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First hypo

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Craig Neil Brown

Craig Neil Brown

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So I experienced my first hypo today not a great!!..after a low reading before heading to work i took my dose of insulin with a view to tucking into some weetabix, then for whatever reason I completely forgot to eat And rushed to work. BIG MISTAKE!!
Upon arrival at work an hour later sat at my desk it hit me sweating, trembling, heart racing genuinely thought I was gonna collapse.
So my basic training kicked in then reached for the Lucozade tabs!

Completely my doing, in fact I'm a bit annoyed at this schoolboy error as I've been on top of my diet and gluco levels since being diagnosed.

Lesson learned!!!
 
Poor you, how are you feeling now? I have certainly made this mistake and expect others will come and share too. It is easily done and do hope your day gets better now.
 
It’s a good job we get these warning signs! 😉 I had my first one a week after being diagnosed out walking the dog. Got 3/4’s of the way home and felt my legs ache a little. Decided to make something to eat once I got home but by the time I did make it home I could barely stand up. I now know not to make that mistake again! Armed with glucose tabs everywhere I go now.
 
So sorry to hear this and I hope you are feeling better soon! As @New-journey says your not the only one to have done it and certainly wont be the last so please don't worry about it too much, I set alarms after I've injected so I know when that goes off it's time to eat, it really helps x
 
Mucker86 said:
It’s a good job we get these warning signs! 😉 I had my first one a week after being diagnosed out walking the dog. Got 3/4’s of the way home and felt my legs ache a little. Decided to make something to eat once I got home but by the time I did make it home I could barely stand up. I now know not to make that mistake again! Armed with glucose tabs everywhere I go now.
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Did you test? I always take bars with me as well as glucose tabs when I go for a long walk as can go low through exercise.
 
Oops.
Well you’ve just made your first foray into what I call the idiots club. Like others here I’ve been in it quite a few times myself. 😱:D
The best advise I can give you is , don’t do it again :D
One good thing that’s come out of it , well two really.
1) You now know your symptoms.
2) you now how to deal with them.

I hope you didn’t suffer too badly with the hypo hangover
 
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Did you test? I always take bars with me as well as glucose tabs when I go for a long walk as can go low through exercise.
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I can’t remember if I tested prior to walking the dog but I did test as soon as I got home. Definitely got a little kick up the backside to be more organised when out and about.
 
The thing is Craig and Mucker, when hypo our brains often aren’t working that well basically because it’s being starved, it can and often does make the wrong decisions.
One time I was down in the 2s, sat on the side of the bed feeling as though my brain was stuck in treacle with the other usual symptoms. Tested, set timer on Libre to test in 15 mins, it beeped, tested was even lower , set timer for 15 mins, t beeped was 2.2 set timer for another 15 mins when I thought I should I be doing something else , have you spotted it, yup I hadn’t thought of treating it. 😱
 
Glad you survived your first hypo. Don't be hard on yourself, we've all been there done that and bought the t-shirt.

As mentioned a hypo occurs when a brain is starved of it's fuel - glucose. You cut off fuel to the brain and it's a dice throw what happens.
Diabetes is a constant learning curve with knowledge often gained from first hand experience. You get the common, everyone has had, symptoms but there are not so common ones too.

The one you have experienced I've had a lot in the past but not for a while these days. For me it was most common when I was running around the playground as a schoolboy and more physically active which I'm not so much these days. Had lots of scraped knees from tumbles and can be frightening if you don't know what's happening.

Tingling of the lips and tongue and slurring of speech are others I've had more than a few times in the past. Though double vision I first had 12 years of living with diabetes and came as
a shock - thinking I had something bad going wrong with my eyes and was going to soon go blind - not realizing it was a hypo or the intelligence to assume it must be one.
As Ljc mentioned we do the right thing of finding out our glucose level but we forget the vital thing of treating it.

Another is the paranoia symptom when you are too far gone to sort yourself out and you think your families attempts to get sugar down your throat are them trying to kill you.
Cannot believe I thought it, but I did. I'm not someone who swears a lot but a hypo turns some into a candidate for Tourette's to make Gordon Ramsey flinch.I'm not proud about it
but I've had that one too - had late in life so not a foul mouthed schoolboy in case you were wondering. 😛

The list is long and who can tell if we've had all of them.

The diabetic motto has to mirror the boy scout one 'Be Prepared' and it looks like you've got that one down to a tee.
 
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