shiv
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
...and I think it was slightly d related.
So I'm helping one of the junior sisters with a patient (he was putting a new stoma bag on her stoma and I was suctioning off any oozy stuff coming out of it, just fyi). After a while I got that "uh oh, I'm low" feeling, but I knew that I was only going to be there for a couple more minutes so I decided to stick it out and wait (I was literally standing there holding a suction device).
Next thing I know, I felt incredibly sick, so I took some deep breaths...then I got dizzy. I was still trying to act okay at this point then it all became a bit *too* much so I said to Joel, the jnr sister, "I feel really dizzy". He told me to sit down and I promptly slid down the patient's locker and onto the floor. My eyesight was gone at this point (you know when you press on your eyelids and you see shapes and stars? Like that) and I landed with a thump.
Next thing I know another jnr sister comes running in with the testing kit, I stick out a hand and she tests at 3.1. Another nurse has spotted it was me on the floor so has come over with some lucozade.
Took me a minute to stop shaking/get a clear mind and be able to stand up, the jnr sister made me hold her arm all the way to the staff room in case I fell over haha. I was okay, just low then!
Took about 20 mins for my BGs to get above 5 (that took 3 cups of lucozade), I had a banana and put a temp basal of 40% on - looks like I got it just right as after 2 hours I was 5.4.
I think all that happened was it got too hot, and combined with the hypo, my body decided to take its own way out! I've never ever fainted or even felt faint before so it was all a bit of a shock at the time!
So I'm helping one of the junior sisters with a patient (he was putting a new stoma bag on her stoma and I was suctioning off any oozy stuff coming out of it, just fyi). After a while I got that "uh oh, I'm low" feeling, but I knew that I was only going to be there for a couple more minutes so I decided to stick it out and wait (I was literally standing there holding a suction device).
Next thing I know, I felt incredibly sick, so I took some deep breaths...then I got dizzy. I was still trying to act okay at this point then it all became a bit *too* much so I said to Joel, the jnr sister, "I feel really dizzy". He told me to sit down and I promptly slid down the patient's locker and onto the floor. My eyesight was gone at this point (you know when you press on your eyelids and you see shapes and stars? Like that) and I landed with a thump.
Next thing I know another jnr sister comes running in with the testing kit, I stick out a hand and she tests at 3.1. Another nurse has spotted it was me on the floor so has come over with some lucozade.
Took me a minute to stop shaking/get a clear mind and be able to stand up, the jnr sister made me hold her arm all the way to the staff room in case I fell over haha. I was okay, just low then!
Took about 20 mins for my BGs to get above 5 (that took 3 cups of lucozade), I had a banana and put a temp basal of 40% on - looks like I got it just right as after 2 hours I was 5.4.
I think all that happened was it got too hot, and combined with the hypo, my body decided to take its own way out! I've never ever fainted or even felt faint before so it was all a bit of a shock at the time!
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I guess we can feel faint for other reasons and maybe the 3.1 was a bit of a red herring? Had you eaten recently? Or maybe, fr some reason, your levels decided to dive suddenly and it was the speed of the drop that...er...dropped you?
