Bizarre Hypo thoughts!

[hyper-Suze]

Ok so from the time this thread has registered, you'll all see its the early hours!

I just HAD to check in and see the latest posts as I half woke up, sweating and have random, bizarre thoughts, my mind was trying to guess who was the last person to post. My mind couldn't decide if it was Copepod, Vicsetter, Robster or myself! I eventually realised after lying there for almost 10mins that it was a hypo and tested at 2.6

Does this perhaps mean I have been logging onto this forum far too often recently or does anyone else have crazy mindboggling thoughts while hypo-ing?

A few weeks ago, I was varnishing/staining some bedside drawers prior to bedtime, woke up in a hypo and was convinced I was covered in varnish(!), I lay there trying to figure out a way to get out of bed without making a mess of the varnish.

Another one was I couldn't figure out whether the Sylvanian Family toys were made/manufactured before a Transylvanian family(real people) were around! This is a no brainer when the mind is sane but while hypo-ing I really couldn't figure it out.

...Right now that I have checked in, satified my mind on who last posted, I'm off back to sleepsville!

 

[robert@fm]

I suspect this may be the Hotel California of web forums -- you can log off any time you want, but you can never leave. 😛 😉

I'm not surprised about bizzare thoughts during a hypo, since after all at such times the brain is running out of fuel. One of my worst times for bizarre thoughts was about 15 years before I was diagnosed, and although of course my BG wasn't tested that day, I suspect I was probably hypo as I had many of the symptoms. (I didn't eat all day because it was very hot and I had no appetite, and in the middle of the day I fainted for the only time in my life I can remember; in the evening I went to a show which ended with a swirling-lights effect which made me feel dizzy, but the dizziness didn't wear off when the show ended, and was still with me an hour or so later when I got home; so I made and downed two inch-thick salad sarnies, and felt much better after I did.)

 

[vince13]

I'm not sure I have hypo thoughts as such but I just get the feeling that I MUST get anything I'm doing when I feel hypo done, before treating the hypo. It doesn't matter if it's hoovering, shopping or whatever, it just seems terribly important to get the job in hand finished even though I know I should stop and treat the hypo. I get really ratty if my husband tries to point this out to me too !

 

[Northerner]

I'm not sure I have hypo thoughts as such but I just get the feeling that I MUST get anything I'm doing when I feel hypo done, before treating the hypo. It doesn't matter if it's hoovering, shopping or whatever, it just seems terribly important to get the job in hand finished even though I know I should stop and treat the hypo. I get really ratty if my husband tries to point this out to me too !

I'm the same - I once tried to complete filling in a form despite the fact I knew I was hypo, had all the symptoms and could see my handwriting had become shocking! I eventually gave in and tested at 1.7! 😱 I also have a habit if dithering over which flavour of jelly baby to eat - should I have the green ones I don't really like so there will be more of the nice ones remaining once all the green ones are gone, or should I go for one of my favourite flavours, taking advantage of the low to enjoy a nice treat? 🙂

 

[vince13]

That's nothing to do with having a hypo - that's just being a MAN !

(OK - now mod. that for sexist remarks....) 😱

 

[squidge63]

I was chopping an onion and to me I was fine, my friend came into the kitchen and saw me shaking like a leaf and tried to tell me to stop, but I wouldn't listen and carried on trying to chop the onion. All she could see was my fingers ending up getting chopped up instead. Eventually I gave in or she took the knife from me, I can't remember which.

A few weeks ago I was playing a game on my phone before I go to sleep, I knew I was hypo as I felt sick, was shaky and had palpitations but I had to finish the game even though I knew I was hypo. Everytime common sense sort of said to me come on sort yourself out, my hypo brain said in a minute finish the game first.. eventually the sickness and palpitations made me go get something.

 

[Copepod]

I've heard many people mention the tendency of people in a hypoglycaemic state to complete the task they are doing instead of eating, but have never experienced it myslef, which I put down to the fact I always have some sweets within reach - in pockets if I'm wearing trousers / shorts, in a handbag if wearing dress / skirt without jacket pockets (very rare situation!), in bumbag hung from bedframe at home or on bedside table or on floor if staying in hotel / friend's house, by my head in tent. No-one has to encourage me to eat - and the one time my partner tried to make me wake up properly and co-operate by ingesting Hypo Stop, he tried it and realised why I was objecting and handed me some of my sweets instead. I'd never used it in the few years since diagnosis and the slightly fewer years since we got together, so I removed Hypo Stop so he'd never try again - and we're still together some 10 years after the incident!

 

[robert@fm]

I was chopping an onion and to me I was fine, my friend came into the kitchen and saw me shaking like a leaf and tried to tell me to stop, but I wouldn't listen and carried on trying to chop the onion. All she could see was my fingers ending up getting chopped up instead. Eventually I gave in or she took the knife from me, I can't remember which.

Even when not hypo, I hate having to chop onions -- in onion there is strength. 😱 😉

 

[hyper-Suze]

Ah so that would make more sense, my hypo has obviously roused me to some degree but mid dream and I am determined to complete the dream before waking properly!

Glad its not just me but still cant believe I logged on at half 4 to satisfy my hypo-thoughts! Oh dear!

Have had a hypo where I was 0.6🙂eek🙂 and yes, my brain was so staved of energy that I was hallucinating and interperated the 3 ambulance men at my bed as burgulars/intruders who had come to, well do very horrid things! I then saw my o/h at the doorway and started questioning him in an attempt to catch him out (how long we'd be dating, our song, where my bro went to college!)

Just so glad I don't have nightmare hypos like that anymore!

 

[Northerner]

Oh my Suze, that must have been scary for you! 😱 And him no doubt, in case he got any of the questions wrong! 😉

 

[hyper-Suze]

Ha ha, I think it was scary for the paramedics too, I start to be violent with the one trying to shove Gluco-Gel in my mouth! I thought he was trying to poison me!

Yep, Rick deffo had to answer and act quick during my interrogation! I was asking questions as objects were moving from one side of the room to the next, things like picture frames and my water glass, I had to make sure it was real and not a dream!

The second 'paramedic assisted' hypo I had wasn;t too bad as I realised what was going on as I came round but I think I insulted the one chap as I was convinced he was Heston Blumental!!!!! Like a Mitchin starred chef would be in my house in Ironbridge!!!!!

 

[Northerner]

...The second 'paramedic assisted' hypo I had wasn;t too bad as I realised what was going on as I came round but I think I insulted the one chap as I was convinced he was Heston Blumental!!!!! Like a Mitchin starred chef would be in my house in Ironbridge!!!!!

Perhaps he's a part-time paramedic when the restaurant is shut? 😉

 

[hyper-Suze]

In that case, he should have rustled up something for me after treating me, something carb based to keep my levels up, or maybe he didn't carry his supply of liquid nitrogen with him!!!!

Instead I had to put up with Ricks cooking!!!! 😱

 

[xxlou_lxx]

hyper-Suze, you are not alone, was reading your posts thinking to myself THAT SOUNDS LIKE ME!!!! haha I did the whole paramedic poisoining thing, only i was in a world of black (guess i was only coming around) and the image in my head was someone tipping a paint pot sized bucket into my mouth of wat i could only fathom at the time as some gross thick wallpaper paste, thought process was totally strange!! lol anyway turned out to be a skinny little tube of hypo stop! 🙄 another time I managed to convince my sister (not long ago) that i was semi hypo like i was lucid one minute answering questions like a civil person then the next id be clearly in hypo "mode" was like I had a split personality! well what im told anyway! 😱

 

[Natalie123]

Yep, I have had some very strange thoughts whilst hypo. There was one time when I woke up at 3am convinced that there were assasins camping outside my house trying to kill me and my boyfriend! I was creeping around the house with a torch for quite sometime. Then I had to switch on al the lights in the house and wouldn't go back to sleep without them on. It was terrifying.

There was another incident (according to my Mum) when I made up a new language whilst insisting on switching on all the lights in the middle of the night and claiming that the hall light was a snake!

 

[KateXXXXXX]

We have had some REALLY bizarre thoughts, obsessions, and reactions to hypos from Himself! He spent ages trying to take a blood reading with a lump of cheese once! I'm just waiting to see what the GMNT springs on us...

Don't fret about it: the paramedics get it all the time, and none of the ones I've had to help us have done anything other than laugh it off once Himself was back to normal. I just give them tea and bikkies while we wait for things to settle down and BG's to get above 4.

 

[AlisonM]

There was the time I was found standing in the middle of the living room with my coat on (nothing else, just the coat) insisting I was going to work, I couldn't understand why my brother wouldn't let me go. The ambulance folk turned up and tested me at 1.7. The other one, just a few weeks ago was on a drive back from Aberdeen with OH when I'm told I insisted the car was full of ants. I can't recall how low I got then, but had no memory of that happening. He only told me about it the other day when we were talking about what a nightmare that day was for him. He hadn't seen me in that state before and it really scared him.

My worst hypo was quite recent when wee bro found me on the floor, fitting. I don't remember much about that day at all, it's almost a complete blank. I'm told I was 1.5 when found and that's my record so far. I do recall waking up in hospital and being convinced I was dying. I couldn't see straight and there were these bleeping machines nearby. It was quite some time before I realised they weren't attached to me but to the lady in the next cubicle who'd had a heart attack and was waiting for space in ICU. All I was attached to was a drip feed for the copious amounts of glucose I needed to raise my BGs.

 

[hyper-Suze]

Thanks girlies! So so so glad you have similar tales to me, the tales certainly make great and humourous conversations!

I checked the forum while at the gym (of course as a gym instructor, I do not endorse using mobiles while on the equipment!!) but I did and I realised I was chuckling and smiling to myself a bit more than looked normal!!!
But we can all have a good chuckle and smile at everyones stories on here as it has happened to most of us! In fact we probably find it funnier than others because we've been there!

Yes luckily the paramedics have found the funny side, so funny, the second time they stayed with me for 2half hours! We were in the middle of decourating(wall paper stripped and everything) and I was trying to convince them that we weren't squatters!!!

Lou - when you had your bad fit similar to mine, what was your levels upon the paramedics arrival? Did they ever tell you? I have found that the lower my levels got, the darker, more sinister the hypo-nightmares were!

Alison - I'd be sooooo embarassed if my bro found me with just my coat on!!!!!!!