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Reaction to hypo

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jetsetcarwash

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Morning everyone, new to this site (but not type 1, diagnosed when I was 15, 40 years ago!).
I have seen many changes to the treatment but am still occasionally surprised.
Does anyone else react in different ways to hypos with no real explanation? I often start to feel a bit daft at BGs of 3.5 but can other times find myself acting perfectly normally at 1.3
 
Morning and welcome to the forum. Yes I agree completely, I can even feel daft at 4.2 and then fine at 2.8 (can't say for sure if i've ever hit 1.3 - that's low). Do you know what caused it ?
 
Same here! I've also been 1.3 (in a period of many hypos) and more or less fine. (27 years type 1) I can feel hypo at 4.5. No real explanation here, sorry!
 
Same here. I have felt a bit hypo then tested and found I was in the 4's then tested a few minutes later to be low 3's.
I have also felt completely fine at 1.2 before now.

Agree... very odd :)
 
Woke up this morning - cgm says 5.4, and I feel fine (and slightly smug, hey, no one's perfect).

Calibrated cgm and a blood test says 2.9, so I had Gluco tabs. Still feeling fine!

Went to get breakfast and a cup of tea. It was when I threw a tea bag into the frying pan and had to think for a few seconds about what exactly wasn't quite right that I realised that 'fine' is sometimes a relative concept.

I still maintain that how fast I'm dropping makes hypos worse that how low I go.
 
yes, I've noticed that too. I can feel fine if I'm 3.5 and I'm resting. But if I'm moving about and I'm 3.5 I know about it. Also I can feel fine at 4.5 and other times I don't feel fine at all. My first hypo I walked into a wall and tested at 4.2. I definitely don't feel fine in the low 2's though no matter what I'm doing. One of my weird hypo symptoms when walking is I suddenly pull to the left when my sugar drops and I've walked into quite a few things like that, mostly whilst shopping... I've knocked things off shelves, etc. Also at times can't feel my feet on the ground either. I can be any level from 4.5 or below when I get these symptoms. I get the usual shakes, sweating, nausea, panic attack as well. But yes... I react different depending on what I'm doing I think.
 
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