hypo

Picture the scene - it's the hottest day of the year, and you're resting in the coolest bedroom in your house (where it's a mere 27 degrees). Because it's so hot you have removed all your clothes. You fall asleep, and wake up an hour and a half later to find you are having both a hot flush...

hey guys, So I'm still very new to all of this and did something that appears to be very stupid. I took my usual dose of 8 units of insulin (humalog) before my dinner, however my dinner was quite a lot of carbohydrate and I started to feel very sleepy (as my sugar was already high) so I...

I'm very newly diagnosed (10 days) and keep having these weird 'I'm going to faint' sensations, and I think I'm about to hypo but when I check my sugars they are either in range or too high. This has happened ever since my first hypo and it seems to be getting worse and last night I had a full...

Hi all, I'm a newbie and have come on here in search of support. My hubby has type 1 diabetes. We've lived with it since I first met him 25 years ago. The first 20 years haven't been too bad but it's been getting steadily worse. Control is impossible and night time hypos and ambulance call outs...

Hi guys. First time poster here. I was dxd 14 years ago and have been managing ok. Although my insulin doses were ridiculousy high. (75 Units of novorapid per meal) i was managing ok. I have recently moved my injection sites to just above my belly button instead of in my lower stomache...

Almost 7am and not a wink of sleep due to pain levels through the roof. Then, when I finally get that beaten into submission and start feeling sleepy, I get a flipping hypo. I was at 2.9 10 minutes ago, had some JBs, now I'm waiting to see if it works when I'd rather be sawing logs.

Hello! my name is Lauren, I'm new to the forum but I have had type one for 5 years since the age of 15. I have been advised to consult this forum for some advice. It would seem that I have lost my hypo symptoms. Usually I can tell that I'm hypo because of shaking/sweating but recently I've had...

Hi, I had an interesting trip to A&E over the weekend... Went out for dinner and calculated carbs and took insulin appropriately... About an hour after dinner and before bed measured bloods and got 4 which is a bit low for sleeping and slightly surprising. So time for 2 fig rolls... 3/4 hour...

Hello, I am type 1 and use lucozade tablets for hypo treatment. They are just the right size to fit in my pocket next to my phone and I carry them everywhere I go. Fortunately I don't have to eat them very often, my hypo awareness is pretty good, the problem is this means they go in and out of...

I have been type 1 for 29 years and always got lots of warning signs when I was hypo. At night I would wake up sweaty and having palpitations if I was low but this isn't happening any more, although I often have sweats at night as I am menopausal. Has anyone else noticed their hypo warning...

Hello. Hope everyone is well :-). I'm a serial lurker and don't post often but do have a question. I have had various bugs on and off since Christmas (the joys of having two young kids who bring many a germ home from nursery). I was sick at the weekend but that stopped Friday night. I am...

Hi all Having woken up at 6.30am this morning to a reading of 15.6 (I'm Type 2 but insulin dependent), I took 60 units of Levemir and 32 Novorapid. I then dropped to 8.1 and then still further to 7.2. I had lunch at 12.50pm which was a Boots sub with chicken and bacon and a pack of McCoys (high...

Basildon University Hospital has won a prestigious national award for raising awareness of a complication of diabetes. The hospital has been presented with the excellence award for “going above and beyond” and demonstrating “remarkable commitment” during Hypo Awareness Week last month. The...

I've recently been told by my surgeon, that more than 10% of people who've had a total pancreatectomy die of hypoglycaemia. So, us pancreasless folk need to be very careful.