hypos

Hi All I hope you can help... My NHS trust does not offer pumps to adults, I’ve been very lucky in that the company my dad works for has agreed to fund a pump for me. Has anyone self funded a pump or knows how I go about doing this? Also any recommendations on pumps would be greatly...

PLEASE HELP... i had major difficulties with hypos during my pregnancy. It has got to a point I am now going through court with childrens services due to be accused of inducing the hypos. This is not true but I am struggling to prove this due to hospital staff (antenatal staff) saying they found...

Hello all, am type 1 (sorry don't know the shorthand yet!) and only diagnosed in Oct19. I'm having a weird problem. My glucose drops when I sit still at my desk at work, and then picks up if I get up and move around. I'm skirting round a hypo most of the afternoon but can shake it off if I take...

Hello! Been type 1 since early Oct 2019. Not recognising a hypo unless stood up or moving, so not driving at the moment. But now feeling shaky and ‘low’ all the time regardless of my blood glucose levels. Having more tests to see if there is another cause and why dx at age 51! Any words of...

Can you describe in any terms what it feels like to you as a diabetic when a hypos coming on and when was the last time you had a hypo? I find its kind of like a gentle increase in tiredness and sleepiness, it creeps up very slowly so the difference between one moment and the next is kind of...

Hi I am looking for examples of procedures that people use to make sure they work as safely as possible from home. I work from home and live alone. I've been Type 1 for 15 years and its well controlled, but if I have a serious hypo or get into trouble I need to have a safety net in place in...

Hello, I was diagnosed in February with Type 1 Diabetes, and am still learning how to deal with it best in different situations. I recently trialled and got onto the university netball team where I study which I am very happy with. However, I wanted to ask if anyone had any advice to dealing...

Hello everyone This is a bit of a strange one, but hopefully I'm not on my own here. And before I start let me state that this doesn't happen to me all the time, it happens in phases. Here goes.... Has anyone ever felt they might at times be slightly, I'll use the word addicted but I don't...

I've been having a lot of these lately - you know the ones I mean, where you treat a hypo, test 15 minutes later and find you're still hypo, so you wait a bit and test again and you're still hypo so you have some more glucose or fruit juice or whatever and wait a bit and so on and by the time...

Hi I have been a Type 1 diabetic since 1996. I went into hospital on Nov 25th 2016 for what I was told was a ‘routine’ removal of a minor cancerous tumour on my kidney. That was performed successfully. However, while in the recovery room, I had the first of two cardiac arrests and I suffered...

Last year I took part in a research programme to help ADULTS with very poor hypo awareness and they now have funding to trial this programme in London, Sheffield and Bournemouth and are seeking participants with type 1 diabetes who need help in restoring hypo awareness. It involves attending...

Hello, I'm a new insulin user. I've had 3 hypos so far, nothing horrendous. A few days ago the usual symptoms came on. For me these are suddenly feeling ravenously hungry, jelly legs, weakness, feeling hot and my mind going haywire, meh lets just say the usual hehe. It was half an hour before...

I woke in the early hours today feeling really weird, I couldn't get up and started screaming for help. Little bother appeared just as I started fitting so he tells me. He called 999, did BG test which he says was 1.4 and I threw up on his shoes. Then I got carted off to Raigmore because the...