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<blockquote data-quote="Auckland Canary" data-source="post: 1226363" data-attributes="member: 70613"><p>Unfortunately I have had numerous episodes of these over the years. I went through ha particularly bad stage about 5 years ago when issues in my life were causing me to become very defensive about my diabetes and refusing help. I was actually self harming by using my blood sugars to stay at ridiculously low levels .I was honestly walking around for days at a time with levels around 2-3 mmol and sometimes in the 1's. Bizarrely I was still functioning (just about) although I would often get confused and irrational. I don't really want to go into details about what was going on but I was in a spectacularly bad head space at the time which thankfully I am away from now. I also was not that clued up about dosage and carb counting despite being T1 for over 30 years and I now realise that I was taking huge amounts more insulin than was required.</p><p></p><p>However I find the hypo's fell into 2 categories. The first are the ones where you just slip into unconsciousness and aren't really aware of how it has happened. You just come round (sometimes helped or sometimes on your own) and it is just like being asleep. I have found myself walking down a street before and then just waking up somewhere else with no real memory of how I got there or sometimes where I was. I would just take glucose and carry on. In a way I am fortunate that I have had so many they just don't freak me out any more although they are not pleasant.</p><p></p><p>The 2nd type are the worst ones. Generally I would get them while I was asleep and then my wife or paramedics would bring me round. I would describe them like "mental drowning". I would have very brief flashes of consciousness but everything was blurred and confused. I would realise that something was desperately desperately wrong but could not rationalise what it was. I would often be aware of horrible tastes or pain (usually gluogel in my mouth or glucagon injections in my leg and cannulas in my wrists) but could not figure them out. These for me were horrible and to me they are my version of being trapped in hell. They emotionally and physically exhaust you and left me with feelings of guilt and remorse.</p><p></p><p>As I say I am quite an extreme case and I have come on a long way since I have been like that. My hypo awareness is very compromised nowadays but I do everything I can to keep my levels stable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Auckland Canary, post: 1226363, member: 70613"] Unfortunately I have had numerous episodes of these over the years. I went through ha particularly bad stage about 5 years ago when issues in my life were causing me to become very defensive about my diabetes and refusing help. I was actually self harming by using my blood sugars to stay at ridiculously low levels .I was honestly walking around for days at a time with levels around 2-3 mmol and sometimes in the 1's. Bizarrely I was still functioning (just about) although I would often get confused and irrational. I don't really want to go into details about what was going on but I was in a spectacularly bad head space at the time which thankfully I am away from now. I also was not that clued up about dosage and carb counting despite being T1 for over 30 years and I now realise that I was taking huge amounts more insulin than was required. However I find the hypo's fell into 2 categories. The first are the ones where you just slip into unconsciousness and aren't really aware of how it has happened. You just come round (sometimes helped or sometimes on your own) and it is just like being asleep. I have found myself walking down a street before and then just waking up somewhere else with no real memory of how I got there or sometimes where I was. I would just take glucose and carry on. In a way I am fortunate that I have had so many they just don't freak me out any more although they are not pleasant. The 2nd type are the worst ones. Generally I would get them while I was asleep and then my wife or paramedics would bring me round. I would describe them like "mental drowning". I would have very brief flashes of consciousness but everything was blurred and confused. I would realise that something was desperately desperately wrong but could not rationalise what it was. I would often be aware of horrible tastes or pain (usually gluogel in my mouth or glucagon injections in my leg and cannulas in my wrists) but could not figure them out. These for me were horrible and to me they are my version of being trapped in hell. They emotionally and physically exhaust you and left me with feelings of guilt and remorse. As I say I am quite an extreme case and I have come on a long way since I have been like that. My hypo awareness is very compromised nowadays but I do everything I can to keep my levels stable. [/QUOTE]
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