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Hypo stories

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My oddest one was in the early days as told by my brother. The dog started barking in the night and bro eventually got out of bed to find me in the sitting room with my coat on. When he enquired I apparently told him I was going to work, at 3am in nothing but my coat. 😱 A quick call to NHS24 and they had him testing my BGs which were 1.7.

The scariest was a trip to Aberdeen not long after I started on the Byetta.

The real fun began on the way home, there was an accident on the A96 and we sat there for a couple of hours waiting for 'them' to open the road before himself decided to try some of the back roads. Bad Idea, very, very Bad Idea, we ended up on the infamous **** Bridge to Tomintoul road! Bad idea because in the meantime it had started snowing and the road was very icy. We left Aberdeen at 2.30pm and didn't get home last night till about 11.30pm. Of course this is the Highlands and, at this time of year, we should be grateful we made it home on the same day we left.

I had no food with me because we thought we'd be home by tea time and, like a fool, took my evening injection anyway and ended up having a major hypo and throwing up at the road side. I now have a new record for hypos of 1.5. I feel like death warmed up today and very shaky, I woke up to a BG of 3.9 and am now 5.4 after two slices of toast.
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Hi,

A few years ago possibly 4 or 5 i went out to Asda, had a cheese salad (cheese, lettuce, tomatoes etc), did a full injection of my QA, maybe 10u as a guess, think i was on Novorapid for QA & Insulatard for BI at the time, then several hours later i had a VERY bad hypo, falling about, banging my head against the wall in the bathroom even turned into a hamster throwing demon 😱 & threw my daughter's hamster across the room! I was in hospital for an overnight stay. This thread can be seen in the General Message Board - 10-10-2011 @ 03:10pm.

I once went through a stage where i was having hypos in a morning & tended to get very aggressive and adament that I was fine when my husband kept trying to "pour" lucozade down my neck.

I've also had them where i laugh hysterically.
 
My husband that a diagnosis of Type 1 automatically turns people into liars. Immediately. (Can happen to T2's but slower onset because not usually on insulin from Day 1)

Why?

Because when you say to a T1 diabetic 'Are you alright? Do you think you'd better do a test/' they invariably answer 'I'm FINE!' And that's when you know they certainly aren't ......
 
I have had so many hypos...

The first one was when I was 7. I had no idea what was happening and it was really scary. I was staying with my aunt and she had no idea what to do either. The carpet was moving and the floor was saying. I was very confused but I eventually remembered my doctor telling me that if I ever felt funny I should eat a few biscuits. So I crawled around after my aunt chanting, 'biscuits...biscuits...' and she gave me some. So scary!

Another time, which I don't remember, I passed out on the sofa and my mum called my neighbour. When I came around I punched her (an older lady) in the face (I was 9!) and I also threw a teapot at her. Way to be grateful...

Another time when I was about 10 I passed out as I was eating lunch at school, but as I went I flipped the flip-top table over and everyone's lunches went flying. I don't remember that either.

When I was packing up to go to America I didn't go to bed until about 5am and when I tested my blood it was 1.5, which I think is the lowest I have ever been, but I felt fine, just really cold and jittery like you do when you're tired sometimes. I ran downstairs and shouted my reading to my mum like I was proud of it :/

Have had a few where I have been mega agressive: 'I'm FINE!' etc. My poor friends! One of them tipped a bowl of sugar over me because I was annoying her so much with my refusing to eat!

And now I have very few, thank goodness 🙂
 
You do some weired things when on the bottom dont you ! I think u go into servival mode (hence hitting your neibourgh). Strength of many brains of non comes to mind ! 😉
 
whiskysmum said:
Hi,

A few years ago possibly 4 or 5 i went out to Asda, had a cheese salad (cheese, lettuce, tomatoes etc), did a full injection of my QA, maybe 10u as a guess, think i was on Novorapid for QA & Insulatard for BI at the time, then several hours later i had a VERY bad hypo, falling about, banging my head against the wall in the bathroom even turned into a hamster throwing demon 😱 & threw my daughter's hamster across the room! I was in hospital for an overnight stay. This thread can be seen in the General Message Board - 10-10-2011 @ 03:10pm.

I once went through a stage where i was having hypos in a morning & tended to get very aggressive and adament that I was fine when my husband kept trying to "pour" lucozade down my neck.

I've also had them where i laugh hysterically.
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Wooops!

You may have read the above post which i posted on 09-11-2011, 01:43 PM.

Early this am (about 0700am when i checked on my meter before) i had a very bad hypo. Apparently i was jerking about in bed, my hubby said he somehow managed to roll me out of bed, fed me the usual, some jelly babies, i "walked" into the bathroom & sat on the toilet in the pitch black, my hubby was asking me if i'd done a test to which i started bursting out into fits of laughter, i woke the whole household (daughter & son) up, then i shouted to my hubby to go & get me a cheese sandwich, which he very kindly did 🙂.
When i checked my meter before my bs was 2.8 and yet i've had hypos at this level many a time before and always been fully capabable :confused:. Also when i checked my meter i'd done several or should i say lots of tests at the time of my hypo, no wonder my finger is sore today, lol.
I had a headache before but i'm glad to say i feel much better now 🙂 I had porridge for brekkie and now i'm off to get some lunch.
 
I'm glad you are OK - but please tell us - how is the hamster?
 
oh no! Glad there were people there to help you, and glad you're not feeling the after affects today!!

just as well there were no hamsters! 😱
 
trophywench said:
I'm glad you are OK - but please tell us - how is the hamster?
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Awww thank you! Sadly Claire's hamster died a few years ago, so the hamster throwing demon will not be striking again, lol, i don't think i could manage to throw a west highland terrier, lol.
 
imtrying said:
oh no! Glad there were people there to help you, and glad you're not feeling the after affects today!!

just as well there were no hamsters! 😱
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My thoughts are the same ie the kind hubby & also the hamster!
 
I know, they are deceptively small looking aren't they? (Westies LOL)
 
Suggestion to the mods?

There are three hypo-stories threads on these boards; how about merging them?

The other two are this one (the one to which I personally contributed) and this one.
 
Er, Alan, you still haven't merged the latest thread into the other two. 😛
 
He he some of these made me laugh a lot! Thanks for directing me here Robert!

Mine was quite a recent one. I had fallen asleep on the sofa and it was around 6:30 in the morning. I was having a really weird dream about helping my cousin and uncle move furniture around there living room and my cousin was winding me up. Then I started trying to eat the armchair I was supposed to be moving! Which led him to wind me up even more than at the top of my lungs I shouted out "SHUT THE BLEEP UP!"
I woke myself up and my mum who came running in to the room wondering what the hell was going on. I then shouted "TELL TOMMY TO SHUT THE BLEEP UP"
She then tried to point out to me Tommy wasn't there and maybe I should do a BM.
The the realization hit me that I had actually shouted so loud that most of my neighbors had probably heard the whole thing 😱 😱
They kept giving me very disproving looks for a couple of weeks after! LOL
 
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