So angry

[Spireite72]

I was on Facebook and a lady asked what is a hypo. So I answered her that a hypo is when your BGL drops below 4.0. The standard definition of a hypo. Another lady accused me af scare mongering( not sure how passing on the information I gave is scare mongering) then gave a lecture about Normal people’s BGL and it’s Normal to drop below 4.0 and you just need to eat some thing( the NORMAL reality got my back up) I am normal I just have diabetes. Apparently if your not on insulin it’s not a proper hypo. I need to see a hypo before scaring people.(still not sure how the information I gave is scaring people). I explained to her I am a normal perso with diabetes and I’m on insulin and have had 3 hypos in 2 weeks. She seems to have disappeared and gone very quiet. First time I’ve let anyone get to me like that in a long time.

 

[Northerner]

Facebook is full of ignorance, so don't let it get to you. Technically, it's true that a person not on on insulin or other medication that can cause blood sugar levels to fall can drop to around 3.3 mmol/l, at which point their body's mechanisms will click in to prompt the liver to produce more glucose to raise the level slightly (this is achieved by the alpha cells of the pancreas producing glucagon, which stimulates the liver to release glucose - the opposite of the beta cells, which produce insulin). It is also possible in extreme cases for a person without diabetes to drop below 3.3 mmol/l e.g. during an extreme endurance event where their liver might actually be unable to produce sufficient glucose to raise levels ( I remember reading that this happened to Paula Radcliffe once, also Sir Ranulph Fiennes). There's also a condition called 'reactive hypoglycaemia' where the levels drop low and the body isn't quick enough to respond with extra glucose.

The reason why we choose 4.0 mmol/l as the 'floor' is because meters simply aren't that accurate and it allows us a margin of error to act quickly 🙂

 

[Ljc]

In my teens I had a non D boyfriend who had hypo’s if he didn’t eat regularly. The first I knew of it was when he nearly passed out one day.

 

[Ljc]

Their is an awful lot of misinformed people out there, their are also some people who seem to take great delight in having a go at others just because they can.

 

[Emmakeets]

I was once asked by the HR Manager at a previous job what the difference is between a hypo and a panic attack.. there are some rather ignorant people in the world! Try not to let it get to you.

 

[Spireite72]

Their is an awful lot of misinformed people out there, their are also some people who seem to take great delight in having a go at others just because they can.

So far I’ve been told “you only have diabetes not the end of the world”When explaining to some one about my hypo. “Well at least you get to eat sweets” and then this to day. Some of my heart meds can make me moody and short tempered. I’m normally laid back don’t let things get to me. Oh and I forgot the best one do you have the bad type or the good one.

 

[kentish maid]

“you only have diabetes not the end of the world”

I got that, after all it is only type 2, not the 'dangerous' one !!!!!!!

 

[grovesy]

I was once asked by the HR Manager at a previous job what the difference is between a hypo and a panic attack.. there are some rather ignorant people in the world! Try not to let it get to you.

When I was on Gliclazide I had panic symptoms sitting at home and when I took my bloods I was having a hypo. I have also had migraine symptoms with a hypo too!

 

[Amigo]

I was on Facebook and a lady asked what is a hypo. So I answered her that a hypo is when your BGL drops below 4.0. The standard definition of a hypo. Another lady accused me af scare mongering( not sure how passing on the information I gave is scare mongering) then gave a lecture about Normal people’s BGL and it’s Normal to drop below 4.0 and you just need to eat some thing( the NORMAL reality got my back up) I am normal I just have diabetes. Apparently if your not on insulin it’s not a proper hypo. I need to see a hypo before scaring people.(still not sure how the information I gave is scaring people). I explained to her I am a normal perso with diabetes and I’m on insulin and have had 3 hypos in 2 weeks. She seems to have disappeared and gone very quiet. First time I’ve let anyone get to me like that in a long time.

Why would you even begin to explain anything to a keyboard warrior with more time than sense Spireite?

Like they say;

Facebook - wasting lives and creating unnecessary drama since 2004! 🙄

I’d have been saying, ‘and to think I’ve consulted specialists when I could have come straight to you for medical expertise!’

You’ve only got diabetes, these people have incurable stupidity and a bloody keyboard!

 

[Sally71]

I think a lot of people think it's all a big fuss about nothing, until they see my daughter having a nasty hypo that doesn't come straight back up again after one dose of glucose (the ones that take an hour to recover from, thankfully these are rare but make daughter slump right down and start talking a complete load of nonsense) and then they suddenly panic! Because perhaps then they realise that it isn't a fuss about nothing!

Although she had one of these in the library at school once, a teaching assistant was working there with three children with learning difficulties, but they were the other side of the bookcases from us and it sounded like they were getting on with things no problem so I didn't worry. After I eventually managed to get daughter back to her classroom and made sure the teacher understood what to do if she relapsed, I went back to the office and the receptionist gave me a message from the TA asking why couldn't I have taken her to the medical room, because we had "ruined" her lesson! Er... if she'd actually bothered to ask me there and then she'd have seen that daughter could barely sit up, never mind walk anywhere, and she's a bit big for me to carry anywhere these days (she's almost as tall as I am!). So 20 mins of the TA not being able to use the whole library for her lesson is more important than a child avoiding a trip in an ambulance, is it?? 😡😡

I don't do Facebook, precisely because I don't want to have to deal with any more idiots than we meet in real life! (Which thankfully so far hasn't been many, you can't avoid them completely though)

 

[Grannylorraine]

I got that, after all it is only type 2, not the 'dangerous' one !!!!!!!

I have had that exact some thing said to me. People are ignorant, but then I suppose I was until I was diagnosed, but I am sure I didn't speak to people like that.

 

[Spireite72]

Why would you even begin to explain anything to a keyboard warrior with more time than sense Spireite?

Like they say;

Facebook - wasting lives and creating unnecessary drama since 2004! 🙄

I’d have been saying, ‘and to think I’ve consulted specialists when I could have come straight to you for medical expertise!’

You’ve only got diabetes, these people have incurable stupidity and a bloody keyboard!

That’s made me laugh thank you

 

[Vince_UK]

Ignorance is bliss so they say, leave people like that to exist in their blissfull state until perhaps D bites them well and truly in the butt.

 

[Vince_UK]

As for facebook,??? Wouldn't touch it with a 30 meter barge pole.
Never had an account and never will
@Amigo sums it up perfectly

 

[Bubbsie]

So far I’ve been told “you only have diabetes not the end of the world”When explaining to some one about my hypo. “Well at least you get to eat sweets” and then this to day. Some of my heart meds can make me moody and short tempered. I’m normally laid back don’t let things get to me. Oh and I forgot the best one do you have the bad type or the good one.

Spiriette if you think back to before your diagnosis...did you know much about it... type 2 diabetes?...I hadn't got a clue prior to my diagnosis what it was...how it affected people...how it would affect me...I wasn't sure about the differences between T1 & T2...those comments from your colleagues & your social media contacts are from ignorance...not in the literal sense... they are uninformed...many of our health care professionals are unaware of the full effects of T2...know so little about it...some believe we can't have hypos (we know that's not right) … so you may have to give the 'lay folk' some leeway here...rather than view them as stupid...or ignorant...they just don't know anything about it....you could educate them on the finer points of T2...that we're not all fat & lazy...that it's not our fault...how it can be genetic ...that diabetes is serious whether type1...type2...or type 3...if they are rude or insulting ignore them...but if they genuinely know nothing about our condition...then tell them what is is...what is does...and how it can be managed....who knows you may teach them something useful😉.

 

[miguel81]

Amongst a group of friends one evening, round his and his partners place for dinner, I felt unwell, felt a hypo coming on, so I sat in a corner by myself and had a few jelly babies. He came over to me and said 'what's the matter, you are very quiet, I explained that I thought a hypo was coming on so I have been eating a few sweets to try and ward it off. Oh, the diabetes thing is it, he said, well it's your own fault so have a quick coma and come back to the rest of us. When I felt better I quietly left, no fuss. 10 years later he was diagnosed with type !, he's a lot more understanding now.

 

[Bubbsie]

Amongst a group of friends one evening, round his and his partners place for dinner, I felt unwell, felt a hypo coming on, so I sat in a corner by myself and had a few jelly babies. He came over to me and said 'what's the matter, you are very quiet, I explained that I thought a hypo was coming on so I have been eating a few sweets to try and ward it off. Oh, the diabetes thing is it, he said, well it's your own fault so have a quick coma and come back to the rest of us. When I felt better I quietly left, no fuss. 10 years later he was diagnosed with type !, he's a lot more understanding now.

The best way to handle it Michael.

 

[Sally71]

I don't mind people asking questions if they are genuinely interested and are trying to learn about it, I'm happy to help them then, after all we all had to learn too. It's the ones who think they know it all when they clearly don't, and won't listen when you try to explain, who are the annoying ones.

 

[Beck S]

I haven't really told anyone about it, only my close friends and work colleagues, mostly because I don't want to talk about it and because I don't want people to say stuff to me. But only now I realise how many people are either mis-informed or under-informed about it so I understand where some people's view points come from, even if I don't agree.

 

[Martin Canty]

Apparently if your not on insulin it’s not a proper hypo.

Oh, my 2.3 was not a proper Hypo..... Silly me!!!!