Fake Hypo?? =S

[becky_boo]

Ok so last night I was at work (in a bar so keeps me quite active) and I keept feeling like I was having a bad hypo, but my blood sugar never went below 6.7!?!?!? Is it possiable to have fake hypos? lol I felt so bad with it!

Bekki

 

[m1dnc]

Ok so last night I was at work (in a bar so keeps me quite active) and I keept feeling like I was having a bad hypo, but my blood sugar never went below 6.7!?!?!? Is it possiable to have fake hypos? lol I felt so bad with it!

Bekki

Hi Bekki. How many times did you test? Although our meters are reasonably accurate most of the time, they can give bonkers results occasionally. About one in a thousand times, according to an FDA meeting report I read recently - which equates to once or twice a year for those who test 4 or 5 times a day.

Also the same report recorded that the biggest source of meter system inaccuracy was failing to wash (and dry) our hands properly before testing.

 

[jalapino]

Poor you bekki....hope you feel better today xxx

 

[Tina63]

Just a thought, did you wash your hands first? Working in a bar with sweet sticky drinks, you could have had some Coke for example on your fingers when tested and got a false higher figure than you should have?

 

[trophywench]

Or beer. Or even fruit, depends what sort of bar it is, but orange skins are a mare for it. Oddly, not maraschino cherries.

How do you wash up? - if you put the empties in a sink of water, water could be sweet if people don't empty em properly before they chuck em in. Gross ......

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Hi Becki

Depends what your hypo symptoms were I guess. For me the 'early' ones are all too easy to mistake for something else:

hunger (useless!)
slight feeling of being ill at ease (ditto)
light headedness (happens at other times too)
extreme tiredness (ditto)
slightly flickery vision (usually pretty certain, but sometimes...)

Part of it (for me anyway) also seems to do with whether or not I'm half expecting one - as you might have been working in a bar. The ones I have usually got wrong in the past involve a combination of hunnger and something else. Sometimes I'm just hungry!

Bottom line - on a good few occasions I've been out somewhere, felt a bit like I was dippin but not had a meter handy, ate some Fruit Pastilles or whatever 'just in case' and tested a short while later only to find I've made myself high 🙄

 

[MaryPlain]

The only time this has happened to me was on a plane once just as we were landing. I felt very woozy indeed and tested at 6. Turns out I was feeling faint and just needed to put my head between my knees.

 

[becky_boo]

Hiya, yeah i always wash and dry my hands before I do it, give them a good old scrub, also have my own tissues that i use to dry my hands so nothing from the bar can "spill" on them or anything. I test quite alot where i am still in the honeymoon period, but my symptoms are normally tiredness and i get the shakes and blurred vision. I duno I`m seeing my diabetic nurse on wednesdays o i`ll ask her about it! =S

 

[Monica]

Yes, you can have Fake hypos. You are still new to diabetes and in the honeymoon phase. So if you've been running a little high for a while and then have a sudden drop, it can make you feel hypo, even though you're not