yet when I checked it was NINE! My body was so used to high sugar levels that even a small drop would make me want to have glucose but it had to be ignored, however horrible it felt as there was no way I was hypo. Eventually I just had the symptoms at normal hypo levels. However, having said that, I also went through a phase of losing my hypo symptoms and would often check my blood and find that it had dropped to 2.5 or even lower and yet have absolutely no symptoms at all. The very lowest I went was while I was on holiday abroad when I got up in the night and managed to stagger to get my meter and found I had gone down to 1.5 but thankfully I had glucose and my levels went back up but that was very frightening, especially being in a foreign country. I was told by the diabetes nurse to let my levels run high for a while to get back the hypo symptoms and they did come back. Incidentally, my friend who has diabetes as well as myself would often feel hypo and yet our levels were high not low so we learnt to check rather than assuming we were hypo. [/QUOTE]
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