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Unusual hypo.

leslie10152

leslie10152

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On the 8th of July, while on a shift, I was caught by a minor hypo. The strange thing about it was the remarkable persistance in trying to correct it. Normally I am recovered with 10-15 minutes, but this lasted over half an hour! I was a particularly severe event, but it really unraveled me for a time.
 
Sorry to hear you took longer to recover than your usual. My endocrinologist advised me that half an hour is the minimum to recover from a hypo... even if it is a mild one. I've taken hours to recover from hypos though sometimes. For me I may feel fine after 15-20 mins but I know I'm not fine until that half hour mark because it's our judgment that goes first and is the last thing to return my endo explained to me.... he said I'm not supposed to drive or make any decision to put myself or others at risk during that half hour.
 
Happened an hour after my lunch a few months ago, had eaten exactly the same as tbe day before the only difference on this particular day was I was going to my partner's grans funeral, 10 minutes before I'm due to get picked up my legs get wobbly and tested at 3.2 running about getting picked up etc got to 3.7 had another JB next check back down to 3.0 was most embarrassing at the crematorium finally got back above 4 around an hour later after 7-8 jelly babies but felt like a bus had hit me for the rest of the day! Worst one I've had x
 
I think that illustrates perfectly why D is so difficult to stay in control - similar food, events , activities and measurements but Bm widely varies. I find it most depressing when I've done everything right but then get a reading that is way off what I would have expected. I've had T1 for over 30 years and should really be getting the hang of it now.
 
Johnr57 said:
I think that illustrates perfectly why D is so difficult to stay in control - similar food, events , activities and measurements but Bm widely varies. I find it most depressing when I've done everything right but then get a reading that is way off what I would have expected. I've had T1 for over 30 years and should really be getting the hang of it now.
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I concur with you and this is my 28th year. I had a bad hypo on a train last week, tested at 5.3 before I got on the train, my teen was with me and she noticed something wasn't right. So she tested me and it said 2.8, ate sweets and after that I don't remember much at all. My teen said I was near unresponsive, but she was feeding me food, sweets and glucose tablets and I was chewing ( I don't remember ) My teen said if I was on my own, I would of ended up in London and unconscious. It was a day out and very hot, I did take less Insulin too, diabetes can be like a roller coaster.
 
kaylz91 said:
I was going to my partner's grans funeral,
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That happened to me once. My then girlfriend's best female friend died tragically young. I'd been racing around in the car picking up mourners, lunch was going to be much later, tail end of some earlier breakfast insulin started kicking in about half way through the ceremony, we were sitting in the middle of a packed aisle so couldn't discretely sneak out, so ended up having half a Mars bar in the middle of it.

The deceased, L, was a lovely mix of caring and dark sense of humour, so my ex was really good about it: she said L would have said, "don't care if it's my funeral, S needs some sugar now, so he'll have some sugar now" and then she said L would have been wetting her pants laughing at me sitting there at her funeral scoffing Mars bars. The ex said L was quite fond of them herself so would have seen it as a worthy tribute!
 
Just out of curiosity - could these worse than usual hypos be at times when you were a bit dehydrated as well?
I was just thinking (I know - dangerous) that the response time, could be affected by taking a drink of water, like a glass full, not pints, if you were a bit under hydrated it would speed things up to have some dilution of stomach contents.
 
Resurgam said:
Just out of curiosity - could these worse than usual hypos be at times when you were a bit dehydrated as well?
I was just thinking (I know - dangerous) that the response time, could be affected by taking a drink of water, like a glass full, not pints, if you were a bit under hydrated it would speed things up to have some dilution of stomach contents.
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Actually that is quite a perceptive observation. Sometimes I forget to keep my hydration levels up and get really parched. Around hypos I sometimes get raging thirsts.
 
Scott-C said:
That happened to me once. My then girlfriend's best female friend died tragically young. I'd been racing around in the car picking up mourners, lunch was going to be much later, tail end of some earlier breakfast insulin started kicking in about half way through the ceremony, we were sitting in the middle of a packed aisle so couldn't discretely sneak out, so ended up having half a Mars bar in the middle of it.

The deceased, L, was a lovely mix of caring and dark sense of humour, so my ex was really good about it: she said L would have said, "don't care if it's my funeral, S needs some sugar now, so he'll have some sugar now" and then she said L would have been wetting her pants laughing at me sitting there at her funeral scoffing Mars bars. The ex said L was quite fond of them herself so would have seen it as a worthy tribute!
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I can see the funny side in that. I have been in similar situations where I was desparate for glucose or fluids.
 
Robinredbreast said:
I concur with you and this is my 28th year. I had a bad hypo on a train last week, tested at 5.3 before I got on the train, my teen was with me and she noticed something wasn't right. So she tested me and it said 2.8, ate sweets and after that I don't remember much at all. My teen said I was near unresponsive, but she was feeding me food, sweets and glucose tablets and I was chewing ( I don't remember ) My teen said if I was on my own, I would of ended up in London and unconscious. It was a day out and very hot, I did take less Insulin too, diabetes can be like a roller coaster.
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It will catch you out at every turn. Nothing more embarrassing than wandering off to La La Land in mid sentence!
 
kaylz91 said:
Happened an hour after my lunch a few months ago, had eaten exactly the same as tbe day before the only difference on this particular day was I was going to my partner's grans funeral, 10 minutes before I'm due to get picked up my legs get wobbly and tested at 3.2 running about getting picked up etc got to 3.7 had another JB next check back down to 3.0 was most embarrassing at the crematorium finally got back above 4 around an hour later after 7-8 jelly babies but felt like a bus had hit me for the rest of the day! Worst one I've had x
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Thank God it turned out well.
 
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