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<blockquote data-quote="LittleSue" data-source="post: 107726" data-attributes="member: 6295"><p>Yes, hypos and hypers DO kill. </p><p></p><p>Going "low" (around 4) won't kill him, but previous posts suggest your husband's been much lower than this and paramedics have had to rescue him? That's a different matter.</p><p></p><p>Normally if you go hypo without waking up, the liver rescues you by dumping glucose into the bloodstream and you wake up with high sugar and a headache at breakfast time. But there's a limit, the liver needs to replenish itself before it can "dump" again, so may not be ready to cope with the next hypo. Also if there is alcohol in the body, the liver will deal with the alcohol first before it gets round to dumping glucose.... which may be too late. Alcohol + deliberate overdose of insulin is extremely dangerous. Diabetics have died from hypo after alcohol, even without deliberately overdosing. Your husband is not "sleeping better", he's unconscious.</p><p></p><p>Doctors often tell people they'll wake up if they go hypo, to reasure them, but in truth not everyone wakes up. (I accidentally "slept" through hypos for about 3 months once, got into a terrible state.) Sounds like your husband's GP was trying to be reassuring without realising just what's going on.</p><p></p><p>The only way is for your husband to be honest with his GP or specialist about what's really happening.</p><p></p><p><<Hugs>></p><p>Sue</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LittleSue, post: 107726, member: 6295"] Yes, hypos and hypers DO kill. Going "low" (around 4) won't kill him, but previous posts suggest your husband's been much lower than this and paramedics have had to rescue him? That's a different matter. Normally if you go hypo without waking up, the liver rescues you by dumping glucose into the bloodstream and you wake up with high sugar and a headache at breakfast time. But there's a limit, the liver needs to replenish itself before it can "dump" again, so may not be ready to cope with the next hypo. Also if there is alcohol in the body, the liver will deal with the alcohol first before it gets round to dumping glucose.... which may be too late. Alcohol + deliberate overdose of insulin is extremely dangerous. Diabetics have died from hypo after alcohol, even without deliberately overdosing. Your husband is not "sleeping better", he's unconscious. Doctors often tell people they'll wake up if they go hypo, to reasure them, but in truth not everyone wakes up. (I accidentally "slept" through hypos for about 3 months once, got into a terrible state.) Sounds like your husband's GP was trying to be reassuring without realising just what's going on. The only way is for your husband to be honest with his GP or specialist about what's really happening. <<Hugs>> Sue [/QUOTE]
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