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Jaylee said:

Hi @Erin ,

What insulin/s are you prescribed?

There are many subtle warning symtoms regarding an oncoming low. Which depends on the indevidual experience?
For me, there are flickering lights or a haze in the lower field of vision, coupled with the feeling of walking into a room & forgetting why? This is the start of cognitive dysfunction before any "classic" symptoms set in...

Ultimatly, I still need to check with a meter to find out where I'm at & a reasonable course of treatment.

Regarding the heart & articles on pubmed you mentioned. It's a muscle. I suppose it is possible in extreme hypoglycemic cases it's optimal function could be affected as blood sugars drop to the point of seizure?

But then I've experinced some wild lows over the years & have never had chest pains.

The secret is to keep calm, & not to panic. Always have glucos to hand..

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Juicyj said:

Hello @Erin

Would there be anyway you could self fund a system such as the Dexcom G6 which would alert you to falling glucose levels ? or speak to your team about support with a continuous glucose meter ? I don't know anything about the link between low glucose levels and cardiac failure, I am aware of an increase in heart rate during a hypo so would suspect it's related to this.

Ideally a CGM would help you greatly under the circumstances.

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Juicyj said:

Hello @Erin

Would there be anyway you could self fund a system such as the Dexcom G6 which would alert you to falling glucose levels ? or speak to your team about support with a continuous glucose meter ? I don't know anything about the link between low glucose levels and cardiac failure, I am aware of an increase in heart rate during a hypo so would suspect it's related to this.

Ideally a CGM would help you greatly under the circumstances.

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Juicyj said:

Hi Erin here’s my overnight snapshot from the G6, my alarm went off at 3.45am as I went low - I had a sweaty hypo so got up did glucotabs and a few slices of bread (in my confusion decided it was time for breakfast) but also had enough sense to also take a bolus to cover extra carbs and woke to 7.3mmol/l.

I hear you when you say you don’t mind hypers but.. I take a different point of view as I know this is where the hidden damage occurs so to me the G6 keeps me on track, my biggest fear is going blind so my investment in using this system is to help this fear from ever being realised. I prefer to be 5-9 mmol/l.

Before using this system I could easily run overnight in the teens, now I aim to wake in range and keep my levels more stable where I can.

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NewlyLADA said:

I have the Dexicom G6 and it is amazing I set it at 95 (5.2) for going low and 200 (11.11)for going high this helps me to avoid dropping lower. Hypos are very scary to me as well and my heart hearts if I’m high and it also hurts when I’m low, my brain is mush as well and I tend to over eat waiting for it to go up as well then I end up high, however I would way rather be high then low, you can see by my graph that is what I did today. I get scared because when I’m low I tend to drop before it starts to rise. The Drs have tested my heart and said it is fine.
Do you also have issues with heat like warm weather or hot baths?
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Knikki said:

The problem lies with the bodies inability to get rid of glucose, this is if you do not have insulin to cover things, if you run constantly high for long periods of time the glucose can't be metabolised and sits in the blood and travels around your body.

The main issue with that is that they are crystals and crystals are large and have sharp bits on them, which if they travel into the (which are normally only one cell thick) can damage and rupture them.

This is most commonly seen in things like retinopathy or kidney damage something you see around the forum. This is usually caused by running high numbers for a long period of time.

Short runs, because us T1 fluctuate, are not an issue usually they are spikes which can be dealt with.

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Knikki said:

The body does not the sugar drops out of solution, hence crystals.

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Knikki said:

The body does not the sugar drops out of solution, hence crystals.

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Erin said:

Nice work NewlyLADA. I agree with yournumber setting. I think that is comfortable after 10 years of sulfamynarides. I guess as the years go by your diabetes gets worse. My dr. did not want me to continue with pills, e.g. I suggested to go to Glyburide instead of Glyclazide. For some reason they cut the dose of Glyclazide and the Metformin a year or so ago. And I think the numbers went higher then. But someone told them that my kidneys would be affected. Hmmm. I am glad you were tested for your heart and you are OK, despite the hypos. I think continuous hypos may have an effect though. As for heat, I have noticed I actually feel colder if I am low. I don't mean to say that hyper is great either, with the headaches and such but they are just not as disabling as the hypos. If we're lucky Big Pharma will come up with something expensive.

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