Hypo - 1.9

[newbs]

On Saturday I had one of the worst hypos I have ever had. I tested 2 hrs after lunch, BG 7.7. Less than an hour later my vision almost went, tested BG and I was 1.9 😱. Luckily DH was with me and quickly got me things to drink/eat and I felt better quite quickly. Just a really weird hypo for no apparent reason. Oddly, since that hypo my hypo awareness has been around the low 4s, which is quite high for me.

 

[Northerner]

Wow, that is low! They are always worse when they drop quickly too - glad to hear that you had assistance on hand! In my 3.5 years I've had a handful of real, unexplained plummeters - can only really put it down to an absorbtion problem i.e. suddenly getting a lot of insulin absorbed from the injection site.

Hope you don't get another one like that for a very long time (or ever!) 🙂

 

[imtrying]

I sympathise....I was 1.8 on Friday night. 😱

Was being good and carb-counting....went out for a meal & injected after main meal but before dessert (which I was actually looking forward to having now I could inject for it properly), then I only ate 3 spoons of it as I felt guilty for eating badly when I'm trying to lose weight....didn't give the levels a second thought until the sweat started dripping off my head when I got home. When I tested I then started panicking as well as I knew all the insulin wouldn't have worked yet...so I drunk a whole bottle of lucozade..and an orange juice!

ended up ok in the end, but it is scary stuff.

 

[newbs]

I sympathise....I was 1.8 on Friday night. 😱

Was being good and carb-counting....went out for a meal & injected after main meal but before dessert (which I was actually looking forward to having now I could inject for it properly), then I only ate 3 spoons of it as I felt guilty for eating badly when I'm trying to lose weight....didn't give the levels a second thought until the sweat started dripping off my head when I got home. When I tested I then started panicking as well as I knew all the insulin wouldn't have worked yet...so I drunk a whole bottle of lucozade..and an orange juice!

ended up ok in the end, but it is scary stuff.

Oh no, it is scary when it happens, I guess we are lucky we are still conscious at those levels as many aren't. Glad we both came out of it ok!

 

[newbs]

Wow, that is low! They are always worse when they drop quickly too - glad to hear that you had assistance on hand! In my 3.5 years I've had a handful of real, unexplained plummeters - can only really put it down to an absorbtion problem i.e. suddenly getting a lot of insulin absorbed from the injection site.

Hope you don't get another one like that for a very long time (or ever!) 🙂

Thank you Northerner. I guess it must've been an aborption problem as it was so unexplained other than that. I have been having a few problems with sites recently so does make sense. Only had 3 hypos below 2 in 10 years thankfully.