Oh 'eck!
Katie really scared me the other day - she told me she sometimes wakes up in the night thinking she may be hypo then goes straight back to sleep again 😱
Sleep
unfortunately, is quite a natural thing to want to do when your sugars - and therefore energy - is low. The body is a wonderful, yet mad as biscuits thing. As mentioned your liver comes to the rescue when you drop below 3'ish but needs a refill to work again. Bear in mind that Kate is fairly new to the game and it's hard enough for anyone, let alone a wee lass, to get their heads around but with time she'll start picking up the pointers and benefits of acting on them. The fact you worry (in my book) is a good thing... Shows you're a decent mam!
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On occasion I've put myself through an "endurance test" while under the influence of a hypo, trying to see how long I can go with the symptoms before it's too much and I have to have sugar... 😱
I've tried a similar thing but for slightly different reasons... If I do a test and I'm 3 or under I'll do one every 15 minutes to see if I actually get any sensation of hypo. When it drops below 2 I cut my losses and bite the heads off a jelly baby or 2. So far it's shown nothing. A slight worry if anything but that's more than likely down to the impending risk of sparking out!
I find my hypo symptoms are less 'hypo' symptoms and more 'dropping BG' symptoms.
So actually, despite pumping supposedly having the opposite effect, my hypo symptoms have faded.
These drop warnings were one of the last things I stopped having. I'm in the pipeline for pump training largely for the reasons you say. To level off and hopefully regain symptoms of hypo. I'm glad you mentioned this here so I can have a chin wag about it when I go to get
strung up as my old PE teacher used to say!
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Lastly. (Bet you can tell my eyes are on the up. Heheh)...
A lot of people here mention warning signs of hypo, be it shaky legs, buzzing lips and a 101 other signs (All of which I seem to get sweet Fanny Adams of). These are referred to by many as primary signs... Signs you spot yourself. But what about external warnings?
I'm just wondering if anyone has a problem with these showing. The reason I ask is that a good few years ago (between '93 and 2000) I worked in a hospital pharmacy and had a few real stinkers.
Everyone knew of my diabetes including a lot of nurses, doctors, porters. Not just in my own department but throughout the hospital. Even so I'd be wandering round for 2 or 3 hours doing a 15 minute ward run, locking the controlled drugs keys inside their own cabinet on another ward, but no-one noticed anything odd. It'd take the gaffer to give me a rollocking for skiving and me telling her to... Go away before anyone would pick up. Even then a mate of mine who worked there and I'd known for yonks would have to step in then.
My mam and dad struggle as well and pick on things that aren't signs - just in case - which I appreciate, but can be a tad annoying.
Even at the DAFNE course a few weeks back, I'd dropped through the floor and neither of the nurses
or the roomful of diabetics had noticed. I got home and tested and was 1.7 but the entire afternoon had gone. I only realised how much of the afternoon had gone when we were in the next days session and I didn't have a clue what anyone was talking about and didn't remember how I'd got home... Not ideal!
Well... Nearly 1 1/2 hours typing and I can still see OK... Top banana!!!
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