Kansenji
Well-Known Member
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- 76
- Location
- Winscombe, Somerset, U.K.
- Type of diabetes
- Treatment type
- Insulin
- Dislikes
- Being obese.
Due to an unintended 2½ hour delay between having my insulin & eating food yesterday, I experienced the following:
I was with my wife in a Lidl store and started to get some advanced warning of a Hypo. I first experienced problems with my vision but was not very concerned as typically that would give me about 20 minutes before I would start sweating profusely, in which case I would treat myself immediately, on reaching my car. Unfortunately the sweating started a few minutes later and I was about to digest some glucose tablets I carry in a pocket when STRANGE things happened to me.
My eyes started flicking rapidly and uncontrollably from side to side. Then my head also started shaking violently from side to side, followed by my arms and hands flailing about. My legs shook and I quickly collapsed in a heap on the floor just as my wife, two customers and two staff members rushed to my aid. I managed to retrieve my glucose tablets from a pocket and my wife fed me three of them. I was still shaking about on the floor and had great difficulty in speaking when a female customer asked me if she could get me a bottle of Lucozade; (Wow, she knew EXACTLY what was needed!) I managed to thank her but said that my glucose tablets should do their work within a few minutes & that I wouldn't need the Lucozade. The two staff members were enlightened as to my plight. They asked if I would like a chair and glass of water, which they quickly provided; one of them them also helped my wife lift me into the chair. The glucose tablets took about 10 minutes to make me recover just enough to be able to exit the store & reach my medical bag in the car. I discovered that my blood glucose was still low at 3.4, so I drank a little more than half of the bottle of Lucozade that I always keep in the car, followed by some chocolate bought in Lidl. Twenty minutes later, we both ate a meal in the local Costa store. However, I was still shaking a bit & my speech was a bit garbled.
What I would like to know is, has anyone else ever had such dramatic & strange Hypo symptoms? I would like to explain that I have THIRTY different medical conditions and take THIRTY ONE different prescribed medicines. I have developed very serious heart rhythm problems that have triggered "mini" T.I.A's (small strokes lasting 3 to 5 seconds that stop me being able to speak at all). Indeed I am about to have a heart operation called an Ablation which should soon sort most of my heart problems out.
So I am wondering, were my symptoms induced directly by he Hypo, or did my low blood sugar trigger problems with my heart or brain, which in turn caused these symptoms?
I was with my wife in a Lidl store and started to get some advanced warning of a Hypo. I first experienced problems with my vision but was not very concerned as typically that would give me about 20 minutes before I would start sweating profusely, in which case I would treat myself immediately, on reaching my car. Unfortunately the sweating started a few minutes later and I was about to digest some glucose tablets I carry in a pocket when STRANGE things happened to me.
My eyes started flicking rapidly and uncontrollably from side to side. Then my head also started shaking violently from side to side, followed by my arms and hands flailing about. My legs shook and I quickly collapsed in a heap on the floor just as my wife, two customers and two staff members rushed to my aid. I managed to retrieve my glucose tablets from a pocket and my wife fed me three of them. I was still shaking about on the floor and had great difficulty in speaking when a female customer asked me if she could get me a bottle of Lucozade; (Wow, she knew EXACTLY what was needed!) I managed to thank her but said that my glucose tablets should do their work within a few minutes & that I wouldn't need the Lucozade. The two staff members were enlightened as to my plight. They asked if I would like a chair and glass of water, which they quickly provided; one of them them also helped my wife lift me into the chair. The glucose tablets took about 10 minutes to make me recover just enough to be able to exit the store & reach my medical bag in the car. I discovered that my blood glucose was still low at 3.4, so I drank a little more than half of the bottle of Lucozade that I always keep in the car, followed by some chocolate bought in Lidl. Twenty minutes later, we both ate a meal in the local Costa store. However, I was still shaking a bit & my speech was a bit garbled.
What I would like to know is, has anyone else ever had such dramatic & strange Hypo symptoms? I would like to explain that I have THIRTY different medical conditions and take THIRTY ONE different prescribed medicines. I have developed very serious heart rhythm problems that have triggered "mini" T.I.A's (small strokes lasting 3 to 5 seconds that stop me being able to speak at all). Indeed I am about to have a heart operation called an Ablation which should soon sort most of my heart problems out.
So I am wondering, were my symptoms induced directly by he Hypo, or did my low blood sugar trigger problems with my heart or brain, which in turn caused these symptoms?
